Happy Birthday To, erm, Me! Must Mean Christmas Is Coming!
It’s my birthday today. Hooray! Birthday flowers, birthday balloons, birthday greetings cards all round! Oh, and I’ll have some “healthy” chocolate too - I am getting old after all. Right - that’s the search engine optimisation bit out of the way. I’m 33 today. Ouch! 11 years til my next symmetrical birthday. Best enjoy this one while I can. Apparently I share the date with Britney Spears. Hmmm. Hardly Albert Einstein or William Shakespeare, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers.
The thing I like about my birthday is that it signals (to me only, obviously) that Christmas is officially on its way. Before the 2nd December, I see the decorations go up, I hear the people moaning about the adverts on telly but it all just slides over me and doesn’t go in. It might as well be another language. That is until the 2nd of Dec when my birthday comes round and I start to get into the swing of it. Maybe it’s the card that I get from my grand mother every year that kick starts the good will - 85 years old and every year a card with a £20 note appears on my doorstep like clockwork. Doesn’t matter how old you are, you’ll always enjoy receiving a card with a £20 note in it. :)
Anyway, my unerring march towards old age gives me the opportunity to point out that our Christmas flowers range is live and kicking and bigger and better than ever. Among last year’s most popular were the alternative Christmas Tulips, the traditional Christmas Basket and the Winter Reds Christmas cube. Of course if you want to impress and / or upstage your siblings by sending the biggest and best, then you can’t do much better than go for the Christmas Celebration. It’s the Daddy. Or Father Christmas. Sorry. That was terrible.
So what’s with the bicycle picture? Well, that’s back to my birthday. Having woken up way too early I decided that rather than go back to sleep and pretend I’m still 21 I’d brave the sub zero London weather and frosty roads in a vain attempt to prove to myself that I’m not over the hill. So I decided on a 13 mile round trip to Tower Bridge on my bike, along the Embankment. During peak flower delivery periods it’s all hands to the pumps at Arena, and we all get out on the road delivering, typically on frosty London days like today’s. So my early morning ride was a nice reminder of fun days past. Hopefully when I next get the chance to take more pics like this during the Christmas rush, I’ll be in a nice warm van and not on my bicycle.
Merry Christmas shopping!
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Filed under: Christmas Flowers, Distribution, General on December 2nd, 2008
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Happy Birthday!!
Live each day as if it were your last,
and garden as though you will live forever.
- Author Unknown
Happy Birthday!
I look forward to finding alternative ideas to the boring poinsetta. It’s so hard to find creativity around the holidays!
Thanks to both of you. Much appreciated!
I have a sore head today, so it definitely goes down as a good one!
:)
Hope you had plenty of fun and nonsense and a good few fairy cakes Mr. I think you are converted! x
It’s nice to have a birthday in December.
Wishing you a Happy Belated Birthday!
Thanks, Linda & Joseph. You’re right, December is a fun month for a birthday. I feel a bit sorry for my cousin though - 24th December is just too close for his bday not to be subsumed into Christmas. Ah well, he’ll live!
:)