- So much birthday-celebrating this week.
- First, C had his early birthday party at DJ’s Jungle, starting with soft play, then party food, Happy Birthdays, and finally, laser tag in the dark on the soft play equipment. The last 15 minutes the parents were also given laser guns for an (outnumbered) parents vs kids match. The grown-ups lost. The most fun I’ve had at a children’s party.
- On Valentine’s Day we joined Andy and Emma at The Lamb & Flag for drinks on the way to Wyndham’s Theatre for Inside No.9 Stage/Fright. Reece and Steve were excellent, as was guest star Phil Daniels who was kidnapped by mistake. There were a few moments that made you jump along with clever writing and comedy. It was so good. I’m very pleased to have booked our tickets a while back.
- Thought: I must have seen more Phil Daniels live cameos than any other celebrity. I’ve seen him several times with Blur doing his Parklife bit and then this week in the first half of the play. He seems to be enjoying life. Sitting in our row in the audience for the second half he was cackling away.
- The day after was C’s birthday so L quickly put up decorations and arranged his presents when we got back. He’s still obsessed with Harry Potter and Lego which made present-buying straightforward. He went to bed very happy and exhausted after a trip to the cinema and McDonalds.
- Thanks to L’s parents staying another night to babysit we went out to celebrate her own birthday early. We ate dinner at a busy Cowshed in nearby Tewinbury.
- I got her jumpers, books, framed photos of the boys and a big print to go on our bedroom wall. Art is so subjective so I asked her for a few choices from a selection so it was a semi-surprise. I even hung it on the wall.
- We finished things off with a Sunday roast at The Lytton Arms and then a family walk I’d found around Old Knebworth. She then spent a happy evening on her phone with a glass of Prosecco pretending to watch TV.
