Birthday - everybody came or rang - lovely light

David and Helen came this morning and this picture is of the table prior to their Halloween Party which apparently was a WoW. One of my presents was a book "Tea" the drink that changed the world'.. I'd heard the author discussing it on OneWord and it sounded like a good read. I also received a tray of Sky and Brooke made fancy cakes. I won't divulge the recipe but they contained real worms, witches blood and other even more revolting ingredients. Fancy seeing Sky and Brooke twice in one week!

I can't list all my presents, after all I'm 72 not 12 but everything was what I wanted and lovely cards and phone-calls from all the big children and Ruby & Elli sang me 'Happy Birthday' all the way from Palmers Green. And Hannah has actually devoted a whole blog issue to the words, each line in a different font-colour and a smashing smiley blowing out the birthday candles. Thanks Hannah! Tracy and co. gave me an infrared shutter release for my Nikon but I can't get it to work. A conference with Reg is called for, or give Jessops a bad time - fortunately a receipt exists. And an enormously powerful 1,000,000 candle power rechargeable halogen lamp from John and co.

Unfortunately Y is still poorly and intermittently feverish. If she hasn't started to recover by say, Tuesday, I shall bully her into going to the doctor. It was certainly the right decision to stay at home today and I've muchly enjoyed 'messing about'.

Picture 2 is some of Reg's tomatoes again, scanned this time. So I suppose they are 'scanned' as against canned tomatoes'. An interesting technique! And I've just bid £4.99p for a proper Nikon flatbed scanner on ebay......and so far, with only an hour to go, I'm winning...... watch this space.....

The afternoon and early evening light has been phantasmagorical and I hope that Picture 3 conveys the feel. Even though Y is poorly she has enjoyed just looking out at the autumn colours.

And now to comments:-

Why Bungus became 'Blog' is a mystery, especially when closer investigation revealed the sender to be (blogger.bounces.google.com). I was suspicious, but felt it was genuine as it referred to the actual blog-issue it was attached to. Anyway, it is cleared up now. Thanks for sizing the dolls and whilst I agree that Gardeners' Delight, and a few more varieties of tomato have the edge on Moneymaker for flavour I was always a fan. Perhaps because they were reliable, vigorous, disease-resistant, and happily produced 7 or 8 to the 1lb regularly. I would have been happy to blog the piece about printing photos on fabrics, had I received it ! All the technological wizardry of Google's 'Search Mail' failed to turn it up. So please send it to me again.

Y is watching Robin Hood prior to 'Strictly come dancing'. I refuse to, solely on the grounds that they have edited out Friar Tuck ! I used to feel he was a kindred spirit and, after all, there are pubs named after him.

Quote for the day:-

"Have no friends not equal to yourself"

Confucius

I think that Hannah is waiting to read the blog. She is ace on Google Chat - so quick, and grown up. Here is a new smiley for her. It shows my blog leaving my computer and going to hers. Sleep tight everybody and I'll catch you tomorrow.

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