Birthdays!

The weaners survived the night and look quite perky but they are collecting a vast amount of rubbish in their fleece from the bank (as in slope and not financial!).  I am particularly disappointed in Mick as he has visitors at the weekend and I have told him to remain clean.

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Even the normally pristine Arctic is gathering leaves.

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And as for Tulisa!  She is the little one in the middle - same age as the others, and not thin, just little!

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Today, Sam is 18!  Now that really makes me feel old!  36 hours it took to produce him and he came out at a hefty 11 pounds - almost two of your normal babies.  None of his tiny baby clothes fitted until I had cut the feet out of his baby gros.
He has been working today so I have had time to construct a masterpiece of a birthday cake.  I don't do big cakes so we have an artistically arranged collection of fairy cakes - and when he gets home we will no doubt be going out in his Land Rover as a celebration!  He did not want a party, to go for a meal or any other normal type thing.  He is not even marginally interested in a trip to the pub so it will be a bottle of coke amongst the weanlings I feel!

It is my turn on church cleaning this month so I climbed the hill with a tin of pledge and a duster but every time I hoovered to my satisfaction another smattering of leaves drifted down and covered the Bishop's chair - not holly, luckily.

And a very happy birthday to the village Lion Tamer!

Sorry about the photo problem - I will try to put them in later!