Thank you!

[altariel]

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.

Comments

Happy Bleedin' Birfday!

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

In honor of the occasion, a text clip of Monty Python:

ARTHUR:
Old woman!
DENNIS:
Man!
ARTHUR:
Man. Sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS:
I'm thirty-seven.
ARTHUR:
I-- what?
DENNIS:
I'm thirty-seven. I'm not old.
ARTHUR:
Well, I can't just call you 'Man'.
DENNIS:
Well, you could say 'Dennis'.
ARTHUR:
Well, I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'.
DENNIS:
Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR:
I did say 'sorry' about the 'old woman', but from the behind you looked--
DENNIS:
What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR:
Well, I am King!
DENNIS:
Oh, King, eh, very nice. And how d'you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

[mikekellner.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday. Sounds like you are having a good one.

37 isn't old. It's all relative.

There is a bunch of HA Bdays this time of year.

mk

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

Oh, you looked so much younger on telly...

Hope you had a most excellent birthday. :-)

Re: Happy Bleedin' Birfday!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, King, eh, very nice. And how d'you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

Take that, Prince Harry!

:-D

[valderys.livejournal.com]

Yes, Happy Birthday! 37 isn't old - or at least, not as old as 40! :) (Me)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see what he's going to do with it...

Thank you! I'm having a lovely day :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That was a long time ago...! ;-D

Thank you :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Isn't your birthday Any Day Now?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! In my head I am still eleven. You'd think I'd have got the hang of it by now.

[bill-leisner.livejournal.com]

Happy happy!

Ah, to be 37 again. And wish I was still 29.

[owlfish]

Happy birthday!

There's something wrong with a birthday on which none of the parcels arriving are for you.

Re: Happy Bleedin' Birfday!

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

I should add, in full-disclosure fashion, that I am 44 and 1/4 . . . you're just a wee lass to me.

[gair.livejournal.com]

I hope the sous-vide and spherification are connected to the birthday in ways rather more substantial than being mentioned in the same LJ post...

And OMG thirty-seven that is SO OLD ::falls over laughing::

[mikekellner.livejournal.com]

Yes, next Monday. I'll be 59!

That means in three years they will put me on the dole as an old geezer. Hard to believe.

mk

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Sous-vide cooking is that amazing thing Mr A does with the beef, among other things, yes? The thing Midsummer House stopped doing because beef got too expensive?

And the spherification does, indeed, look too sci-fi for words.

Parcels arriving for one's spouse to cook with are *good* parcels for one's birthday. One day when you are a millionaire best-selling novelist and Mr A can therefore afford to become the next Ferran Adra/Heston B I shall be first in the queue for the degustation menu.

Re: Happy Bleedin' Birfday!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Bless you my son.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

What a splendid find in the Haunted Bookshop! It was clearly waiting there for you on your birthday. Have you read it before?

I love the sound of all that stuff, but Mr A is gonna need a bigger kitchen.

Fixing the shower, too! Is there no end to your birthday powers?

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

I think mraltariel should set up a webcam in the kitchen so we could all watch his gastronomic wizardry in action.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

mraltariel sez: "Don't forget, sausages are tasty, sausage factory - not so great!"

Re: Happy Birthday!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it before, but the story looks wonderful - a girl's discovery of self (via running away, convent, and asylum). Just my kind of thing.

Is there no end to your birthday powers?

At midnight I turn back into a pumpkin.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, that very slow cooking. MH still do it with other things. We were thinking of calling our dining outfit "The Scrawny Pullet" - like the Fat Duck, only crapper.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

They are going to important apparatus in the assembly of my "birthday tea", as Mr A is calling it.

OMG thirty-seven that is SO OLD ::falls over laughing::

Oi! *pokes!*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You won't believe what he's just done to cranberry juice.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I think I'll do nicely out of these particular parcels, to be honest! Molecular gastronomy is on its way.