Post birthday celebrations and birthday eve

Hi blog

we had a wonderful celebration for Phil's 70th  birthday . JO's was a lovely unusual venue, the service and the food was great.

A&L and John and I rented a serviced apartment in Manchester "Light apartments"

 It was a stunning apartment with stunning views.We arrived early and put in some food ,wine, flowers candles and lovely fairy lights.

The gifts were on a low table with the flowers and lights beside them, the effect was simple and festive.

The views over night time Manchester was fantastic,

A&P&L's gift was the most beautiful oil painting of Lost in France. I do not think I have seen Phil so moved, ( apart for sad things) He loved it, and he loved all the other smaller gifts, from the other folk who were there.

Maggie and Rolly left after the meal , it was so amazing to see them after about 20 years. Maggie was the first woman I came across who drank pints, smoked cigarettes and was a vegeterian.She also had a mane of curly long red hair!

I never could get my head round that combination. I liked her immediately.

It was fantastic to see Richard and Doreen again , still good company and can make me laugh out loud.

Richard as dapper as ever! Doreen  keeping folk on their toes, her normal role.

It was good to reminisce about our young days with them, we have a shared history, and it was good talk about it all.

The evening was filled with warmth love, and a wee bit if nostalgia too.

The boys did their dad proud, and everyone else joined it to make the evening such a success.

The icing on the cake was that Man U beat Liverpool 2-1.


I am a bit worried about Andrew not sleeping ,I think his stress levels are quite high.

I have offered him some advice, that is about all I can do.

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Dad ,it was good to hear Richard and Doreen talking about you, you certainly made an impression of folk.

Last year at this time I was in Glasgow visiting you in Hospital twice a day.

I met my young neighbour this morning ,she lost her mum at the same time we lost mum. We have a sympathetic relationship.

We had a litte hug and a wee cry together this morning.

I am working in Chester tomorrow. I am quite glad really. I used to like working on my birthday's because people bought cakes and sang happy birthday. Unfortunately I cannot mention my birthday to the folk I work with these days.

64 tomorrow Pa. hard to believe. I sing " will you still be sending me a valentime, birthday greetings, bottle of wine," to myself all the time, can't get it out of my head. I remember when 64 was indeed "many years from now" now it is a few hours away!

I am patiently waiting for our twin beds to arrive, anytime between 7 am and 2 pm.

Really looking forward to them being installed, new beds new mattresses, new pillows.new sheets ,new duvets.

We bought Mimosa last week, a gift to each other for our Silver Wedding at Halloween.

You will be happy to hear pa, I am investing the rest of our  money in a two year investment account. so no more spending for a while :-)

I am planning to spend a lot less on Christmas this year too.

Back to living on the pensions :-)

Love you pa, miss you, Helen XXXX