Friday 7 May 2021

Kylie turns 50

 My 50th birthday fell last Friday, I was born on a Friday and went home to the house mum and dad still live in.

Anyways, I decided to throw a big party. I've never had one before and it seemed like a good thing to do.

I got the local Indian restaurant to cater, Caitlin made three black forest cakes (regular, vegan, gluten free), I asked for donations to a tree planting group instead of gifts, there was a "selfie booth", Liam had a cool soundtrack playing and I had an African drumming workshop for entertainment.

Even though I tried to make it a low work event, it ended up to take quite a lot of effort. Briony and Caitlin stepped up as they always do and worked their young, fit tushes off well after I ran out of puff!

It was all a huge amount of fun and I kind of want to do it all again!












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  1. A very, very happy Belated Birthday.
    LOVE the beat of those drums.

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    1. Thank you! drumming was almost meditative but fun at the same time

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  2. Happy Birthday! If I had gotten an invitation, I would have been there. It all looks like it was fun.

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    1. I have a number of overseas friends I would have loved to invite!

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  3. Happy Birthday, Kylie! A party at long last was well deserved!

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    1. I've never been confident as a aprty planner but I was so happy with this one, I think I can do it more often!

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  4. It was heartwarming to hear that you had had a very enjoyable birthday. I hope it is the start of a Very Good Year for you.

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    1. Thanks Graham! It should be a good year, I've had bad times but not bad years, I just don't think that way

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  5. Glad you had such a great birthday. I loved the drumming - it would have been fun to take part!

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  6. Happy Birthday to you! Looks like you had a lot of fun!

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    1. Fun and a good feed were the two aims. Goals kicked!

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  7. Belated birthday greetings and best wishes for many more happy returns of the day. I am delighted that it was Indian food that featured in the party.

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    1. Indian food has to be my favourite, though I suspect that what we eat here would be significantly different to what is eaten in an Indian home.
      We had eggplant & potato curry, butter chicken, daal, rice, naan and a kind of salad made with samosa components

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  8. What a wonderful and creative celebration -- Happy Belated Birthday!

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  9. A Happy Happy Birthday, Kylie. Wonderful photographs !
    Fifty is the new Thirty.
    You are only a Bairn.
    Take it from an Auld Grey Eminence. Me.
    Jack Haggerty

    P.S. Tree planting is a great idea.
    Cities, towns, villages, squares all need trees. Tall trees rustling in the breeze and throwing out perfume after rainfall.

    I walk under trees every day: My favourite street takes me through the park to my favourite used bookstore, my favourite bakers, and cafe.
    Hope the weather in Sydney is more to your liking.

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    1. Thanks Jack!
      I'm pretty grey, do I get to be eminent as well?

      The weather in Sydney is glorious, very comfortable warm days, blue skies and cooler nights. I'm in my happy place.

      Sydney has never been good at preserving trees and in the last few years we have lost some very grand old figs due to the thing they call development. Everywhere I go there are established trees being poisoned off or chopped down. It's criminal.
      Enjoy your tree filled walks, they really add something to life!

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    2. I have a copy of Conde Nast Travel from years ago with a photo of old Paris.
      The caption said that the French capital had more trees than any other city.

      My late elder brother was living in L.A. when trees were being chopped down because of cuts imposed by President Reagan, the ally of Mrs Thatcher, who said there was no such thing as society. Stupid woman.

      So sorry the old fig trees have been felled. We have to fight developers and local authorities. Imagine, they wanted to build over Centennial Park.
      Patrick White, one of my favourite writers, joined the campaign to save it.

      The kids in your photos are having fun. Lockdown for them has felt such a long time. They need to get out and have a laugh.
      Jack

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    3. *On Patrick White, Australia's Great Unread Novelist.*
      Madeleine Watts. Literary Hub. 2021.
      Ms Watts can write: I hope I live to read her first book.

      I like White's novel The Vivisector. Some say Hurtle Duffield the painter was modelled after Francis Bacon, but I kept thinking of Graham Sutherland a superior talent. Sutherland did a haunting portrait of Somerset Maugham.
      My favourite living painter is Barbara Rae - see her work online.

      I reread The Aunt's Story for the third or fourth time and the baking sun of Australia was beating down on me.
      I don't know why Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown did not make a movie of one of White's novels or one of David Malouf's: The Great World; Harland's Half Acre.
      Jack

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  10. Happy birthday It looks like you had a great day.

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  11. No need to wish you a happy birthday as you very obviously had one! Do not feel old in the slightest (though you are now nearer your 100th birthday than to the day you were born). Instead, tell everyone that we are living in the age of computers now and you have adopted hexadecimal arithmetic (base 16) which makes you 32.

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    1. i dont think anyone would believe that!

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    2. But it is true! And your computer-savvy friends, if you have any, would know it. I myself, being 80 in decimal now, am the one who is 50 in hexadecimal!

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  12. Belated greeting oh half way to a century one!

    What a great party!

    XO
    WWW

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    1. Lol, yes, half way to my telegram from the monarch! I received a card from my local MP. He could have saved the money

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  13. What a great celebration! Happy birthday to you!

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  14. Belated happy birthday wishes, kylie! The nice thing about giving yourself a party, or even a gift, is that it will be just what you want :) That looks like a fun way to celebrate.

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  15. Belated congratulations on achieving your half century Kylie. How admirable that you embraced the idea of a party and saw it through. Sounds like it was a happy occasion - partly down to the help of your devoted offspring.

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    1. Thanks Neil! It was a lot of fun and my daughters did a lot of tidying up (as well as other random things)

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  16. Happy very belated birthday greetings!!!
    What is this 'party' thing of which you speak?!! Great that you celebrated!
    SXX

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    1. Thank you, Ms Scarlet. Parties date back to the pre-covid era, hard to understand these days but if you picture food, drink, music, fun and maybe a little debauchery you have the right idea.
      I predict that parties will be the new black in the coming age

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  17. Gosh I missed this, so a belated happy birthday Kylie (and here's to the next 50)!

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