Birthday Bash
Lindsay and Amy
I’m jotting this down at 09.01 on the morning after my 40-11th birthday bash. I enjoyed it and, as best as I can tell, other people did as well, so that’s good. I was particularly pleased that Lindsay and Amy (pictured with my handbuilt guitar) came along and also seemed to enjoy some of their old dad’s more eccentric ways.
I had my camera along with me but never quite got round to taking many photos – which in a back-handed way is also a good thing. Had I been concentrating on taking pictures I probably would have neglected to have enjoyed the evening itself.
We danced, played some songs, told some stories, ate some food and drank some beer: and you can’t really say fairer than that.
I haven’t written here since just before my birthday (which was last weekend) but it too was an enjoyable day. I enjoyed it for the most part because of its normality – I spent a fair chunk of it making soup, making bread and making muffins. Normality is, I feel, a good thing, albeit for slightly oddball values of normal. Perhaps it is better to say that stability is a good thing and, for the most part, things are stable. The principle area of potential instability is at work.
I don’t generally write about work here and I don’t propose to start now. However we live in strange days for public servants. As a public servant of long standing it is inevitable that some of that strangeness rubs off. The key issue is uncertainty and the relative inability to rely on a stable environment persisting into the medium term future. I do have a -potential- strategy for addressing this but it remains to be seen if anything will come of it.
In the meantime there is leftover cake to be eaten.
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