Happy Birthday

Ah, the maps arrived, and what maps, 2 sheets of St George Littledale's foray into Tibet in 1896 and a sheet of Kham from Eric Teichman, c. 1922. Sheer delight.

Nora is 2 today, the day was spent in a helter skelter of presents and birthday cake. We celebrated, of course, in the afternoon once nursery was over. The morning rush is mad enough without added complications. I was busy all afternoon preparing a birthday cake in the form of a fish - anything she eats at the moment is, according to her, "PEIX", fish in Catalan. Salmon colored butter icing, chocolate eye, nose and mouth and her name in chocolate icing in the middle. In all the scramble to open the presents the candles burnt down to nearly nothing and the burnt wicks were blown all over the sofa with bits of wick and saliva also decorating the cake. A jolly good time had by all!