A Curious Girl: Mum's birthday! Happy birthday Mum

It's my mummy's birthday :D

Neil's party was excellent. Did I tell you about that? On Thursday night I went around his house for a party - we were treated to some excellent music (Neil on fiddle, violin and keyboard... not at the same time, his brother occasionally on clarinet and his dad on guitar). Neil played 'Roxanne' in memory of his dead goldfish. Quiiite.

There was also some not so good music, most spectacularly Nora and Dora which he dueted with Michelle (yes, Michelle! I used to write about her a lot but she left my school in September or October, I think, and I've hardly seen her since). Michelle was dressed magnificently as Nora, a purple velvet-ish blouse with long trailing sleeves, and a spiky dog-collar style choker. She had pale skin (thanks to some talcum powder) and dark red lipstick.

Dora (played by Neil), on the other hand, was dressed in standard 'Chav' with some excellent huge gold earrings (actually made from gold card, and so contained even less gold than the average Chav earring, if that is possible), and a necklace with a huge pendant, made from a spray-painted plastic packet. I wish I'd been bothered to take a picture! Their music, on the other hand, was awful (deliberately so). Lucy (little ginger Lucy, not Wucy) persuaded us to stage a mass walk-out, but not everyone left. However the reaction was highly amusing, especially went we went back to get some food, and left carrying it with us)

We watched Mr. C's birthday message to Neil, which was highly amusing, and played Whose line is it anyway?. Ricci filmed the event, and there was much singing along to Monty Python.

All in all, a great evening.

I stayed around Grandma's that night. I love it around her house; there's something wonderfully constant about the thought that I've slept in that spare bedroom when I've stayed over when I was six, and when I was fourteen and sharing it with Nicky (bunkbeds!), and the only thing that's really changed is she doesn't come up to read me a bedtime story and kiss me goodnight anymore :). (Actually I like being tucked up in bed by Grandma, I miss that :) We still kiss goodnight but when I'm still downstairs) I even still have the cute little elephant toothbrush I used to leave aroud there because I would always forget to pack one. It's not been used much, so since I didn't pack a toothbrush (!) actually because the only one I could find was my head to the electric one which I can't take with me, I used the elephant one.

We watched the opening of the Commonwealth Games (poor Zimbabwe, always going second to last) and then the news. Did you see the stuff about another impending famine in Southern Africa? What can we do about it? It's fellow human beings... I couldn't get the pictures out of my head, the adults and the children with their swollen bellies and bony arms.

Sort of puts my own worries into perspective, really.

Things I should write about - Asil, Mum's birthday party.

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