A Busy Birthday.

For the past three days I've just been on this crazy birthday high, which has completely impaired my ability to string together an understandable sentence. The only thing which is bringing me down right now is the fact that I know I have to go into work tomorrow.

So on Wednesday it was my actual birthday, although it feels like the party hasn't really ended since then. I spent the day shopping in Reading with my Mum, she took me out to lunch, George took me out to dinner, and then we went onto the Windsor Castle open mic with some friends.

What I didn't realise was that some of my open mic friends and my Mum had devised a little surprise birthday party, with perhaps the biggest cake I have ever seen, shaped like a guitar (pictures to come soon!). I was up at the front of the pub playing 9 Crimes with Stu and Ginni when suddenly it all went quiet, my family appeared with the cake and everyone started singing happy birthday. It was so overwhelming that I actually started crying, which was very embarrassing when you're standing in full view of everyone wearing a bright pink "Eighteen!" sash.

Anyway, last night was possibly equally mad, as I met up with Dan who had arrived here from Switzerland that day, and we went to see Bon Jovi at Twickenham stadium. It was honestly one of the funniest gigs I have ever been to. We managed to sneak onto the bottom floor when our tickets were for one of the higher platforms, so we had a great view (pictures also to come soon!). I was quite ashamed at how few Bon Jovi songs I actually knew, but they played my favourite, 'Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars' so I was happy.

Then today Dan was back here again, to lay down some basic tracks for my album. We worked on three songs; 'Birthday Card' (about George), 'Summer Every Day' (about George), and a duet, 'I Don't Love You' (not about George). I was really pleased with how they turned out, even though I can be a little skepital about Dan's crazy ideas sometimes!

OH and I just realised (thankyou Alice) that I have been very neglectful on filling you in on my little hair scare from the beginning of the week. Well, my hair is now fixed... the guy at Marc Antoni re-dyed it for free after he saw what an awful job they did of it. Hurrah! (Pictures to come soon. I promise.)