A curate's egg

[coughingbear]

Good things about my birthday:

The post arrived before I left for work
Araucaria crossword in the Guardian (best clue 'I don't "move in predestinate grooves" (Foot)') - ETA 6 letters
England's bowlers
Dinner at St John with two of my oldest friends (I had chard & foie gras, saddle of rabbit, summer pudding)

Bad things about my birthday

The

Comments

[debodacious]

Ooh happy birthday for yesterday.

And was St John very good? I have had a yearning to eat there ever since I saw their menu regularly features roast suckling pig, which I have a bit of a thing for. The fact that I live 600 miles away is a slight obstacle of course :-/

[coughingbear]

Thank you!

St John was excellent (it was a last-minute choice because they had been fully booked, but we got a cancellation). Apparently you have to book roast suckling pig well in advance, but what we had was great. Something I'll have another time is the roast bone marrow which looked fab.

[liadnan]

I meant to say Happy Birthday yesterday. Belated wishes anyway.

Bizarre game at Lords so far.

[coughingbear]

Thanks! It is the oddest game, isn't it? Had been thinking I would try and go on Monday, but it seems unlikely to last that long. Good to see Pieterson doing pretty well this morning.

[coughingbear]

Sorry! (6)

[coughingbear]

Yes - I liked it because I remembered the rhyme ('I'm not a tram, I'm a bus') though it took me a while to get from there to the answer.

Have had a quick look at Paul but not got very far yet - which clue are you thinking of?

[ex_ajhalluk585]

Happy birthday! And I'm sorry the batsmen didn't live up to the morning's promise. But probably not as sorry as the colleague who took a week off to go to the Lord's Test.

[coughingbear]

Thank you! I feel for your colleague. I was reduced to hoping it would rain all day yesterday, a sad response I hadn't actually felt for a while.