tom's celebrates another year

On Friday 22 January Tom celebrated his 24th birthday. What an old man. We had an excellent weekend of celebrations.

We both took the day off of work to spend a relaxing day together and use up holiday days that rolled over into January. After a wonderful lie in my job for the day was to be at his command. I only agreed to this (well more suggested it) because I know what I am like on my birthday... I believe my birthday is the one day a year everyone has to wait on me and do as I wish, it is my day to be pampered. So I thought he deserved the same in return.

I got up and made him tea and cereals in bed to enjoy as he opened his pressies. Then it was back into the kitchen to make a full on English breakfast/fry up. I didn't miss out on a thing, the meal included; toast, eggs, beans, bacon, black pudding, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes and hash browns. It was a first for me making this meal completely by myself, usually I am the sous chef. Its was delicious and everything was ready and hot to serve at the same time. I was quite proud of myself.


Then we set about doing jobs. This was Tom's idea. Laundry, cleaning then running errands. The most important task of the day was purchasing darts so he could hang his old dartboard and compete with the guys. His idea was if we got all of this out of the way today we could enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Once our tasks were complete we made our way up to Brook Farm for birthday tea. Tom's family is traditional and they have afternoon tea with cake daily. I had never experienced a special occasion tea before. We arrived and the table was set with finger sized egg salad sandwiches. Toms godparents joined in tea along with us and his parents. After the sandwiches we had a Victoria sponge birthday cake, home made of course. Everything was delicious!


Not long after tea we returned to Brighton. I had planned a special dinner, however we both were so full we decided to not waste it and have it Saturday instead With the flat to ourselves we enjoyed the rest of the evening with some wine and bubbly. A very enjoyable night together we rarely get.

I had a wonderful time on Tom's birthday and I really think he did too!

Love