Things I received

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Thank you very much to everyone who wished me a “Happy Birthday”. It certainly was.

Things I received:

• a piece of paper-work (it is hard to describe – an artwork of handmade paper, part print, part drawing, with bits woven into the paper)
  
• some rather excellent after-shave balm from Penhaligons
  
• a variety of different clothes
  
• an email (well, my brother is working in Sri Lanka, and has been there since just after Christmas)
  
• a phone call – from my mother, realising that she hadn’t sealed an envelope containing a cheque (so she cancelled the cheque in case someone stole it, and was phoning me to tell me not to cash it because – well, they might arrest me!)
  
• a cheque – which had me confused, because I didn’t know if it had been cancelled or not (bizarrely, the replacement cheque reached me before the original)
  
• some rather nice cards, including a print of a magnolia (one of my favourite flowers – though I prefer Liriodendron), a beautiful sunset view of Rum from a beach on Eigg, and picture of a bottle of wine and cheese (rather appropriately, and completely coincidentally, the wine pictured was the same we had drunk in the restaurant on Saturday night).