Birthday boy!

So, it's the wee lad's eleventh birthday! When did that happen? Gosh, time flies.

JR made banana & carrot muffins instead of a cake. All his doggy friends have food allergies and are on special diets (so is he, actually) and can't eat just anything. To have space for eleven candles needed five of the muffins. And in fact, I nearly set the arm of my jumper alight when taking photos, such was the heat off the mass of candles!

He then went off with Elizabeth for an extra (birthday) walk, wearing his 

'It's my birthday!' 

bandana, poor lad - he doesn't mind joining in the fun.

We took ourselves off for lunch in a little French Cafe in town. I just booked it this morning. Until quite recently, they only had a phone in booking service, but now it's all online. A set menu, two courses for £20. Now that's good value. It was mobbed, with just one young lass doing all the waiting of tables. But, as we often do, we reminisced of how we did more covers than this, with just the two of us, in a restaurant in NZ in the 80s...

We did pop into some shops on the way, and on the way back to the bus. It was ME who ended up buying a couple of items!

Happy Birthday Archie. You're a wee smasher!