celebrations and more celebrations

Great excitement here as christmas celebrations got underway!  We start the festivities with a celebration of our baby's birthday 28 years ago!  Who doesn't want a giraffe shaped kettle for their birthday???
Peter got off to an early start with his holiday shirt and santa hat

and then the following day we entertained 12 for breakfast (a monumental feat for me who doesn't like talking before 11am).

THEN came the presents:

and then, in case we hadn't eaten enough breakfast, we had 7 for lunch:

What a lovely couple of days - let's get back to WW immediately!!!

Floral tributes

I got home from a week in Melbourne to find that there were lots of things in flower in my garden (in spite of the weeds).  I therefore picked a bowl of agapanthus and red spider flowers

And then, when I came home from work on Monday - after a very hectic day, there was a LARGE bunch of flowers on the verandah from the RMC class of '51 wishing me a belated happy birthday.   There were so many flowers I had to put them in separate vases - and now my kitchen looks very bright!

Family

Where I live, I only have 'adopted' family members so I have just been south to Melbourne to see some of the blood and 'related by marriage' family.  We had a delicious lunch at Tosca's new home in Brunswick and here is the evidence:

I had a lovely lunch with Fi and baby Archer who was playing on the quilt I made him
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and F and P also gave me lunch