Birthday! dinner! wow!

Today I had a birthday...I wonder if blog settings automatically update.
Anyway I am now definately 55 years old, slightly pissed (UK) and totally stuffed (with food).
Great.
Especially as we went to a restaurant booked for us by lovely daughter (in the trade) and got special treatment....about four mini courses of special treatment ( an oyster each with champagne jelly and caviar??!!, smoked ham with celeriac and foie gras which we sent back because we don't do that one)and Happy Birthday Mig written in chocolate on our pudding plate (we'd both run out of space by then but we managed to do it justice (Bitter chocolate sorbet, pistachio and something fudge and toffee banana). All washed down and maybe stirred up a bit with a very nice perfumy Pinotage.
Also today I bought boots. Very stupidly wore them immediately all round town. (the rain was pouring in through the tops of my trainers) Had to wear them out to dinner also as you can't really got to a smart restaurant in a silk skirt and either trainers or (this time of year) sandals.
No problem...as soon as we got home, my feet exploded out of them and are now cooling down and spreading out nicely. By tomorrow morning I shold be able to gather up the bits and squeeze them back into some sort of footwear.It's really stormy and wet tonight...I shouldn't be surprised if the oak tree loses all its leaves by morning so took a quick last picture yesterday in the sun.