As I’ve grown older, birthday celebrations have become quieter affairs. Gifts are not so important, but of course gratefully received, especially when said gift is for a treat. It means, when you were born in the Winter months, you can continue to enjoy your birthday throughout the year. Although we don’t usually gift for…
Who says Christmas comes but once a year? It may have been 6 months ago but using a voucher gift from the daughter and son in law, in May, means it just keeps on giving 🎄🎁. On one of the hottest days of the year, we set off to Tenterden in Kent, to find the…
Having previously enjoyed an escape room at the Shuffle House in Tunbridge Wells, the Besties, kindly bought the hubby a voucher for his birthday to enjoy a different game at the same venue. We decided to wait until the Spring, so that we could do the escape room, enjoy a game of shuffleboard at the…
With both ourselves and the Besties celebrating significant anniversaries this year, and having been gifted some money towards a treat of our choice, we decided to visit a local safari park, Port Lympne, and gifted the Besties, tickets to join us. (Lucky them 🥰) Despite being mid July, the weather wasn’t initially too kind…
At Christmas, the Besties gifted us an at home “escape room”. It promised to be perfect entertainment for get togethers and dinner parties. It took us 7 months to organise a date, but mid July, eight of us gathered in the garden to enjoy a bbq and a catch up. As the sun disappeared…
The birthday gifts, I received in February continued to keep me busy throughout May, and included a trip to the dockyards in Chatham. I have watched the drama, Call the Midwife since it began in 2011 and with its outside scenes filmed amongst the old warehouses and docks in Chatham, my daughter had gifted me…
Unless you’re born on 29th February in a leap year most of us enjoy an annual celebration of the day we became the apple of our parents eyes 👶 However, I currently feel like I’m destined not to celebrate birthdays as I once used to 🥲 This time last year as I reached my…
Like so many people over the past 18 months, we have been unable to celebrate some special occasions in the way we had envisaged. Our Ruby Wedding Anniversary last year and my 60th birthday in February, were both celebrated behind closed doors. However having a large household bubble, enabled our family to still make both…
The bestie and myself celebrate our birthdays a week apart. (Makes it easy for the hubbys as they can plan a joint surprise 😂). Only kidding, we’ve had a lovely week filled with treats and surprises. She is first in line for the pampering and started her day with a relaxing Indian Head Massage, followed…
My lovely colleagues, sent me on my way into retirement with the gift of a vineyard tour for two. The whirlwind of the first few months after retirement, meant that the grapes had been harvested before we could squeeze the visit in last season. However the glorious summer we have had this year has given…