Birthdays are my favourite and my best...

Thank you everyone for my birthday good wishes! I had a splendid, splendid birthday - after work went to the National for a platform about suffragettes, which was quite interesting (though there was a mad, mad, completely insane woman who took up all the question time with some rambly diatribe at Shirley Williams which meant I couldn't ask my question which was Excellent and also To The Point unlike some people's), and then segued to the Giraffe to have dinner with lots of people and it was absolutely lovely and ace and grown-up and I had an apple martini AND a smoothie AND nice food AND half a slice of chocolate fudge brownie cake AND many, many ace presents (including the FINEST HAT EVER from pim2005 and things to turn my poo blue from xanantha and a WIND-UP BIRTHDAY CAKE from morganmuffle and lots of genius other things because my friends are all AWESOME).