Today is the eighth anniversary of the second time I met Lovely Tim. When he came to the second blog party, knowing no one in person, he invited me and the Sage to his birthday party a few weeks later. It worked out quite well as I was going on holiday with my sister and was able to work out the dates around his party.
Life and soul, I was, darlings, never imagining I’d see any of the other guests ever again. It was all an act, of course. But I threw myself into it.
There was another guest who’d been at the blog party: Mig. She drove to Tim’s house and he brought her along here. And Barney was able to come to Tim’s birthday bash too. Tim hasn’t had a birthday party since, but then I’ve never had a birthday party since childhood except for my 16th and my 40th. We do love throwing parties though. I do hope that we’ll be able to next year.
But for now, happy birthday, loveliest Tim.
I think that was the first blog party we attended, my account seems short on personalities, two photos, one of which is The Sage handling a one day old chick, the other is of a chimney at the Zeddery, Ian was fascinated by the brickwork.
I think that was a time when Blogging was at its peak, photographs on Instagram seem to have taken over for many, I am continuing for my own selfish ends as I it has become a record of our lives, especially for changes made to our home, for recording my knitting and crochet and a travel guide when we have been out to play.
Thank you for your blog, it is still a mystery how I found you in the first place.
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Congratulations!!
I like the post title!! The hand washing came in around the time of my birthday, and I’ve been singing happy birthday to myself ever since!
Sx
We’ve known each other for a long time, PixieMum, but I can’t remember how we found each other’s blogs either. The first blog party was quite a shot in the dark, I had only met two, I think, of the guests. I think you came to the second one too and then we met up at Trafalgar Square later the same year. When I want to find out some detail from the past, I always look to my blog first, it’s so useful.
Whoever came up with that idea for timing hand washing was smart. Everyone knows it and it’s cheerful.