So I am 35…whoopee dooo. All clap hands and pretend you are happy for me. I managed to get four cards this year (one of them was from Alex the Wonderdog, but I still haven’t figured out how he snuck out the house to buy it without me noticing). It was a pleasant enough day with plenty of nice presents and some shopping. A visit to the Bluewater shopping complex was a disappointment because the guitar shop there had closed down. OK – it was unlikely that I would have bought anything because they were prohibitively expensive, but I miss looking at the nice guitars. A shame that…
Of course, this birthday could never be as good as my 30th birthday, but what can a boy do. What can you do when your birthday is in the middle of winter? It’s cold and miserable and all you can do is traipse around the shops in the warm. About eight or so years ago, it was unusually warm on this day. So warm that I sported a T-shirt and we went to the seaside. That was certainly an interesting birthday. But today, it was cold damp and miserable…and that was just me feeling depressed about turning 35 and achieving nothing in this slack-arsed life of mine. Oh well, at least we are halfway there…
The best birthday present is yet to come because tomorrow night old Sir Alan “Nookie Bear’s Stunt Double” Sugar returns with another series of the excellent “The Apprentice”. It’s almost as good as the US version. I’d love to see Sugar and Trump do a special show pitting them against each other with a team of similarly inept wannabe business mugwumps.
Highlight of my day: ordering another bulk box of padded envelopes for future eBay sales. Oh yeah, this time it is serious.

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