Make the most of celebration days I think...
Get out early in the morning and breakfast somewhere you've never breakfasted before...
Like the Lyttleton Coffee Company.
Walk by the seaside and marvel at
spring buds...
Check out some civic art and recall a literary hero at the same time...
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Mowgli, Just So, Puck, and more recently, Kipling's poetry on what it is to be torn between two countries, have coloured nearly all my years of reading. Here he sits at the end of Kipling St in Christchurch - a sculpture by Chris Reddington.
Eat more at some indulgent place like The Tannery - Christchurch's post Earthquake, boutique shopping destination... While you're there buy kid gloves, dried hops, an old Penguin book of
D H Lawrence's short stories England My England.
Head home to the garden with your brand new birthday gloves and potter ... Today I planted peonies received from a friend earlier this week.
Finish the day by giving your niece a belly dancing lesson. Don't forget to dance a bit yourself even at your age!
Get out early in the morning and breakfast somewhere you've never breakfasted before...
Like the Lyttleton Coffee Company.
Walk by the seaside and marvel at
Check out some civic art and recall a literary hero at the same time...
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Mowgli, Just So, Puck, and more recently, Kipling's poetry on what it is to be torn between two countries, have coloured nearly all my years of reading. Here he sits at the end of Kipling St in Christchurch - a sculpture by Chris Reddington.
Eat more at some indulgent place like The Tannery - Christchurch's post Earthquake, boutique shopping destination... While you're there buy kid gloves, dried hops, an old Penguin book of
D H Lawrence's short stories England My England.
Head home to the garden with your brand new birthday gloves and potter ... Today I planted peonies received from a friend earlier this week.
Finish the day by giving your niece a belly dancing lesson. Don't forget to dance a bit yourself even at your age!
8 comments:
Lawrence wrote England my England at a friend of mine's house in Sussex. Isn't that interesting!
What a great way to celebrate the day..x
Happy Birthday, and thanks for bringing me along with excellent photos.
A very Happy Birthday. You certainly packed a lot of fun into your day.
Cro Magnon: Wow thanks for that insight. I'm glad I mentioned the title of my new old Penguin :-)
libby: You would have loved it I'm sure!
Geo: Glad to have you along - there's another sculpture of Ruskin, by Chris, just around the corner in Ruskin St.
Susan Heather: Don't we live in a great country - but I bet you have a bit of that two-countries yearning too?
Sounds like the template for a very fine day.
Steve: The exchange rate is turning in your favour...
Sorry I'm so late in wishing you a (very) belated Happy Birthday. Ongoing internet problems and only just now able to catch up. And oh for Spring. If only I had the resources I'd spend half the year here and the other half 'down under'..
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