mails: lots (including a really lovely one from belmonte

text messages: several (including one from plotinus saying that to him I'll always be 23 (awwwwwwww)

lj comments: quite a few - thanks all!

prezzies:

• brussels sprout chutney from Adam
  
• a mug with teddy bears on from Jamie and Beverley
  
• various and sundry cheques, one of which will go towards some Latvian ( Read more... )

So, right, this quarter-century business. I shall approach it with revelry (or something similar). We went out for a *wonderful* meal at Restaurant 22 last night, and today we've got Jamie and Adam coming 'round. (Almost the same as last year's birthday guest list, but alas, plotinus is far, far away this year.) Oh, and I'm making mince pies and ( Read more... )

My face still aches from all the laughing and smiling. We all made a lot of noise singing the descanted versions of carols, and bopping along to the cheesier ones. There were two donkeys, two goats and a very large sheep. I call that excellent. The sheep looked rather like a cloud with legs attached, and at one point stared directly at the Dec ( Read more... )

Today, after various other peregrinations, my telephone rang. "Allô Natalie, it's Isabelle." So I went to meet her in front of King's. Having managed to escape early from some terribly dull meetings in Hinxton, she decided to do some of her Christmas shopping here, and I tagged along. First, we went to Jordan's, where she bought a large book of ( Read more... )

Righty-ho, the much touted concert plugs - as posted to two mailing lists (with slight modifications as it was posted there last week) I frequent ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to plotinus, whom we all miss terribly.

(Parenthetical note: P was the first person I met in choir whom I'd not known previously from elsewhere. Last year he let his birthday pass almost without notice, only telling me almost as an aside while we were waiting for my bus. It doesn't feel like only a year.)

...nicked from coloratura_diva this time

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Happy birthday to my cousin Phil, who is fourteen today.

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