Forty not out
Jan. 11th, 2012 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So 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
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
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- 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!
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Date: 2012-01-11 11:28 am (UTC)Happy birthday for Friday, and how awesome is
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Date: 2012-01-11 01:40 pm (UTC)Happy Birthday in advance :)
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Date: 2012-01-11 02:19 pm (UTC)It sounds as if it would have been a wonderful evening even cakeless.... but A CAKE SHAPED LIKE MINAS TIRITH!!!
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:09 pm (UTC)Incidentally, I was clearing some duplicate books out in another attempt to regain some sort of order on my shelves. I know you were reading Ulysses last year - should I presume you already have Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and dump them on Oxfam?
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Date: 2012-01-11 04:45 pm (UTC)Happy oncoming birthday :-) It's kind of hard to think of ourselves as middle-aged, isn't it? My body reminds me by aching sometimes, but my brain refuses!
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Date: 2012-01-11 05:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-11 05:25 pm (UTC)Happy birthday!
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Date: 2012-01-11 06:29 pm (UTC)Happy pre-Birthday, Altariel. :-)
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Date: 2012-01-11 07:30 pm (UTC)And that cake is amaaaaaazing!
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Date: 2012-01-11 07:52 pm (UTC)Forty's great. (So was 50 in my case). Life just keeps getting better and better, the older one becomes!
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Date: 2012-01-11 08:31 pm (UTC)That is usually followed by a picture of a cake, but you never need that. You have the Picture of Cake which is unsurpassable!
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Date: 2012-01-11 08:44 pm (UTC)And happy birthday for Friday - if I leave it until Friday to say it I'll forget what day it is and not manage it :)
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Date: 2012-01-11 09:40 pm (UTC)work of artcake? That is a thing of beauty and wonder. And you deserve it.(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-11 10:10 pm (UTC)Have fun storming that castle...
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