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Best Birthday

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Update January 13: thank you all for emails and phone calls, I had two wonderful days and feel truly spoiled! So many parcels with beautiful words and gifts and more cool Moleskine notebooks and beautiful Fifties design books: all so inspirational!!! I’ve promised myself to start sketching again this year because it’s extremely relaxing and I’ve been neglecting it: pencil and ink drawings. There are a few more people I need to reply to which I will do this morning. Back to normal life again today *hehe*

The best year [and more to come]: I’m embracing it with a huge smile thanks to all of the wonderful people that are close to me. Thank you for making me feel blessed, thank you for being part of my life, thank you for all the wonderful gifts in any form or shape that I have received and that I’m still receiving today. I’ll try to reply to emails asap but things have been hectic today already: telephone and email-wise *LOL* And I promised a special someone to spend some special time on my special day so some might have to wait till tomorrow…

Sunday I celebrated with a movie at the Odeon in Leicester Square, a drink at the pub and Afternoon Tea at Claridge’s, what an amazing experience that was… There was friends, extremely tasty sandwiches, beautiful decorated cakes, I chose Jasmine tea, wonderful live jazz [piano and double bass] and the staff of eight even brought me my own cute birthday cake while the musicians played ‘Happy Birthday’. More about the movie in another post, it left a deep impression on me…

Claridge’s Mayfair the Lobby

Claridge’s Mayfair the Lobby

Claridge’s Mayfair the Foyer

Claridge’s Mayfair the Foyer

Having Afternoon Tea: delicious array of finger sandwiches

Having Afternoon Tea: freshly baked raisin & apple scones, tea-infused jam and Devonshire clotted cream

Having Afternoon Tea: a selection of sweet beautiful pastries

A special Cake accompanied by a jazzy piano and double bass version of Happy Birthdaypresented by the Claridge’s staff…

Souvenir d’un Lieu Cher

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There’s something about Sunday mornings, I think they’re magical, especially when the city is still asleep from a long weekend partying. It’s the total silence and the absence of human activity that affects me and knowing that I can enjoy that special moment for a while before it will be gone again for another week.

This morning when I woke up I found myself staring into the back gardens. There was a thin layer of white glistening frost covering the grass, trees and fences. I saw a big fat collared dove sitting quietly, all fluffy, ruffled feathers, trying to catch a bit of warmth from the morning sun. I was wondering where his mate was so they could warm up sitting next to each other.

Then the movement of leaves caught my eye and a smile appeared on my face. I saw a squirrel bouncing around in one of the trees. He paused every now and then to eat and after a while he continued his acrobatic dance jumping from branch to branch, from tree to tree. Squirrels are the epitome of elegant balance and perfection to me, embracing their habitat in their graceful ways.

That’s exactly how I would like my life to be… All that was missing this morning to compliment my thoughts and views was Melodie Opus 42 No.3 by Tchaikovsky.

Fluffy dove trying to warm up in the morning sun

My Squirrel friend posing for me earlier this year in Molly’s garden

To BC…