Birthday...

I slept in, I had a great sleep [conscience must be clear then!]. I had two lovely talks with my cousin Deirdre, and one previous with cousin Trish, then presents to open, emails and phone calls and even a tweet on twitter.com [I'm southernlight]. Dougal and I went out for dinner at Edgewater, and it was the perfect summer evening.

But among it all, for some reason on this very day, I learnt that just a couple of weeks ago a very close friend had an operation that is going to take some recovering from, and that another just lost his wife whom he'd nursed for years. It was all a strong message to me of the fragility of our lives! In fact I'm becoming quite adept at all this sort of thing, but I'm getting too much practice!