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as the water grinds the stone
May. 20th, 2012 09:31 pmThis is how time works, apparently...
Just got back from my second 40th birthday bash in 2 weeks. This one was ajoint one for two of my old university housemates. Last week was one for an old school friend (who's now my joint-oldest friend, since Steve (whom I would have known for 29 years this year) made a decision that we all regret a couple of years ago). They were both really nice, actually, although utterly exhausting.
The one this weekend involved camping, which, yeah, not a great life choice really, not in an English spring-time (I've camped at the beginning of May before when it's been absolutely glorious (too hot for me, but then I really don't like the heat) but it's a little unpredictable to say the least) but given the amount of people and the location it was probably the only option available. It kicked off at 2pm yesterday, but obviously I was latelatelate (in my defence, I did have to drive all the way down to Stratford and I was, erm, kind of disorganised, so I only left at 1.30. Whoops). I turned up at about 6 which still left the evening, into the night, and most of today. And really, the first few hours was mostly dominated by an unseemly amount of children. I mean, seriously, I don't think I've ever been to a party with that number of children. It was kind of disconcerting. And then I realised that, yeah, I'm actually now at an age where having children, and possibly several of them, is pretty normal. And I'll admit (and this is very, very rare for me!) I actually got a little broody at times. I guess I always thought I'd have children at some point? I don't know. It seems pretty unlikely at this stage, and mostly I'm perfectly fine with that but sometimes, just sometimes, I regret it. Oh well.
Where was I? Ah yes. It was cold! Like, for most of the evening I was wearing two t-shirts, a top, a coat and a blanket, and I was still pretty shivery, although Tom's home-made cider kind of helped with that (mind you, I went pretty easy on that because he had no idea how strong it was, except that it was probably more than 8% O_O).
Despite that, it was actually really nice. At least the rain held off, and most importantly of all I had the chance to catch up with some very old friends whom I haven't seen in ages, which is always lovely. Obviously we all promised to make more effort to keep in more regular touch and I really hope that'll happen. We'll have to see!
On the way South, and back North again, I had Covenant's Northern Light on more or less constant repeat. 6 years after first hearing it it's still one of my favourites.
Just got back from my second 40th birthday bash in 2 weeks. This one was ajoint one for two of my old university housemates. Last week was one for an old school friend (who's now my joint-oldest friend, since Steve (whom I would have known for 29 years this year) made a decision that we all regret a couple of years ago). They were both really nice, actually, although utterly exhausting.
The one this weekend involved camping, which, yeah, not a great life choice really, not in an English spring-time (I've camped at the beginning of May before when it's been absolutely glorious (too hot for me, but then I really don't like the heat) but it's a little unpredictable to say the least) but given the amount of people and the location it was probably the only option available. It kicked off at 2pm yesterday, but obviously I was latelatelate (in my defence, I did have to drive all the way down to Stratford and I was, erm, kind of disorganised, so I only left at 1.30. Whoops). I turned up at about 6 which still left the evening, into the night, and most of today. And really, the first few hours was mostly dominated by an unseemly amount of children. I mean, seriously, I don't think I've ever been to a party with that number of children. It was kind of disconcerting. And then I realised that, yeah, I'm actually now at an age where having children, and possibly several of them, is pretty normal. And I'll admit (and this is very, very rare for me!) I actually got a little broody at times. I guess I always thought I'd have children at some point? I don't know. It seems pretty unlikely at this stage, and mostly I'm perfectly fine with that but sometimes, just sometimes, I regret it. Oh well.
Where was I? Ah yes. It was cold! Like, for most of the evening I was wearing two t-shirts, a top, a coat and a blanket, and I was still pretty shivery, although Tom's home-made cider kind of helped with that (mind you, I went pretty easy on that because he had no idea how strong it was, except that it was probably more than 8% O_O).
Despite that, it was actually really nice. At least the rain held off, and most importantly of all I had the chance to catch up with some very old friends whom I haven't seen in ages, which is always lovely. Obviously we all promised to make more effort to keep in more regular touch and I really hope that'll happen. We'll have to see!
On the way South, and back North again, I had Covenant's Northern Light on more or less constant repeat. 6 years after first hearing it it's still one of my favourites.
