Hitting 60 🥳

Well …I’m not quite sure how that happened 🤔

I’m not sure how I feel about being 60. In some respects I feel pretty much the same as I did when I was 30 … in my head anyway.

It’s my body that keeps on reminding me otherwise 😜

It really is a strange one. There is the definite thought in the back of my mind that I could only have another 20 years, if I’m lucky,  … but then that is still a fair old whack … though the older I get the quicker time definitely seems to pass.

I guess it’s a good time for some kind of reflection but this month has just been too busy to draw breath so far … I’ve definitely been drawing out the celebrations … and here’s a bit of a 60th birthday photo dump to prove it.

I started early with a very lovely surprise afternoon tea organised by my good friend Tina. I thought it was just going to be Tina and I enjoying one of our favourite activities of an afternoon of tea and cake, with plenty of chat thrown in. 

Tina did a brilliant job of keeping her plans secret and when I arrived to meet her I was overwhelmed to see a lovely group of old friends all gathered just waiting for me to arrive. We really did have a lovely afternoon of catching up over afternoon tea and it was all the more special for being such a surprise …

I came home loaded down with good wishes, cards and gifts. It was a lovely way to start off the birthday celebrations …

A week later and I met up with my old school friend Lesley for a lazy lunch and a bit of shopping …

For my birthday weekend we had a family night in with a takeaway from a local Italian restaurant, which I topped and tailed with anti pasti and a limencello kind of tiramisu. The food was great and we had a lovely evening just eating, chatting and being generally entertained by Bobby …

It was an early start on the Sunday for a birthday treat spa day with very good friends …

And then it was actually my birthday and Martin and I just had a ride out to Hanbury Hall … a National Trust property we’d not visited before, where we just had a bit of a wander and a very nice lunch …

There was a Christmas afternoon tea with mum and my sister, Sarah …

… and a lunchtime visit to The Creperie, which is always a real treat … especially with these guys …

And that is very nearly it. We are now looking forward to a weekend up in The Peak District with Jackie and Phil, where we will be taking in the Chatsworth Christmas Markets and lights … but I will save that for another time.

I think I can say that I’ve made the most of celebrating and … for the moment I am enjoying sitting in the comfy chair, heating on, Storm Bert doing its thing outside, surrounded by cards and flowers …

I guess I will have plenty of time to reflect on how being 60 actually feels and I am building up to a final review of the 60 Things I wanted to do before I hit 60. 

Of course … I do know that, as well as free prescriptions, I can now get free soup and a roll in Asda cafes up and down the country 😂😂😂. Hopefully they are not the only benefits of getting older 😜

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