Thank you!

Thank you so much for birthday greetings, v-gifts, cards, and all round awesomeness! You are lovely people. Yay you! And I am thirty-seven. Eek!

I braved town this morning to get some pillows, and went past my favourite bookshop with my usual birthday intention of picking up a hardback Rosemary Sutcliff - but there in the window whispering my name was a beautiful first edition of Lucy M. Boston's "grown-up" novel, Persephone. Mine now!

There have been loads of huge parcels arriving throughout the morning, all for mraltariel! We are now equipped for sous-vide cooking. Sunday I got back in to find him spherificating. It's like living in space.

Now I'm going to finish reading Len Goodman's autobiography and then fix the shower.