Forty not out
Jan. 11th, 2012 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielSo on Monday night I went out for what was billed as a quiet dinner with some friends who happened to be in town. When I got to the restaurant ALMOST EVERYONE I KNEW was there.
I may have said something a bit sweary at the sight of all these wonderful people, but it was as ever meant in a loving way.
Yes, I am FORTY soon (on Friday). However did you KNOW? And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mraltariel somehow persuaded lots of my friends to come and celebrate this arcane and hardly-mentioned fact at Restaurant Alimentum here in the Unreal City. Here are some of the things wot we ate.
Also there was a LOT OF WINE, and I may have got slightly tipsy. Or possibly sloshed.
And ALMOST EVERYONE I KNEW was there. And those who couldn't be there and were missed TEXTED ME and SKYPED ME mid-meal, and I was made even more incredibly happy.
And we all talked and laughed and were very happy.
And then - My cake, o my sisters, my cake! It is a cake in MINAS TIRITH shape. It is unbelievably beautiful. See, here are some photographs of an incredibly beautiful cake that is shaped like MINAS TIRITH. LOOK YOU CAN SEE THE WHITE TREE. AND THE HOUSES OF HEALING. It is a CAKE SHAPED LIKE MINAS TIRITH. I haven't cut into it yet. I want to look at it for a bit longer first.
Thank you my friends who came to my big happy party and texted me and skyped me: you are lovely, lovely people and I am a lucky, lucky forty-year-old!
I may have said something a bit sweary at the sight of all these wonderful people, but it was as ever meant in a loving way.
Yes, I am FORTY soon (on Friday). However did you KNOW? And
mraltariel somehow persuaded lots of my friends to come and celebrate this arcane and hardly-mentioned fact at Restaurant Alimentum here in the Unreal City. Here are some of the things wot we ate.- Smoked haddock, fried egg, potato and mustard
- Duck terrine, fig and pear
- Baked cod, herb crust, cockles and parsley
- Sirloin beef and cheek, onion ash, red onion and carrot
- Vacherin, white beer, truffle and onion
- Pineapple and pernod foam and fennel
- Black Forest Gateau: chocolate cherry and vanilla
Also there was a LOT OF WINE, and I may have got slightly tipsy. Or possibly sloshed.
And ALMOST EVERYONE I KNEW was there. And those who couldn't be there and were missed TEXTED ME and SKYPED ME mid-meal, and I was made even more incredibly happy.
And we all talked and laughed and were very happy.
And then - My cake, o my sisters, my cake! It is a cake in MINAS TIRITH shape. It is unbelievably beautiful. See, here are some photographs of an incredibly beautiful cake that is shaped like MINAS TIRITH. LOOK YOU CAN SEE THE WHITE TREE. AND THE HOUSES OF HEALING. It is a CAKE SHAPED LIKE MINAS TIRITH. I haven't cut into it yet. I want to look at it for a bit longer first.
Thank you my friends who came to my big happy party and texted me and skyped me: you are lovely, lovely people and I am a lucky, lucky forty-year-old!
