I am not entirely sure how it happened...but I now have a pink bedroom. There are even flowers and fairy lights. When did I become a girl? I know it has been happening - but when did I reach accomplished girl status and actually want a pink bedroom? Whenever it happened, I am pretty chuffed with it. I managed to get it pretty much finished in two days as well, not bad going for me!

In addition to that, I have spent the Easter Weekend in cheery Chigwell with mother, involving shopping, pub and eggs (sadly lacking in faces as we forgot) There has also been a visit from my dad, stepmother and stepbrother and an evening out with Matt.

Busy Busy! Now the sun is shining and I am comtemplating a walk along the beach as a way of avoiding the housework that so desperately needs doing. Or perhaps I will stay here and listen to Xfm - which I can now receive thanks to Dan and Claire :) Oh how I have missed Christian O'Connell and decent music on the radio!

Happy birthday to Keith for last week and thanks for a fine evening out :)

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Some big 'thank you's to begin with today.

My lovely class for my wonderful 'surprise' birthday party and to their parents who helped to organise it. To my lovely mum, Dan and Claire for their time, effort and everything else. To lovely Nik, for my beautiful paintings and his high tolerance level - and to anyone else who made the effort to help me across the border into full blown adulthood this weekend. You know who you are if you did - thank you.

So here we are at 30. I had built it up into something far greater than it is I think. There have been times this weekend when I have looked around me and smiled at what I have. Far too much time is spent dwelling on the things I don't have. The typical looking back and wondering what I have done with the last thirty years. The unfullfilled ambitions and all that. Everyone does it, I know. I have looked at the people who have been around and realised how lucky I am that they are in my life. There seems to be a little more sunshine in my thoughts today - so what if that doesn't last? - it is pretty fine right now :)

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As I left the Bay this morning on my jaunt into Canterbury for a meeting, I noticed two old men nodding salutations at the bus stop.

They were dressed in the usual pensioner attire - beige coats that buttoned to the neck, shiny slate grey shoes and grey trousers that could most certainly be called 'slacks' complete with razor sharp crease along the leg. Both men carried a folded up newspaper under one arm and both looked grumpily into the distance awaiting the bus.

Both men were also sporting a brightly coloured baseball cap. Is this a club they attend I wondered? Perhaps the bowls club have a new uniform? The traffic stopped and I therefore had opportunity to study closer. One was some kind of American logo and the other carried a Nike swoosh thingy. It made me smile, the beige-ness of the other apparel, to the lurid modernity of their choice of headgear.

Then later, at the gym, a similarly aged gentleman in grey tracksuit trousers, grey vest top and...yes..a brightly coloured baseball cap, this time shouting Reebok at me. Are they giving away caps with the pensioner haircuts on a Thursday?

It was nice. It made me smile. I came home and put something bright pink and cheerful on in their honour :)

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... I may be wrong but that looks like Flat Stanley that Mr Eastwood is clutching

...what do you think?

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...And Arsenal go through on penalties. I am unimpressed.

...But yesterday we had SNOW! Lots of it! The Thanet Way was closed so we were all marooned in the Bay. What choice was there but to get out in it before settling to something more constructive later in the day?

Poor Nik, Matt, Mary, Sam, Taylor and Harry were all dragged to the park by an over-excited Speckledgoat. Anthony willingly joined us also. Much throwing of snowballs and snowman building ensued. Sledges were purchased and children duly dragged around :)

Some time later and we wandered inside, cold, soggy, pink cheeked but greatly cheered. I think there were a few of us that needed a break from it all - even if just for a morning :)

Thank-you to all.

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