This Birthday week is so far so very, very good. Thirty-eight feels sure to be an especially good and busy year, and this is just the way I like it. Sometime on Tuesday, I turned from thirty-seven to thirty-eight. It was perhaps whilst I was squirting the bricks of the house down or cleaning out the gutter. Or perhaps whilst I was painting the lion on the top of our house, trying to feel brave up so high on a forward sloping veranda. Tuesday was spent giving our abode a face-lift with paint and elbow grease and a new front fence, and it is looking great. And it was spent in a local Italian restaurant in Essendon with my family, with a big bunch of Birthday flowers on the table, presents at my heels, and a serve of tiramisu to share. In fact, the whole of the week has been brilliant, from Sticky's Zine Fair at the Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday to a picnic at the zoo replete with a homemade Birthday cake and candles to blow out (thank-you so much, Georgia), much merriment, silliness, recollections, bewitching Fiddler Rays, and leaping (sometimes) lemurs. Birthday cheer shared on twitter and instagram warmed my heart, as did Hila's extra special winged Birthday post on le projet d'amour. I feel very lucky to be surrounded by such loving and kind souls. I feel full of happiness. Thank-you. All of you. xo
I often forget to blog about birthdays because I grew up in a family that is unsentimental about them (although very loving). But today I wanted to make an effort to say happy birthday to Louise!
I met Gracia and Louise in person last year after being friends online and meeting through our respective blogs. I often think that people regard friendships formed online suspiciously – like they’re not ‘real’ because the internet isn’t ‘real’. I don’t buy that. My friendship with Gracia and Louise is most certainly real and I don’t think I could have met kinder or more generous people. So here’s to you my friends, and here’s to Louise – happy birthday! Collected for you are some bird friends, whom I know you will love.
Hope you have a wonderful day Louise, and many pats for Percy, Omar and Olive. XX
(Happy Birthday Louise!, Hila Shachar, le projet d'amour, 11th February, 2014)
