Thunderthighs' Birthday Teas

My baby boy is thirty today, but birthday teas remain much the same (no guests though)

He was born on the same day as my cousin’s grand-daughter; she arrived first by a few hours.

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12 July 2009 at14.33

We are getting ready for Thunderthigh's 13th birthday party (still jelly frogs and chocolate cakes and squash) and the birthday boy is hoovering. I am a lucky mummy

12 July 2010 at 16.16

The birthday boy is home - trifle, jelly frogs and crispy cakes all done - most of the house hoovered (thanks Fester for the stairs) - now just to set the table and await his guests (4 or 6 still don't know)

Ollie Beaverbrook  Pass on our regards, Ben.  Hope the party goes swimmingly well.  Knee deep in trifle and drinks for the whole evening.  Then you'll have a real excuse to clean the carpet

Bentonbag  We replaced the downstairs carpet with laminate flooring a few years ago as there were new lifeforms developing in all the stuff that had sunk in.  Trifle was orange jelly with tinned oranges in, chocolate blancmange, vanilla whip, alpine strawberries from the garden and little coloured sprinkly things I call vermicelli.  Mummy & Daddy have pudding for the week.

Later

Ollie Beaverbrook  Assuming the birthday boy is now totally nackered and will be impossible to get out of the house on time for school tomorrow

Bentonbag  He's in the bath recovering from talking to his auntie on the 'phone.  He was up at 6, but to be fair he's really good at keeping regular hours.  Always was, as a babe in arms he fell asleep at 10.20am, 1.20pm and 10.30 bedtime - you could set your watch by him.  His brother on the other hand ....

12 July 2013 at 16.07

Now for Thunderthighs's birthday tea

FifiD  Chips?? X

Bentonbag  No that's tomorrow.  Pizzas, ham'n'cheese slice sandwiches, jam doughnuts, crisps, trifle (homemade by me with sponge slices, mandarin oranges, lime jelly, vanilla blancmange, chocolate whip and hundredsandthousands),
apple'n'blackcurrant squash and coffee.  

Setting the table and looking for something to serve the trifle Thunderthighs picked up a large spoon. 

"I think I'd better give it a wash first" says I. 

"Why?" 

"Well that's the spoon we used to scatter Uncle Stephen's ashes. It'll be perfectly clean, just needs a wash that's all".

Strangely he put it firmly back in the cutlery canteen.

FifiD  A Birthday Banquet !! His cousin-twin's new boyfriend is taking her to a Chinese restaurant.   

We've got M&S cup cakes one balloon and some bubbly wine. Cheers xxx

12 July 2020

Mrs Leftfoot, thank you and the girls for Thunderthighs's surprise gift and card.   

Please tell the girls my hair doesn't always look that mad.   

I clipped it up when I got out of bed to do the blancmange bit of the birthday trifle and hadn't got around to doing it. "No point" I thought "No one will see". 

Which is why you should always wear clean undies.

Drummerman  On your head???

Bentonbag  Many years ago my job involved researching media that clients might consider for advertising.  This led me to a copy of Vogue where models were pictured with panties on their heads.  As Guardian tv critic Nancy Banks-Smith once wrote "There is a section of Vogue called 'More Dash Than Cash' I always think the rest should be called 'More Money Than Sense'".

Dicky Brown  Years ago when I used to live in Morpeth, I regularly used to see a lady from either St. Georges or Northgate Hospital in the supermarket wearing a pair of knickers on her head. No one ever commented on what her hair looked like!

See Also 

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2021/08/thunderthighs-sings.html

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2021/08/thunderthighs-speaks.html