Lockdown birthday

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Thursday was my birthday. It’s always one of those days I look forward to far too much and then doesn’t ever quite work out how I plan for it to. This one was certainly a different one being in lockdown and all that. There was no option to see any friends in the evening but the one massive plus was that although I had to work during the day, I did get to open my cards and prezzies at lunch time with a glass of fizz.

I got the huge bag of haribo gummies from Adam, a board game from the friends we play board games with a lot and from my friend from work I got two Lego minifigs, some Lego chocolates and a keyring.
 All the gummies! 3kilos of them. They’re so pretty!
I do have a weakness for jelly sweets though - I just can’t stop eating them when I start to the point of often making myself feel slightly ill. I need to be good and ration myself!

A little bit after lunch time I got some flowers and chocolates arrive from my mum and dad.
I never get flowers so it was a real treat. They’re prettier today as well now that they’ve come out a bit more.

Adam also got me a Disney plus subscription for the year - in with our friends sharing it so the evening consisted of my favourite pizza takeaway
And Moana on Disney plus.
It turned into a really good evening also with calls from my mates that gave me the gifts as well as family to wish me happy birthday.

I have to say it was a slightly weird birthday but not a bad one really. I wouldn’t have changed too much even if we could have gone out.

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