30 years a-growing

[ailbhe]

Mum and I are back from Bath and she's been in bed for hours. We're both tired but we had a lovely relaxing time. Rob and the children were fine without me but after 20 hours without Emer I was woken up by the pain of engorgement; an hour hand-expressing in a hot bath helped a bit but I was pleased to see her 9 hours later when we got home.

Being 30 is just like being 25 really. I think.

Mum was all happy about that and then slightly surprised to realise that if I'm 30 today she's 67. Goodness me!

Rob and the girls made us a birthday cake and Linnea blew out our candles for us. Tomorrow I will find my phone and answer all my text messages. I know I have some.

Marjorie the Librarian was on our train home from Reading to Reading West and she kissed me goodbye! I've never got the hang of social kissing. I don't even kiss my mother, and it's surely not because I'm not very close indeed to her. But it was nice Marjorie felt so strongly about all her old customers, or whatever library users are called.

Mum and I went to the Thermae Bath Spa and swam in the rooftop pool. It was too brightly-lit and cloudy to see much in the way of stars, though.

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, fellow 78-er!

[niallm.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday Ailbhe!

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, young padawan! (I turn 40 in a couple of months.)

[k425.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, Ailbhe - it sounds like you had a lovely time.

Re: 30 years a-growing

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

a very happy birthday! (you're only 30? i always think of you as older.)

[clarahippy.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[tafagirl.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday :-)

[piqueen.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[whirligigwitch.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Sounds like it was a good one :-)

But it was nice Marjorie felt so strongly about all her old customers, or whatever library users are called.

I call them customers :-) Or patrons occasionally, though I'm not so keen on that for some reason.

[wandra.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[ai731.livejournal.com]

39 doesn't feel much different to me that 30 did, either.

Happy Birthday!

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Belated happy birthday!! :)

Happy belated birthday :)

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you had a lovely time in Bath :)

I kiss my mum and dad hello and goodbye most times I see them, but I'd be a bit surprised to get a kiss from Marjorie ;-D

Alison

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Belated! I've been in a tunnel these past few days (not a bad tunnel, just very ... tunnelly), so I never texted you like I planned. Glad to hear your trip to Bath went well :-)