Happy Birthday Christine

What a wonderful afternoon, my friend Christine who I’ve known since the early 90s and has been my agent for film and tv work and got me the Gravity film soundtrack turned 60 today, we were invited to her sister Rosemarie Ford’s beautiful home for food and drinks, I’m not drinking because I’m on antibiotics but I was pleased really.
It was lovely meeting her Mum Elsie who now lives with Rosemarie and Robert after living her whole life in Yorkshire, inevitably it made me think of my Mum.
Great to see Jodie Brooke Wilson and Juliette Roberts again and Mark who owns the Swan pub in the village.
I met so many lovely people and the weather was glorious.
Christine took Jodie, Stanley (Juliette’s Husband) and I around the garden for a walk, a beautiful pool and tennis court and a river running along the end of the garden.
Just idyllic.
Mark Graydon played piano and I sang Natural Woman then Juliette and I sang Lean On Me together then Jodie sand I will Always Love you for her Dad who passed away a month ago and would have been 90 today, it was very moving. Then Mark and his wife Lisa sang Listen to the Music. A good old fashioned sing song!
Champagne, pavlova and cheesecake and a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday.

I treated myself to an Uber home and spent the evening with Gulli, we watched a funny movie about Basketball starring Will Farrell and half of Strictly then Mac and Zeb came back from the London Tattoo Convention where they’d been filming all day.