Well its here - Linda gets her state pension. Yes that's right, she finally comes of age. Lots of cards arrived, some at the wrong address, we are away on holiday and the cards have gone home. No worries, we will catch up with them. Jack sent Lin a nice animated birthday card that he had created. Eevie told Lin she was 61. When asked why, she said that she came to Linda's 60th earlier in the year in September and this is the next birthday. Its got logic, no? Linda has just been chilling out, champagne and snacks by the pool, but we are now off to the Gaylord Palms for dinner with some pals.
Dan is doing his presentation to the group of bursary students at a dinner in a hotel in Cambridge. He investigated creating dyes to tag cancer cells for cancer research. Some of his work was censored as commercially sensitive by the company he was working in, so it could be an interesting presentation.
Just been watching Arsenal do Fenerbahce, 5-2 away from home, so a pretty good first half to the first league section. The next section will be tougher.
I have been chatting to the girl renting our villa. She has the same birthday as me. Apparently you normally need 21 people in the same room for 2 to have the same birthday. Can you work that out! Anyway, apparently its a much smaller number when renting villas! She was pleased to receive the flowers from Colin, shame for her they were Linda's. Linda starred on Youtube, amazing what pensioners will do!
Linda kept the celebrations going by having the pals around for snacks and drinkies on the Sunday, We stocked up
with some nice finger food - chicken wrap enchi-buri-tosta-i'm-not-sure-adas, Mex grub anyway, shrimp(that's prawns to you)-cheese-bacon on a stick, shrimp dimsung, cooked a bacon joint, yummy Brit cheese, crackers that looked like potpourri etc etc. We bought biggish packs with the idea of using some & keeping some in the freezer. We also bought the 20lb turkey for Thanksgiving and put it in the freezer. Arose from bed on the morning of the party, took milk from fridge for brekkie - whoa! - what's all that condensation on the contents of fridge - not that humid - motor's not running. The freezer door is open, turkey has slid and pushed it open. Freezer has gone bananas trying to cool the planet and switched itself off in disgust. Turkey goes for a drive to the neighbours freezer for a vacation.(US turkey) We ditch the liquid ice cream and eat the rest.
Party went great, loads of food, I tried to stuff it down them, but we still had lots of left overs. We partied hard, Pam fell asleep while being photographed.
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