Word of the week - Birthday

June is a busy month for Birthdays.

Both our daughter in laws have birthdays in June, so does my mother, a couple of friends, our son's dog and more importantly so do I.

I'm 55 today. What a number.

Child free or empty nester, not yet retired, but defiantly adapting to a slower pace of life or am I?

I ran a marathon in the spring. I'm running an ultra this autumn.

I've just got back from a weekend in Paris with a friend and boy am I feeling it, trying to catch up on missed sleep is not an option these days, it's a challenge.

My son had a pop at me when I complained about the heat 'you used to live in Dubai, get on with it' I spent the bloody summers in the UK, not Dubai for this very reason and we had air con, like everywhere, even in the beer gardens.

So what am I doing for my birthday in this heat? Well I'll be in work on Friday, I'm taking biscuits into school. I'm not being tight, well I am, I can't eat the cakes everyone else brings in for their birthdays so I'm not spending out a lot of money, in fact I'm not sure why I've even bothered buying anything at all now as I'm typing this out. 

I've had cards and presents come through the post already. I've opened cards, but not gifts.

We're going out for the day on Saturday which will involve a lunch and friends and a walk and I'm hoping to spend most of Sunday in bed followed by a trip to the coffee shop and at some point I'm really hoping that I've dropped enough hints and there will be cake.

As the week has gone on, new plans have developed and I'm actually camping on my friends drive Saturday night and visiting another on Sunday morning, so no lie in, no sign of any cake on Thursday night either.