Blow!

It's incredibly difficult to get a decent photo at a four-year-old's birthday party: no-one stays still for a second. So I've settled for the iconic moment when Anna blows out her candles on a beautiful cake which had the teddy-bears' picnic recreated on its green top. The bears were carefully removed before cutting began.

There was a crazy moment when the four ancients present (me, Mr PB, my sister and my bro-in-law) broke into a manic rendering of The Teddy Bears' Picnic song. The children (two generations of them) seemed appalled. It is quite a sinister ditty, when you think about it ...