The Ageing Process

As my birthday dawned, I realised that the ageing process is not helped by a cat yowling "Happy Birthday" all night. After numerous interruptions to my beauty sleep, I gave up just after 6 am and went downstairs for some coffee. I had a quiet 90 minutes with my coffee and the overnight news before Diane came down. This was the opportunity to start opening all of the Birthday cards that had accumulated over the past week. I must say that I received a great deal of abuse in the cards, but suspect it was well deserved!

I spent much of the morning trying to refresh my video editing skills. This involved watching several YouTube videos and playing with some sample video clips. Much of the general workflow is coming back to me now, but I do have many hours of video to work with.

As lunchtime approached, we drove across to Pagham, where we met up with Kim, Zoe, Ellie and her friend Poppy for lunch at The Lamb. By booking an early table, we had no trouble parking, nor waiting for our meal.

Previous visits had told us what to expect. We were not disappointed. There was a wide selection available for Sunday lunch, and it seemed that everyone chose well. Certainly, all the plates were scraped clean. (Diane and I both chose the roast pork, Kim had some Sea Bream, and Zoe had roast beef).

As we sat and chatted over lunch, the restaurant filled up and got quite noisy (and that wasn't due to Ellie and Poppy).

We had a lovely couple of hours there, and I was immensely blessed with the gifts, cards, and love that I received from everyone. We said our goodbyes and headed home.

The afternoon was spent with our Kindles in the lounge. Late in the afternoon, Zoe called. She was performing the usual school uniform check to ensure that the right items of uniform were (or would be) available throughout the coming week. Ellie asked if she could sleep at our house tonight, so that she wouldn't have to get up early tomorrow. (Tomorrow is an INSET day, so there is no school.)