Saddo

So - I'm home alone (Kev's in Spain) and it's my birthday.

AAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Poor little Kaz.

I know it's my birthday because the leaves are going brown and the swarms of students are back.
I'll have a birthday 'do' with my friends next week when they will give me presents which I shall put lovingly in the cupboard with the ones they gave me last year.

But on the actual day (yesterday) I was alone.

I woke early and sang a hearty rendition of 'Happy Birthday to Me'

Through my letter box came -

• A birthday card (cousin in Marple)
• A letter from the Halifax asking me to insure my house with them??

They cannot be serious - after last week’s news I wouldn't insure my breakfast with them.

• A leaflet from Mo's kebab shop
• A leaflet from Yong Da's Chinese take-away.
• A leaflet from the Madrid Pizza Place (Madrid?)

Later I received -

• A txt from Ldy Pnlope - the one with scl sklls and chndlrs.
• An e mail from friend A asking me when my birthday was
• An e mail from Jan wishing me a Happy Birthday for Friday.
• Nowt from the Jazz Fan

I remembered when my mum became too ill to go out shopping, she'd give me a generous handful of crisp cash and say "Don't bring any back with you."

I was always a good girl so I daren't disobey.

So that's what I did yesterday - except I had to use my own cash from the money machine. This was OK - it was the lack of guilt that was important.

I wanted some brown suede ankle boots - (not Aussie Uggies) I knew exactly what I wanted - but when I found it I didn't.

So I bought a boring brown cardi from Zara for 20quid. It has 6 lovely pearl buttons on each sleeve. After lunch I bought -

• A bottle of real champagne
• Gigantic prawns
• Spicy red pepper houmous/hummus
• Stuffed vine leaves
• Marinaded Greek olives with feta
• Tiramisu

I also bought some DVDs.

Later I settled down to eat my prawns etc, drink my champagne (not all of it) and watch my DVDs.

Bliss!
KAZ