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One thing I like about spending my birthday in the States, is that it takes nearly a day longer for me to get older. Which is why it isn’t my birthday until tomorrow 🙂

It’s Denyse’s birthday today and we celebrated it at 8 on the Bay, the restaurant near the Indoor Stadium. Well, since the booking was for 8pm, it was literally at 8, at 8. Hahaha. OK bad joke. Everything was fine until we got to the birthday cheesecake, which tasted more like quiche to me because…

A dream: Early life, new beginnings, exploration. Talent; expressed. An old tune that should mean nothing to me – yet it has always meant something. Unfathomable? Possibly love, unknown, pending, thoughtful. Or nothing at all.

The French [Delf](http://www.ciep.fr/en/delfdalf/) exam is coming up in May, and yours truly is intending to go for crash courses until she is suitably prepared to pass it. Alliance Francaise’s Delf preparation classes were already in progress when I decided to take the exam, so I couldn’t join in; and besides they don’t offer classes for…

Today it rained and rained and rained. From morning to early evening, it was pouring buckets. Wielding my trusty umbrella, I got out of the car and stepped gingerly around huge puddles in the uneven pavement. I made a quick dash across a road on the way to the office. When I reached the other…

After months of procrastinating (and I have never delayed this long before) I finally sent the car for servicing. I was so caught up with work that by the time I realised I had better make a booking with the service centre, it was 5-6pm. As the website said the service centre was open until…