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Weekending - Christmas and my birthday

 On Friday we kicked off the weekend with our now traditional run down the beach - and the  I worked from home for the day. I had my parents for dinner, and since it was the Friday before my birthday I made my traditional, and favourite, meal - chicken soup, chicken mains and chocolate mouse for dessert. Yum.

On Saturday I went to my last normal Pole class for the term - I'm doing some workshops in this final week before Christmas, which should be fun. Then I went to Milk the Cow (a cheese restaurant) with some of my faves:

When we came home I decided to start a new spinning project, spinning up these beauties:

 Sitting and spinning is one of the most relaxing things I know how to do and this is Ixchel fibre, so it's got a lot of interest and a variety of fibres.

Dinner was a delicious celebration of me at Future Future a delicious modern Japanese restaurant. I got a candle with my dessert!

Sunday was my actual birthday, and also Leon's family Christmas. On the way to the train station we went to the Triennial at the National Gallery. There was lots to see and lots to make us think. I really like this chair shaped monster:

And then it was off to the suburbs for family time and delicious food.

A very fun, celebratory weekend. I'll be back on Wednesday to tell you about everything I was knitting and reading during this busy weekend.


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