Extended birthday celebrations

Why have one birthday, my dears, when you can have several? Particularly for such a dreadful one as 30. I think you have to do it in style to make up for the shock of now being officially "not young" any more.

So apart from a nice Friday night at Vivat Bacchus (fabulous cheese room, wonderful wine list, excitingly close to the office) just before I went on holiday, I also then managed an extended celebration on the Saturday as well.

This involved a lovely lunch, followed by a trip to a ridiculously OTT cake shop (see slightly blurry pic). And then we took the cakes, in their huge waxy box complete with ribbons, into LAB bar in Soho.

And ate them with cocktails. Mmm-hmm. That's how you do birthdays, people.