happy birthday jane !

not everyone gets to celebrate their birthday at 3.15am, but jane did.  sort of.   thanks to the all night rain our electrics fused again which meant kezia and me crashing around the house with torches finding which circuit had tripped.  it turned out to be our bedroom lights so there must be a leak in the roof somewhere, which isn’t very good in a flimsy wooden house.  so we’ve got the letting agents on to it (again)

we eventually got back to bed (if not to sleep) and then it was morning proper.  thankfully it had stopped raining by then

the girls got jane various bath smelling things

and her friends got her this lovely ceramic wall hanging thing

which depicts new zealand things

i got jane this vegetarian muffin.  i had the choice between bacon muffin and vegetarian so it was tricky choice.  i think she was pleased.  i didn’t even have to take the price off it as i got it for free from a cafe that was closing for the day

of course that’s not all i got her.  she’s going to buy some boots. and i got her a bath bomb which is (hopefully) not as dangerous as it seems

as soon as i got home i had to go out again to a band practice.  the video below contains one of the songs we’re doing on sunday.  it has a rather elaborate bass line which i think i’ve just about learnt.  everyone else is SO good in the band it’s a real challenge to keep up.  which is a good thing i guess.  (the soundtrack is of the proper people doing it, not our band)