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Happy Birthday

It's my 42nd birthday today and I am off to buy something nice, not sure what yet! I received some lovely presents. Ian & Jack bought me a new flat panel TV for the kitchen. It's really cute and fits on the worktop and comes with Freeview. Now I can keep watching a film whilst cooking! My sister Danielle bought me two planters for the garden and a paper potter. I made lots of seedling pots out of newspaper yesterday, such a clever gadget. Bob made me a gardening sign out of wood (you can see it in the picture on the right). My parents and Ian parents gave me money, Debbie at work a glass cake dish and Carol at work a lovely necklace. And lots of pretty cards.

Spent yesterday afternoon in the garden after popping to Millbrooks in the morning to get a couple of herbs to put in a hanging basket with one of my tumbling tom plants. Ian put a hook in the middle of my pergola and it looks really good there. I used my old hanging baskets that I normally plant up for the front of the house. So I now need to get two new ones. Ian also bought some more fish for his marine tank. I'll add a photo of it soon. It looks great in the kitchen wall and so interesting to watch. I also did a bit of weeding and pottered about. It was a lovely warm afternoon and I was out there until 7pm finding things to do.

Anyway the weather is cooler today so perfect for shopping!

Enjoy the rest of your bank holiday weekend. Amanda x

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sky said…
Happy Birthday! :)
25 May 2009 at 14:48
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