You will be glad to know that I survived another birthday. It was rather a good one actually.
I normally try and take the day off when it is my birthday but circumstances conspired against me this year. The good news about working on my birthday was that we had a ‘morning tea’. This is the custom of stopping work for ten minutes and having a cup of tea (or coffee in my case) and a slice of cake (or pies and sausage rolls yesterday) with your colleagues. A cross between a tea break and a tea party sums up the experience.
The best thing about birthdays is definitely presents. My beloved bought me a number of things, but the item that got the most notice was my new sailing watch. It is the ultimate gadget and everyone in the pub last night was very impressed that I could tell them the ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure from it. As for the compass, well …
I will pop over to the Casio web site and try and find a picture of this watch to end all watches.