I had a great Birthday! As I wrote last week, I always enjoy my birthday. The opportunity to get a few of my friends and family together is just too good to miss. With the Christmas anticlimax effect still in effect it would seem that my friends like having this date on their calendars too.
A few people couldn’t make it this year but twelve of my friends and family joined me for a meal at a place not far from where I live. The venue made the lofty claim of being a country club, The Grange maybe many things, but ‘country club’ it is not. As the night draws on the bar and downstairs dance club fills up with what always looks like a gathering of divorcees hell bent on squeezing into the clothes they wore when they were thin enough to get away with something like that. Nonetheless though we all had a great time because we were able to sit around a large table in a private dining room and enjoy the good company.
As I wrote before, my birthday is now one of the highlights of the year for me. I just love being able to get a bunch of people I love to be with around a big table, it’s great! As usual we set off a few rockets before we went to the restaurant, a couple of the neighbors peeked to see what on earth was happening, but any would be complainers probably beat a retreat when they realised that they were horribly out-numbered.
I had a great time as did everyone else by all accounts. As I previously wrote… I love my birthday!
Wrote the following comment on Jan 15, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Now that is one pretty incredible table! It is a perfect table to gather and encourage conversation. I would love to find a resturant with a table that large. I would love to have one in my home, but alas, by house is not quite big enough for table large!
Happy birthday, Mr. Simon! Hope it was a good one!
Wrote the following comment on Jan 16, 2007 at 3:10 am
You got your square table! Yeah!!!! I’m glad you had a wonderful evening – birthdays should be special-and I recommend that you have many more!
Wrote the following comment on Jan 16, 2007 at 4:42 am
looks like a wonderful group of friends.. and family.. and like a real lovely restaurant. way to go…
RYC: well, that stinks. When I get into really long replies… sometimes I copy them because I think the risk of deleted messages rises with the amount of effort, time,thought, eloquence and soul you put into the comment. Anyways, always feel free to recomment later..
Wrote the following comment on Jan 16, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Happy b-day!
Wrote the following comment on Jan 16, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Happy Birthday Simon(!)
Perhaps shocking to believe I still follow your meanwhile/blogs but tis the truth i tells thee(!)
…on the inspiration of which I went to see the ‘undiscovered country’ you wrote about myself (in many ways in disbelief that such a place existed so close to my own doorstep) this very weekend. Has to be said, it’s really quite impressive.
What’s more impressive that as a Wirral resident my entire life, *I* didn’t know it was there… and it took me the best part of an hour to find!
In my defence, the sign seems to be twisted in various directions on the whim of the local ‘youth’ though ;)
Wrote the following comment on Jan 17, 2007 at 4:42 am
Hey, celebrating on what was my birthday… how dare you! Lol.
Hope you had a good time mate, The Grange isnt that bad a place for a meal, though I agree, it is a “Country Club”
Wrote the following comment on Jan 17, 2007 at 4:43 am
My mistake, you celebrated on the 13th, not the 15th when you posted… my bad! :o(