HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLISS!

Appy birf'day to you

Appy birf'day to you,

Appy birf'day dear BLISS,

Appy birf'day tooooo yoooouuuuu

We're all at work, leaving TGS wrapping presents. Not a bad idea. I'm ok as long as the present is (a) small, and (b) all angles are 90 degrees. Oh, and (c) there's no rush. Then there's (d) and (e) plentiful wrapping paper and sticky tape. Finally, (f) something soothing on the stereo. TGS is superb at wrapping presents under any and all circumstances.

Home now and TGS has done a magnificent job without (a), (b), (d) or (f). Fantastic.

Preja Vu

I just know this is going to happen. It's a Venus / Mars thing. Heading up the M23 on Monday with Fat Dave, he got all excited about pointing out a tree that appeared around one of the bends. The excitement was because it is actually a cellphone mast disguised to look like a tree. I sort of feigned interest. But the next time we head up the M23 I'm going to have to point it out. BLISS is going to do a massive 'whatever' and think I'm really sad and right boring. But it's one of those things. Now I know, there's no way of ever driving past it again without pointing it out. It's T-Mobile, by the way.

Borough Market

Took a short cut through there today. All the spices and fruit and veg smells, all the cooking. I've been hungry ever since. If you ever need an excuse for some fish and chips, or speciality sausage baguettes, or paella at 11:25 in the morning, this is the place. I was in the area because it has proved a big problem getting Transport for London to licence scaffolding in the area. Why? One of the reasons for the political sensitivity is, apparently, bacuase it is on Boris' cycle route in to County Hall.

Gants Hill

Right posh. Only hand-made birthday cards to be had and £9.80 for the business lunch in the chinese on the corner of Woodford Road and the A123. My maximum for one of those is £3.50, so I can't comment on whether it was good value. That's £3.50 including the can of Pepsi. Anyway, always nice to see somewhere new and tick another new station off on the tube map.

Pain all over

I'm creaking so badly at the moment. Pain, not aches. Right foot and ankle, both knees, back, limping. My bag felt like it was full of bricks and my shoulder was giving out by the end of the day. Could it be going back onto the blood pressure pills? It's now one in the morning (the normal one) and a Rempril last thing. Rempril. Sounds like a baddie in a bad novel or one of Dracula's henchmen. I was ok before I visited the doctors, so it must be their fault.

The cake's ready, the super-duper Indian restuarant's booked...

Just waiting for the big arrival of the birthday BLISS now...