Thirty

I have attended a few 30th birthday parties over the last year and there are a good few more coming up this year too, including one this weekend. The person celebrating their 30th birthday this weekend is in the process of renovating his house which comes with quite a large garden too. For his birthday he was lucky enough to have a group of friends who will do (pretty much) anything as long as they are fed! Of course we all wanted to help out Mr 30 especially as he and his wife are expecting their first baby in June, as well as being fed and so that is what we did.

After a beans on toast breakfast at the in-laws we randomly decided to do a supermarket shop and then got stuck into some gardening (weeding - me) and general demolition (Mr VST). A tea break was quickly followed by a barbecue on Mr 30's new gas barbecue which I have decided is the definition of middle age. I believe that when man has given up the battle between fire and food he is indeed middle-aged. Us veggies, of which there were three, were treated to quorn veggie burgers with plastic cheese and ketchup and also some rather nice breadcrumb covered vegetable filled burgers.

Back to a bit of work, albeit less enthusiastically on the part of some due to beer drinking, and a few hours later there was a clearer garden, newly erected shed and plaster-boarded room.

We were then fed again! A massive roasted pork joint was carved up and consumed by the meaties and two vegetarian pizzas were consumed by three veggies. Sides consisted of potato salad, rocket salad and garlic bread on the side - mmm.

Mr 30's Mum made him two birthday cakes. They were both the same but she had to make sure that there would be enough to feed the hordes and to keep him going all week. It, well both, were the most amazing, triple-layer chocolate cakes consisting of chocolate sponge with Cadbury's flake, fondant icing in between the sponge layers and then covered in Cadbury's Dairy Milk fondant icing. One word - Ah-May-Zing!!