March 28, 2006
It's Official
I had a birthday yesterday. Over the past few days I enjoyed the following celebrations:
- A day at my parents' house in Black Rock consisting of a hit of tennis (6-3 to me), two swims at the beach and a barbecue with all my extended family.
- A night away at a B&B in Hepburn Springs (includes massage).
- An evening of pizza and beer with my friends. Then we ate (home-made) lemon tart and drank port.
- The Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony
- A new thermos for the football
- A Dees guernsey
- A (home-made) polo shirt
- An ingenious camping table that folds up into a little bag
- Some glossy and fantastic cook books entitled "Thai" and "Curries"
- The DVDs of the Murray Whelan series, featuring the hilarious David Wenham in the title role
- A new stylus for my turntable
- A book entitled "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization"
- A stripey jumper that I would never buy for myself but which looks tremendous - the best kind of clothing gift
- A copy of The Age Cheap Eats 2006
- "Cry, the Beloved Country"
- Two bottles of booze
- A new tea towel
- Membership (and an accompanying handbook) to Bio-Dynamics Tasmania
- A big bag containing coffee, chocolates, olive oil and a Buffy CD
- A box of very cool Pink Panther greeting cards
- A new handkerchief
Regular rants and vitriol will resume tomorrow once I've read the paper and turned my brain back on. (I have a week off so expect more action than usual).
Filed under Peter
Comments
DUDE! Happy birthday. Too bad I couldn't be there. Un besazo, also from Lady Colonister.
Posted by: lamppost_dog in amsterdam at March 28, 2006 11:53 PM
happy birthday. isn't it nice being old enough not to have to go out with random people and drink til you throw up?
Posted by: kate at March 29, 2006 11:33 AM
Happy birthday! Great presents. And for my birthday this year, I am determined to go out with random people and drink until I throw up. They're called my friends and it's called a party.
Posted by: Mel at March 29, 2006 01:22 PM
They're not random if they're your friends, and parties are usually fun, I'm just curmudgeonly.
I was merely celebrating the benefits of not being 20, one of them is doing the stuff you really like with the people you love the most, because you care less about other people's opinions of you and what's cool. I like it, and I suspect Peter does too, although he's perfectly capable of speaking for himself.
Posted by: kate at March 31, 2006 09:20 AM
I would answer but I have a cracking hangover.
Posted by: Peter at March 31, 2006 12:51 PM
That doesn't bode well...
Posted by: Tom at March 31, 2006 02:53 PM
Pete - I have two words for you.
CAMPING CLUB.
I envision guitars, fire, sleeping bags, brilliant people, liquor, cigarettes and the night sky. Maybe a dirty joke or two.
HOW DOES JUNE SOUND? Cold, true, but all the better to pile on the jumpers and drink straight whisky!
I will seriously organise this. And I am fucking SHIT at organising stuff but I will GODDAMN TRY.
Posted by: Jess at April 1, 2006 12:33 AM
Peter
do you mind telling how old you turned?
are you still in the "mid-20s" range?
p.s. if invitations are open to random bloggers I'm totally up for Camping Club
Posted by: morgan at April 2, 2006 12:54 PM
I am now 27. Apparently it qualifies as mid-20s. Maybe late-mid-20s. Or early-late-20s.
Posted by: Peter at April 2, 2006 02:16 PM
I have the same birthday! happy birthday to you, too :)
I wish I got a new hanky.
Posted by: Lucy at April 2, 2006 09:42 PM
That's unreal, Lucy. Happy birthday. It may interest you to know we share with Mariah Carey, Quentin Tarantino and Gloria Swanson (and I actually watched "Sunset Boulevard" on my birthday weekend away - how about that?).
Posted by: Peter at April 2, 2006 09:57 PM
happy birthday!
"Cry, the beloved country" is an excellent book, even if it is perhaps a bit hard to read (as well as terribly sad, of course). But it is worth your trouble
Posted by: jude at April 9, 2006 10:21 AM
What we do willingly is easy... Jane
Posted by: Jane at November 29, 2006 09:04 PM
To live from hand to mouth... Gwenhoivar
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