Birthday week

Back at work now after a lovely 5 days of birthday celebrations and pootling around.  Had a really relaxing time and although we got lots of things ticked off the list, it didn't feel like we were racing round at break neck speed.  Went out to lunch every day and Sian took the afternoon off on Monday (my actual birthday) and was the designated driver, so that was really lovely of her.  We went to Sarah and Adrian's on Saturday evening with Ed and Fran.  Her kids were in and out through the evening, but it was all relaxed and easy.  It seems like a year ago now actually.  Went for a drag on Sunday and the weather was lovely, in fact it's been lovely all week.  My birthday was spent drinking a bottle of Cava and fooling around in the bedroom and then going out for lunch, coming back, seeing the Howards and Pat bumping into Don, an old friend of his, who's been battling a heroin addiction for about 20 years or so.  That was interesting.  Anyway, they all scooted off and we managed to get in a bit of university challenge before collapsing into bed, probably very early.  Can't actually remember to be honest... We were so over hung on Tuesday, that we were in bed after the boys came round for chilli tuesday at about 9.00.  Nightmare! We just don't have the staying power anymore.  Never mind.  Went to Tapas Plus yesterday and had the most gorgeous Tapas.... I had a few glasses of red wine last night of course, the night before I have to go back to work! Tsk.  All good fun.