A very merry birthday

11/11/2014

Also known as 'It's my birthday and I ate dumplings 'cause I wanted to'

Last birthday, we were in Paris.

This year, my day of birth began with a 9 am meeting with my boss, and several other boss people who we are collaborating with.

On the plus side, the meeting went super well, and I arrived back to find my desk in a beautiful state of present and cake ladenness!

So I want to thank every one who was involved in making the birthday away from Australia still super birthday-y!

Including the people from Australia who sent cards (which somehow miraculously arrived on either Monday or Tuesday), and birthday wishes from facebook.

Pau made her world-famous carrot cake..

A nice man with his choco-cake! (plus choc-chip muffins from J.)

After some discussion the previous week, which involved me demanding what I thought would be the most impossible creations ever (I came up with egg-free souffle), I came up with '3D croquembouche in the shape of the letter T'.

I think Joram did pretty well:

Strawberry cake!!!

Someone even managed to dig up a candle!

What Joram described as a 'totally not last minute printed on the work printer birthday card'

.. which they none-the-less managed to get nearly everyone to sign.

The message says something like- 'hopefully I make it longer than the cat, maybe next year the present will come on time.. this year, not so much'

And then there's a (badly) drawn picture of the present, I still haven't worked out what it is... Prizes for you if you guess correctly.

And then, that evening, as is my wont on birthdays, I demanded that people come and eat large amounts of (asian) food with me.