I am going to try and enjoy my birthday!!!

It is coming around again this week, my birthday. I know.that we all must get older, I am quite resigned to that,I just hate the fuss and hope that that everyone forgets about it, of course they won’t, but I hope that they have listened and have just got me a card, absolutely no presents. At this stage of my life it is time for me to give things away, not collect more. My family are coming to see me the week after B day so we can all go out and have a nice meal together which I will enjoy.
Life in general is pretty good at the moment, despite my injured leg which is taking a very long time to get better. I am enjoying the company of my grandson who is staying with me during the university vacation, it is wonderful that he is doing my heavy shopping and is watering my pot/garden during the present heatwave. All the plants are doing well, we are eating our own tomatoes, courgettes and French beans, how good they taste!!!!! My basil plants all recovered, the tinsel certainly frightened the pigeons away from the courgettes. I have some beautiful flowers, fuchsias, sweet peas,osteospermums, patio roses,hydrangeas, geraniums, pinks and lots of cheerful nasturtiums climbing everywhere
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To g0 back to the birthday, I am going to make a big effort to enjoy it and stop humming a theme tune from the past, “dumpity dum Sunset Strip”
I have been enjoying this Sporting summer, Le Tour de France has just finished (one of my favourite events) with a Briton winning the famous Yellow Jersey. We seem to be doing well against the Aussies in the cricket, but the highlight for me will be Andy Murray winning Wimbledon. I have followed his career since he was a gangly teenager full of promise coming from a town that had suffered a dreadful event in its past. If anyone missed the B.B.C. programme about him, please try and see it as it is really worth watching.
I might have been enjoying the sport but the heatwave has been a bit too much for me. The bus has been like an oven, so has my place of work, I cannot grumble too much as I have been complaining about the cold wet Spring. I think that Welsh people like me are bred for our normal cool damp climate, we can cope with that and enjoy the occasional fresh summer day that is bestowed upon us.

NEXT DAy
I have to let you know that I had a lovely birthday. Lots of visiting friends with birthday cards and absolutely no presents, I do not include a beautiful bunch of roses from the friend that I work with. I am looking forward to next weekend when the family will be having a non-birthday celebration!!!!