My Birthday - 59 forever!

My 59th birthday today - the first of many as I don't intend to celebrate any birthdays after this one!  60 seems so old and I won't even get a bus pass as consolation!  I think I'll remain 59 for ever!  Sara thinks that I should celebrate my 60th birthday as it will be quite a landmark to have survived that long.  As a compromise I might have a joint birthday/licensing celebration as I do hope that I shall be admitted and licensed as a lay minister by the Bishop around that time in 2013.  I did discover today, though, that the only reason Sara wants to celebrate these two events is so that she can have a chocolate fountain!  Anyway, back to this birthday.  Sara brought me bacon butties in bed with tea this morning together with a few cards which I opened.  I decided that presents would be opened later in the afternoon when the children were around (both had to zoom off to their respective schools in a rush).  Sara went off to Romsey for a meeting with her Jamie at Home manager and I spent the morning looking at some work which had come in from a couple of clients and which I needed to turn round - essentially looking at a TUPE matrix and a business agreement.  I had intended to go into Sarum College this afternoon to finish off my second mission essay but thought that it wasn't a really good way to spend my birthday - especially as Sara persuaded me otherwise by telling me that she always took her birthday off work and would do something for her self.  I agreed that this afternoon we should go into Stockbridge and indulge ourselves with an English afternoon tea at the Lillie Langtry Tea Rooms. We therefore had an early afternoon tea of sandwiches, scones and cream, petite fours and pots of tea.  I lovely and civilised thing to do and so typically English.  We strolled along Stockbridge's high street afterwards to marvel and the cost of the expensive items in the specialist shops.  Everything high quality but at a price!  This evening the whole family went to our favourite Chinese restaurant at North Baddesley - The Water Margin - and had another high quality meal.  The food is always delicious and we had four banquet meals.  I finished my meal off with crab and sweetcorn soup and I can thoroughly recommend having soup at the end of a Chinese meal - something which is common in China and which I prefer to a sickly pudding.  We spent three hours in the restaurant and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.