Birthday

So had the big-five-0 this weekend, and it was three days of celebrations. Firstly, there was a party for everyone on the Friday. I am the person on the right of this photo. Now you might think that the Hawaiian shirt is to celebrate the 5-0, but alas this is just my normal dress sense. The party involved people from all over the place, current colleagues, ex-students and employees, ex-people from a start-up I had in Bristol, and people I go walking with. Much Prosecco later we ended arriving home at two in the morning. 

Saturday was a quiter day, Ellie (my daughter) cooked an English breakfast as a hangover cure. Before which I was shocked as River Song, Ellie and Oliver (my son) had bought me a Fender Stratocaster for my birthday. Now just need to learn how to play it! But in any case it makes almost as much noise as my shirts.

Finally on Sunday we went to my favourite Italian restaurant, Il Michelangelo, in Weston-Super-Mare. River Song and I found this a few months back. We went in thinking we could get a quick Pizza after taking some photos of the piers in Weston. A few hours later we came out totally stuffed. It really is a proper Italian restaurant, serving great food. And the staff are amazing fun. We had a party of ten today, ranging from five to eighty in age. The staff were great and the food was also amazing.

I had a  starter of mussels, with a main course of lamb shank. Both of which were excellent. The lamb shank being particularly well cooked, it just fell off the bone. All washed down with some nice Pinot Grigio.