Friday 27 June 2008

Lucky me!




What a great birthday! I was all doom & gloom about my birthday not in I'm getting old I just felt a bit like I could not be arsed with anything at the moment kind of mood. Well I had a great day. My sister had gone to a lot of effort and made me and little dear a little tea party for lunch, the best kind of lunch in my opinion. We then picked up my Grandad and took him to Clumber Park, it was great as it was virtually empty. We looked around the 'Clumber during the war' exhibition, we went to visit the beautiful church, my Grandad has a thing about churchs, he is a member of a local history society and spends quite a lot of time studying churches. Clumber church apparently is quite interesting as it is a Anglo Catholic church! He spendt 15 minutes telling me & my sister about what that meant, and then another couple exactly the same thing. We then went to the cafe for tea & scones and then on to the shop.
My Grandad had a great day out with us, so we have said we will take him some where else of interest. I have to say when we dropped him off at 5.30 he was knackered, but my Mum had planned out his tea and had made sure he had nothing on today so he could chill out.
Any way coming back to my birthday, on the pressies front I did rather well and everyone is beginning to understand my taste after 32 years. Me & hubbo agreed not to buy anything for each other as funds are low and we go away in a couple of weeks, but he has promised to buy me a 1950's kitchen cupboard so I am on a ebay hunt. He also said he will collect it as long as it's within a sat nav area (that's every where right!). Little dear bought me the 'Duffy' CD which is rather good. My mum & dad have given me money as we are going to buy some new tiles for our bathroom (sad I know). My brother bought the Cath Kidston's smelly set. My other brother bought me a organizer and a copy of the 'Grazia' magazine, I think he thinks I sit around all day reading, how wrong I sit about all day reading blogs!
One of my friends bought me the little book on sex, as I told her the title should of read ' No sex, were knackered'. Another friend bought me the Duffy cd as well so I am going to swap that for another.
My sister is fantastic at buying presents, she takes in comments I make all the way through the year and does not mind a bit of effort to organise them either. She arranged fro Manda @ Treefall designs to make me one of her fantastic Selvedge Pincushions. She also ordered one of Lisa @ Primrose Hill Interiors Doodle books and one of the lovely tea light holders, they are both gorgeous. She also arranged for the wall decal to be produced for my studio if you can not read it it says 'all work and no play make Vanessa a very dull girl' how brill is that.
My Grandad went into the the shop and bought me the Jam jars & the Jam recipe book. When we were eating our scones & jams in the cafe i mentioned I was going to try making jam and bless him he remembered.
The Henkeeping book was a treat to myself and I have also treated myself to a copy of 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' with the special edition Cath Kidston cover on it. I am awaiting delivery on that one, but I feel this may be my holiday read.
All of this loveliness was finished off by a visit to my local Indian with all my family, it was great. Thanks for all my birthday wishes from you lot to it just adds to day.
Forgot to say the reason for the one card in the photo was that it was from my friend in Italy and it is a 'Poppy Theffrey' card, she gets every where!
Sorry this is such I long post!

12 comments:

Sal said...

So glad you had a great day...thanks for visiting my blog!
Sal;-)

julia said...

Happy, happy birthday, what fab presents, you lucky girl!
Julia x

Miss sew n sew said...

Glad you had a fab birthday you deserve it your pressies are wonderful!
Sarahx

prettyshabby said...

Happy birthday!! love your pressies..i could do with a sister like yours..no-one in my family gets my taste and shes got you some great things from the sounds of it, Ive just been reading back over a few posts..for some reason I had you muddled up with saraeden..god knows how my brain did that one!! your wedding dress was exactly the same colour as mine! oh and I got -38 for my housewife test so you did 42 points better than me!!! I'm seriously crap..but I dont eat raddishes before bedtime, at least thats one good thing! Have a great weekend! x

saraeden said...

Did ya miss me hey did ya !!
I bet you got loads done this week without me ... right ??

Hope you had a great birthday hun !!
Watch out for Mr Postman !!!

Thank you for mine i loved them all x x

Sara x

Jo said...

Happy Birthday! great presents! sounds like you had a lovely day!
Josie x

No one is you ...& that's your power said...

Hi Vanessa
Hope you had a lovely birthday , I love all the goodies !.
I hope there was lots of cake too mmm
x Dom

picciolo said...

glad you had a good birthday, you did well with your presents!
: )

periwinkle said...

Glad you had a lovely time , sounds like you got some lovely pressies too
lisa x

Twiggy said...

I was away on your birthday but what a great day, what fab presents, but most importantly what a fantastic family you have. I love the fact you took your Grandad out, bless he sounds lovely :) glad you had a super time.
Twiggy

Garden Girl said...

Happy Belated Birthday wishes to you! Glad you had a good day, lovely pressies-have an urge for indian food now as well!x

Primrose Hill said...

Hi Vanessa,

So glad you liked your birthday goodies! Looking forward to meeting you when you're up here on your hols!

See you soon,

L x