Footy, French fancy, Wii and good company: birthday break day two (posted Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 10:16 pm)

Photos from birthday break day one have now been added to the previous blog post.



Day two of my birthday break began with tour of Oxfam House for Ed and Cat, followed by a visit to cousin Adrian’s workplace, where we played with - and in the process destroyed - a football. We also learned about counseling sessions in which offenders face their victims, which sounded both fascinating and horrifying.




I have no idea what’s wrong in the middle photo

The soggy day ended with an open-top bus tour of Oxford (after 19 months in Oxford, I think it was overdue), and a trip back to cousins Rachel and Adrian’s flat for an oversized French fancy, some shell-chucking on the Wii, attempts to photograph head-launched poppers and a (quite gentle, compared to playing with the ruthless Robsons!) round of Munchkin. We also learned that we were being watched by Rachel’s kitchenbeast, the Gonk, which climbs down at night to enact evil deeds.

Aside from the ensuing nightmares, my two-day birthday break was utterly splendid. Thanks to everyone who joined in or sent words or gifts, you made it a very special birthday.

For the record, among other things, I got:

  • A Sesame Street t-shirt (my housemates think I look like The Count)
  • A greetings card-making kit
  • A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body (or at least a book about it [for some reason, while my copy says 3.5b years, the Amazon version says 375m...])
  • Very well fed
  • Well and truly flummoxed by Derren Brown
  • An interest in meditation
  • A massive French fancy

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