Jamie arrived home from working in London and I went to pick her up frome Crewe Station as always and it always makes me smile when I see her even though as I sat at home 30 minutes previous I was feeling really poorly and fell asleep on the chair in the kitchen and all I wanted to do is go to bed.

We drove home ordered takeout on the way and picked it up before going home. She had mentioned that a package should have arrived while she was away and I said there was a pile of packages but she said one of them was my birthday present…!

Wow just wow when she handed it to me and I ripped the bag open I immediately knew what it was and that I would have designed EXACTLY the same jersey if I had bought it myself, and a smile broke on my face that was involuntary it was there because I was REALLY happy!

It’s always great to get to 5pm on a Friday after a work week, and it is made even better now that the clocks have changed and the sun has been out all day. Jamie has committed to getting more steps every day, so she has started coming with me and Billy each night on my go-to walk around Middlewich that I do every morning.

On a Friday, we divert near the end of our walk and call at the Kings Lock for a pint as an end of week reward. It’s something to look forward to, and this week, we were able to sit outside for the first time, too. Reagan and Lincoln joined us at the pub, and we decided on a Chippy tea afterwards, making it a perfect end to our week!

My Fridays will change beyond this one being my last at the Willows, so making the most of every WFH day is important because I’m not sure when my next will be….?

A normal morning for a birthday because I had to work so when I left I didn’t bother opening the cards sat on kitchen table preferring to wait until everyone was with me. Work was OK although things are really starting to change and it was wierd to hear the truth coming out about what has been going on even though I knew it was…!

When I got home I was locked out of the blooming house, what a great birthday so far, but luckily for me I’d called at Lidl on the way home and me shed doesn’t need a key so it was cider, darts and some music while I waited.

Reagan appeared first and told me I had to wait before I could go into the house which confused me a tad because that’s what I was doing before she told me? As I entered the kitchen once instructed there was cake presents and the cards from earlier. Tea was gammon egg and chips (obvs) after opening my gifts I felt very spoiled.

I love my family and wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else than with them on my birthday.

A ska rockumentery, a Two Tone story, my high school life in music turned out to be nothing of the sort? We sat down to watch a BBC 6 part series about the Specials and ended up watching a drama about life in 1981 and how music was a way out from addiction poverty and terrorism with a sound track from the time.

I felt anxious once invested in the characters being portrayed willing them first to survive and eventually succeed, the writing so good it had you trying and in my case failing to guess the story. It contained so many sub plots twist and turns that even after watching the sixth episode I dreamt why it ended so horrifically for one of the villains because I wasn’t able to unravel it while watching the show.

5 stars would highly recommend