I came home from work today (did you get that…WORK) to find that DM had been heroically busy. He’d done some housework so we could sit down tonight in a relatively clean sitting room and he’d been shopping for ingredients so he could cook my birthday dinner tonight. It's no wonder he's got a halo!

Hence this shot of him with lemon grass up his nose! He’s making Thai green curry but has still needed me as his “wingman”. I can’t believe that after nearly nine years in this house, he still doesn’t know where the rolling pin is kept!

Me? I survived my first day in my job and I’ve calculated that I’ve earned enough today to pay our next electricity bill so feel like I’ve actually done something useful for once. Even though on one level the job I’m doing is a bit tedious, it’s a lovely friendly company with kind and helpful staff, not to mention a resident office dog. She’s a cutie English Bulldog called Marbles and every couple of hours today she’s ambled in to see me and graciously accepted a tickle behind her ear. I think I’m going to like it here…I just hope I don’t become inconsolable when I have to leave!

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes.