And some more stuff...
I’ve acquired a few things today:
Exhibit A:
– my new shopping trolley. Now Ruth is getting too big to use the pushchair all the time, I still need more grocery-carrying capacity than my arms can cope with. So… a designer trolley it is. (Funnily enough, now I’ve got it, I’m getting somewhat resistant to the phrase “granny trolley” (heh – who’d have thought it – there is no Wikipedia entry for granny trolley!) Continuing to go off on a tangent, we are becoming rather a designer family – what with my Rolser, our Eglu and our latest footwear ... )
Exhibit B:
– in fact I received this yesterday, but strictly speaking it was for today. At a first browse it looks pretty good.
Exhibit C:
– er, this arrived a month or so ago, and I started using it straight away…
There were other things – a beautiful bunch of flowers from Ruth, a bag of fudge from Adam; yesterday a gluten-free cake appeared in the maths department at break…
It is (as Big Ruth described it) a “noughty” birthday. And it’s been a good day on the whole. I’ve been feeling grim for the last week or so – I don’t think I’ve been glutened, but I’ve been very tired, migrainey and grumpy – not the best way to approach my fifth decade. And I’m surprised that it has turned out to be a big deal. Maybe it’s just feeling off colour and a little over-faced that has done it, but given a choice between having a 40th birthday and not having one, well on the whole, just at the moment I’d rather pass. Which is silly – if I try to think of truly amazing women, they are all over 40, and if I think about where I am in life, it’s a good place. In fact it’s a very good place. And if my mother still doesn’t feel grown up, then who am I to try to beat her to it. It can’t only be me who feels that everyone else has the answer to being grown up, and that I’m simply being slow on the uptake?
Moving on – there’s been knitting – I’ve done one of John’s felted clogs:
Only a blogger would hammer at the washing machine door wailing “Nooooooooo!!!!!” as she realised that she’d just started to felt her stupidly big flipper slipper thing without photographing it… But there’s always the second one… (Or have a look here)
And I’ve started a pea pod baby jacket (scroll down)
– I even had the specified yarn in my stash! (Debbie Bliss Cotton Cashmere, that I bought over the phone from Coldspring Mill over a year ago)
Oh, and I’ve been under a certain amount of pressure to join The Mothers’ Union, which, to be honest, I’m happy to do – provided that it is firmly understood that I will be a very occasional attender, and simply turning up once does not mean that I’m automatically the area secretary… There is a meeting tonight – a meeting that on any other evening I would have been genuinely interested in attending – the wife of one of the local vicars will be talking about embroidered “church stuff” (altar cloths, vestments, etc etc) – right up my street, but on my 40th birthday? No, I’m sorry, I just can’t!
eleven comments:
Wonderful stuff – all of it. (If those clogs shrink in the wash, I’ll av’em)!Re the MU – they wanted me to join and I was happy to as well (with one or two reservations). But when I said I’d have to bring Isabel along with me to meetings, they changed their minds
I’ll be interested to know how you get on with it.
Big Ruth () (link) - 24 May '07 - 22:25
Happy birthday!I gave birth to Elaine, had a 3rd birthday party for Arthur, and then turned 40, all in 3 weeks. I figure that was some sort of test… I also figure that “life begins at 40” only if you have your children when you are 20! Imagine!
Mary deB () (link) - 25 May '07 - 03:16
Happy birthday!!! I hope you feel better soon – I hate that sort of inexplicable general malaise…Chris () (link) - 25 May '07 - 04:50
Happy Birthday! I love your ‘shopping trolley’...very funky! Your felted clog are great, I hardly ever take mine off my feet!Janey () (link) - 25 May '07 - 07:58
Hoppy Birdy! Mine tomorrow, but not a noughty, I’m saving that for next year. Sorry to hear you are spending it feeling rubbish, that’s simply not on. As ever, your creations look wonderful, I’m so jealous. I feel an urge to make some cheese scones for lunch to make up for it. Love the trolley, looks far more sensible/practical than my new lug around thing, a 60L rucksack! Take it easy xLouise () (link) - 25 May '07 - 12:13
Happy birthday! Enjoy being 40—I’ve found that since I turned 40 (2 years ago), I have developed a sense of confidence and freedom that I never had before. Yes, I have young children and am still cooking/cleaning/changing diapers more than I’d like to, but I feel a lot less pressure to be “perfect” at work/at home/in society. I am who I am, and that’s just fine!! (I just wish I’d had this enlightenment 20 years ago!!!) Have a happy day!Tracy WW () (link) - 25 May '07 - 16:00
Wishing you the Happiest of Birthdays Hun… all the best people are 40 (something…
Raising a glass of cyber Fizz to you. xxx
annie () (link) - 25 May '07 - 18:04
Happy Birthday, Anne! 1967 was a good vintage… Hope you feel better soon; and I love the bag-on-wheels…Liz () (link) - 25 May '07 - 21:18
Ooh…...hoping you had a really happy birthday sweetie!Love the trolley….its much better than mine :) I bought one when I was carrying my youngest around….they are so Handy!
Love
Sarah xXx
Sarah () (link) - 26 May '07 - 20:47
Happy Birthday! MU sounds fun but, yes, there is a vortex operating in these oprganisation which sucks any unsuspecting member under 50 onto the committee (says she, with experience of Girton WI). I shall toast you in organic apple juice (nothing stronger in the house, alas).rosie () (link) - 27 May '07 - 18:55
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Sorry it’s a bit late – was stuck in the middle of nowhere without internet access…I’ve had the “join the MU” thing too, unfortunately they meet in the daytime here so I can’t go!
Daisy () (link) - 28 May '07 - 13:33
