A day of birthdays

Angus is 14 today. Nick has given him a record player and a bag of records. Claire and I added some more records. And Megan got him another one. He was happy: "I thought I was only going to have 2 records to play." He's working his way through Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Lou Reed, Jimi Hendrix, Violent Femmes and more.

The afternoon was spent building a mountain bike from the parts that Angus has been buying over the past few weeks. There are a few things we're missing, but all the major components went together well, and it's looking like an interesting bike in an unconventional combination of orange, white and blue.

Later, we headed to Mithas for a birthday dinner. Unfortunately, Angus decided to go to a friend's party rather than come on his birthday dinner, so Claire, Megan and I celebrated in his absence. The waiter asked if it was a special occasion, and when we told him that the birthday boy was absent, he asked when Megans birthday was. "Next month," we said, and he brought Megs a piece of birthday carrot cake for pudding.

The day was rounded off at Ewans's 50th. The usual suspects, and a few extras, were there along with food and booze galore. Claire and Megan stayed for an hour before heading home home (much to Megan's disgust). I stayed to yak and participated in the depletion of the beer stocks. Things eventually got so desperate that Geoff was forced into opening another bottle of bubbly. It's terrible when you have to slum it.