Been ill for a bit, I'm at work but still very tired. How is it possible to keep having almost 12 hours sleep and still feel tired? Had a blood test but I expect it's just a 'virus'. Had it for about three weeks, bit fed up now. Feel like a pathetic layabout. Ho hum.

We've had various things to eat from our garden lately, which is exciting. Had a few Alpine strawberries (small ones) that were especially nice floating in jelly. Ate half a marrow stuffed with chilli last night. And a baked suet pudding with blackberries. (I love suet, hooray for low fat vegetable suet!) Made an apple and redcurrant crumble as well, though the apple wasn't from the garden. I have some damsons, not sure what to do with those. I suspect we will get fed up with blackberries and marrows. And there's at least one pumpkin growing.

Went to a birthday celebration on Saturday - it was Rob's dad's 60th, Rob's sister Emma's birthday and also my 30th (this Friday coming up), so it was a combined celebration. I have a helium balloon with '30' on it, I like helium balloons. Yay! I don't think I'd ever met some of the people there - Rob's family is quite big. But I was on a table with Emma, Rob, and their cousins Angela and Elizabeth, who were both very good company. So it wasn't as scary as I thought it might be. :)

Not sure what I'll do to celebrate with friends, not feeling very energetic at the moment. We're hopefully having a family trip to Donington Park on Sunday. If the weather's like it was this weekend it'll be ok - looking a bit grim again today. You never can tell.

posted by Fiery Fred @ 12:52 PM