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Monday 2 December 2013

Birthday Celebrations

I celebrated my birthday on Friday evening.
A few of my oldest friends came round and we had a little 'carpet picnic'..


On Saturday I continued to celebrate with a lovely walk round some National Trust land,
just to the south of Bridgnorth...


The sky was a fabulous colour...


There were shadows and reflections everywhere..


At the top of the valley we tried a new route, which extended the walk by a few miles..


We picked up an old lane, which was in surprisingly good condition..


Eventually we reached higher ground and the views started to open up..


These two cottages have a stunning view towards Clee Hill and the Welsh borders..


We picked up another old lane and dropped back down to the River Severn..


By this stage we'd walked about 9 miles and had a huge appetite
for the 'eat ups' from the night before..
I even had a small glass of 'drink up' red wine (birthdays and all that!!)


The end of November is a funny time to have a birthday....
My cards always have to fight for space with the early Christmas ones
and work commitments can be a nightmare.
However, I loved my 'low key' celebrations this time.
Winter picnics are really fun!

~X~

On other subjects...
At the moment I don't seem to be able to access any of the blogs that I follow through my dashboard.
I haven't a clue what's going on - but I just can't get to your latest posts.
Is anyone else having the same problems...
I wondered if I'd missed an update or something.

Jx

14 comments:

  1. A belated ' Happy Birthday to you' Jan. What a lovely walk you had - thankyou for sharing such a beautiful day with us. x

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  2. Belated happy birthday wishes, it looks as if you had a lovely time with your delicious picnic and lovely walk. Sometimes the blogs I follow don't show up on my dashboard when they are first published. Just now as I logged on none of them did, I refreshed the page and they popped up but sometimes they don't. I've been told that sometimes my posts don't appear on other people's dashboards until sometime after they've been published - don't know why that should be:)

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  3. Beautiful pictures and the food looks delish. Happy Birthday to you.
    Balisha

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  4. Belated birthday wishes! I know exactly what you mean because I have a late November birthday too. Your walk looks beautiful and relaxing and the picnic sounds really fun.

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  5. I'm not having any problems with Blogger. I love the carpet picnic--keep doing that because, sometime around your 70Th, you won't be able to get up from the carpet--that is, if you can even get down to the carpet, LOL. Glad you have a great Birthday!!

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  6. Glad you had a good birthday with a lovely long walk and picnic. The carpet picnic with friends also must have been fun. Informal get-togethers are often the best times. Haven't had any problems with Blogger, although sometimes I have to refresh the dashboard before anything comes up. I hope your technical problem is resolved. Always good to keep in touch via blogging - I know it's a busy time of year for you.

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  7. What a lovely birthday weekend, a great way to celebrate. I love carpet picnics but we haven't had one for some time now, there's a little furry creature who lives in my house who loves them too so we have to eat from the table otherwise there'd be nothing left. You chose a great walk and you had such a gorgeous day for it. I love the photo showing the reflections of the trees.

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  8. Such a nice way to celebrate your birthday. Not had the problems with blogger that you have been experiencing but from time to time it has been very slow.

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  9. Happy belated birthday Jan. A carpet picnic sounds a great way to celebrate.

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  10. Happy belated Birthday Jan. What a gorgeous area to walk about on. The pictures are great , I loved going along for that walk !!

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  11. Happy Belated Birthday my friend!
    I hope that you're feeling better, If there is anything I can do to help you with your blah days, please always let me know... I love to chat and if you have Whatsapp or Viber please let me know and we can talk!
    I don't usually have problems with my dashboard, but I have had problems with google swtiching me back to a no-reply blogger...
    Soon it will be the Christmas break... and I know you and I both could use a break from school! Much love,
    Tammy

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  12. A belated happy birthday to you! What a lovely walk and some lovely photos you too. This brought back memories of our walks in the area in the days when Dave lived in Wolverhampton.

    Sometimes, when I go onto blogger, it tells me I am not currently following any blogs but if I refresh the pages it works - sometimes I have to refresh it 2 or 3 times. I've made a list of all the blogs I'm following so I can find them all if blogger really does lost my list one day!

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  13. Happy Birthday!! What glorious pics!
    Always nice to enjoy a glass of wine on a special day! Drink up! =)

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  14. Wishing you and yours Jan a magical Christmas time...Merry Merry Christmas!

    Amanda x

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