Not late at all Bente. The actual date of my birthday is the 28th, and here in Oz we still have a couple more hours to go yet before it's over. Thanks for the Aussie colours!

Hilda fish, I fully intend to make it birthday week, starting today. I'm on holidays now, so it should be a good week. Going out for dinner with Dale and John Dengate tomorrow night (it's his birthday on Sunday, so a double celebration), over to my son's place on Saturday night, and at the moment the plan for Sunday is a leisurely day pottering round the garden at home and a night time movie fest of Pink Panther movies. By the way, our mutual friend freda underhill has been rather conspicuous by her absence. I suppose she'll emerge at the weekend.

Liz, no chocolate tart on the horizon yet, but the apple crumble John made is rather good!