Did I not promise you I would blather on and on about my birthday? Am I not a woman of my word?
I can’t let it go because I received so many lovely gifts, I have to share them all with you. And because it gives me something to blog about when the ideas box is empty.
Elaine asked if you would see the beautiful jumper Viv sent me.
Yes, you will. You would have seen it yesterday but the self-portrait I took of me wearing it was so awful, I didn’t want to share it. As I have shown you some horrendous pictures of me in the past, you know it must be bad.
I would have taken a photo of the jumper on its own but I was wearing it and I didn’t want to take it off. I haven’t taken it off since it arrived, except for sleeping and showering (which I needed to do because I haven’t taken off the jumper since it arrived). The only reason you get a pic today is because I’m blogging in my pyjamas (if my ideas box stays empty, you may get a post about my pyjamas. I’m definitely planning one about my slippers).
Here it is:
I love it. Chunky cable knit with an owl – how could I not? Best gift ever. Thank you again, Viv.
I also received virtual gifts. Elizabeth gave me an amazing doodle:
“Happy Belated Birthday to you! 
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¸¸.•*¨*•░H░A░P░P░Y░(¯`’•.¸ *♥♥♥* ¸.•’´¯) ░B░I░R░ T░H░D░A░Y░ (¯`’•.¸*♥♥♥*¸.•’´¯) Hope you enjoyed YOUR special day!
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╚╩╩╩╣╔╣╔╩╗║ ╚╩╩╩╣╔╣╔╩╗║ ╚═╩╩╝╚═╩╩╩═╩╩╩╗║
¸.•*¨*•.♪♫♫♪Happy Birthday .♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸ ♥Happy Birthday to youuuuu ♪♫•*¨*•.¸.•*¨*•♫
˜”*°•.˜”*°•.˜”*°•.★★.•°*”˜.•°*”˜.•°*”˜”
Momopolize gave me a link to the greatest cake ever made:
See the decorations at the bottom? If you don’t know what they are, go here for a close-up.
I received many, many good wishes from you, my lovely readers; thank you. I really do appreciate them.
And finally, this, from Janie Jones:
You’re so ugly,
You’re so ugly,
You’re such an ugly child.
The clothes you wear are way out of style.
You look like an ape every time that you smile.
Oh how I hate you,
You alligator bait, you.
Why don’t you dry up and die?
You’re just a knock-kneed, pigeon-toed, worn out shoe,
There was a curse on your family and it fell on you.
Your teeth are yellow,
You don’t smell mellow,
You’re such an ug-aaa-leee chiiiiiild!
She must have seen that photo I suppressed.
As Miss Whiplash commented, my friends sure do know how to show their appreciation. Go on over to Janie’s original post and thank her for me.
And no abuse! She totally gets me. I thought it was hilarious. I’m considering eating a Malteser in her honour. I might take a photo of me doing it.
On the other hand, I don’t want to get chocolate on my lovely new jumper…
The Laughing Housewife 
The jumper was ‘ace’ not too sure about the poem but as she is your friend I guess she knows you well enough to insult you and get away with it
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That’s it exactly 🙂
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It is indeed a most wonderful jumper! I can see why you wouldn’t want to take it off. 🙂 Clever Viv.
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I saw the most fabulous cake recently, at a friend’s lunch party – it was a square chocolate cake, edged with two-finger KitKats standing upright. The KitKats came a little way above the top of the cake and the resulting area was filled entirely with….Maltesers! I wish I had taken a photo. It was delicious in case you were wondering… 🙂
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That sounds like a cake for me to try and make next year.
Tilly, you’re a rascal. ‘Nuff said.
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Who? Me? Why? 😉
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Drooling…
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Beautiful jumper, what a cleaver knitter Viv is, I don’t think I’d have taken it off either. How’s the Malteser diet going by the way?
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I didn’t knit this one.
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Oh never mind, it is still a beautiful jumper all the same.
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Extremely well. I’m starting to resemble one…
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Just beautiful! A skill I admire so very much. I’d love to learn.
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It takes a special kind of person to enjoy that birthday song, I am so glad you found it as funny as I do. Alas, I cannot take credit for writing it. I don’t know the author, but we used to sing it in our high school choir for birthdays. For some reason people were a lot less offended being sung that song by a 100 person choir then they are by one lone person…
Love the jumper, I would ask Whooo sent it to you, but you already told us it was Viv.
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😀 xx
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I love cable knit sweaters, yours is beautiful. I’m glad that you were treated like the queen that you are Tilly. You see how you make so many people smile every day. It is only right that you reap the rewards.
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Gimmee that jumper before your Malteser it!
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Too late!
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Wow, Viv is a real Knitwit. 🙂 That jumper is stunning beyond words. Lucky you. The cake is…Um…very colourful and it bit young for you. As for the poem, I would have cried and cried and sent Janie Jones to her brother Davy’s locker. 🙂
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I cried with laughter. Does that count? 🙂
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What I want to know is, why you Brits call jumpers jumpers and we Yanks call them sweaters? That has always puzzled me. Jumpers to us are sleeveless dresses worn over a shirt or blouse and usually used for school uniforms. How strange our language is. By the way, it is a beautiful jumper.
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What you call a jumper, to us is a pinafore dress.
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Me too. I wonder why the big difference in vocab, there, and alsothink it is beautiful, whatever it is. 🙂
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Because you won the war in 1776! When you declared yourselves free of British tyranny, that included language. You set about changing awkward spellings and using what you considered to be more sensible words. But you got purse and pocketbook wrong – it’s a handbag and a purse 🙂
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Now if it had had a chicken on it, it would have gone with the rubber egg. Just saying. 😉
I have never been able to knit. My mother despaired of me. I have always admired people who can create beautiful things with their own hands. Viv has so much talent.
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So that is what you call a jumper. I thought a jumper was a pair of pants connected to a square over the bodice connected to a pair of straps over the shoulders and down the back. At any rate, it is lovely.
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I think that’s a jump suit….
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I hear, you Viv… you didn’t knit it… but you did send it and it’s lovely!
Regarding the Malteser cake, I’m now telling myself off because we visited the UK during the summer and I *totally forgot* to buy some so that I could find out what they taste like.
Talk about “duh!” (smacks palm to forehead).
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Send me your address and I’ll sort you out.
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Love the sweater! I used to collect owl figurines.
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That’s kind of sweet 🙂
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Beautiful sweater! I bet you’ll be wearing it all winter long. And spring. And summer. Does it ever get warm where you live? 😉
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They say so. Sixteen years and still no evidence…
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I’m so happy you liked the cake/cupcakes!!! It was totally the glitter, wasn’t it?? Hope they tasted good. 😉
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Funny part that I forgot to tell you…I saw that photo about a week ago and thought “I need to show that to Tilly Bud” before I even knew your birthday was coming up. As usual, I got distracted and didn’t send it…but once I realized it was ACTUALLY your birthday, I knew I HAD to!
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You have perfect timing 🙂
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No, it was totally the Maltesers 😀
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That is a lovely jumper and after our recent trip to the UK it’s so cold you certainly need it!
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I do 🙂
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Rude friends are the best kind
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I wouldn’t want to take it off either – I love it! Viv is a good friend to send it to you.
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She is 🙂
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I love the silhouette owl on the front of your jumper. Maybe I should try doing something like that…*thinks* How can I get Buffy to stay quiet?
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Find her a vampire to slay?
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Excellent gift! Lucky you! 🙂
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Miam I want part of this awesome cake!
The jumper is so lovely indeed! The owl in the middle is so cute and the colour is wearable with anything.
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