It was Freyja's birthday on Wednesday. She goes skating on Wednesday evenings so we couldn't meet for tea. And Wednesday was the one day last week when my diary was particularly busy, so that scuppered lunch. So she and Simon went out for lunch instead. And she went skating in the evening.
We celebrated her birthday on Thursday instead. She and Simon, Nate and Duncan (her ex housemates), Taffa and Cally, The Builder and I and Stephen, a work colleague of Simon's all got together to party at Fired Arts in Sheffield. Tabitham, Cally, The Builder and I got there much too early, so we tucked Cally under our arms and snuck her into The Banner Cross Pub - which doesn't allow in anyone under 18 but didn't argue about the baby! A swift one later, it was time to meet at Fired Arts.
And it was a good evening. We all selected something to paint. We had all come with snacks and nibblies and things. Someone had bought bottles of wine. There were other groups of grown ups there too, also eating and drinking and painting and generally making merry. No children apart from Cally - but we had made her an honorary grown up for the evening :-P I had thought we might only stay for an hour or so, but suddenly it was nearly 10:00!! Charlotte, the host, brought around a birthday plate for Freyja. Duncan drew a hippo on it. I coloured the hippo in. Then Charlotte made finger print animals from a print from each of the guests, around the rim of the plate. I am very much looking forward to seeing those when the plate is fired and ready to go and live with Freyja.
Only thing, though, is that I am really getting too old to go out to play on a school night. It was quite late by the time we got home, had a sit down and a nightcap and eventually went to bed. It was a serious struggle getting up out of bed on Friday morning!!
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