My birthday...

Well, I'm 38.  As you all know from experience, I don't feel any different today than yesterday.  Today will involve champagne, cake, friends and laughter.  It's not always been great having a birthday at Christmas, though it's great to have the tree and all the twinkly lights.  I put the presents and cards under the tree.  I get given birthday cards from the beginning of December and I always put them in the same place, yet always manage to misplace a couple that re-appear in February.

Am now off for afternoon tea at Woburn, where the idea originated, for the last of the extravagance...