Cake time

It was our gym leader A's birthday today, so the rest of us gym enthusiasts set up a secret WhatsApp group to plan a surprise for her after this week's gym session. Days later, A posted to the main group: "It's my birthday, I'll bring some drinks along on Wednesday!" I bet she suspected we were planning something. Anyway, everyone said they'd bring a little something, and of course there was masses of food. This is a small fraction of the sweet offerings -- there was a birthday cake as well of course.

A made us do a full hour of gym first. She worked us hard to balance out the cake. We had a merry time eating, drinking, and chatting. Many very unflattering photos were taken -- I will spare you them. You get a still life on the run instead.

It's our wedding anniversary today! Quite a low key one compared to the last couple of years. We went to the market in the morning and bought easy food for a picnic in the garden -- it was bustling on this sunny morning. We bought some viennoiseries and sat at the cafe in the sunshine to eat them with a coffee (lunch was going to be late as I had carelessly made a hairdresser appointment for 2:30). On the way back we stopped at the garage to pick up the now repaired Fiat. It's good that it was an easy fix, but the downside of it not being the glass that was broken is that it wasn't covered by the insurance. 300 euros, ouch.

My drastic haircut was done and dusted in 20 minutes as usual, so we were in the garden by 3 pm. It was a windy day, but in our little sheltered corner it was very pleasant -- we ate lunch and then fell asleep to the sound of birdsong.