Shit my parents say

It's my birthday today and as usual my Mum has just rung to wish me Happy Birthday.  The call started as usual with her singing a rattle-trap version of Happy Birthday, always hilarious in itself.  She then said "I can't believe your are 46, that's so old, are you sure you aren't 36 or 26?" Way to make me feel really good mum! 

So I told her that what I am hating about 46 is how near it is to 50 and that even by the most conservative of estimates when you hit 50 you have definitely had more than half your life, to which she replied "God yes, in fact its way more than half your life, realistically 45 is half your life so actually you have already had half".  Bloody hell!  

She mentioned that she wasn't loving 66, but hoped that 67 would be much better, then she paused and said "What year is it?" When I told her 2012 she said "shit, I'm already 67 - well thats blown that theory"  Seriously you couldn't make this up!

And then, she walked with the phone to find my Dad so he could wish me a Happy Birthday "Ron, say Happy Birthday to Debbie" and from my end of the phone I heard *big spitting sound* "Happy Birthday Debbie" like an Italian father forced to acknowledge the child he loathed!  Apparently he was cleaning his teeth and had to spit out toothpaste before he could speak!!  


Mum and Dad, you have cracked me up today thank you! xxx

My Birthday pressie

Had a fantastic birthday, far nicer than a 44th has any right to be! Met Em from work and we got the train to Leeds so that I could go to the Pandora shop and get some new beads for my bracelet. Got the light green stripe from my sister, the pale blue stripe from my mum and the blue and jade flower ones from Steve, Em and Tom. I love this bracelet!



Then Em and I had smoked salmon sandwiches at Harvey Nichols. Book club in the evening was even more of a celebration with champagne and lemoncello cocktails - like drinking lemon meringue pie! and a proper birthday party tea laid on by Anna complete with cheese and pineapple on sticks, cocktail sausages and party hats and Lisa had made the most fab choc birthday cake. So all in all I was spoilt rotten and had a fantastic time, lucky me!