Happy Birthday, handsome!

We went to the Jardin des Martels to celebrate Ben's birthday. You know what a great visit it was - now here are our presents! I wrapped them in some beautiful photos from a 2007 calendar that I'd been saving without knowing what I'd do with it. In tune with Angela's post, it was time to use up and get rid of stuff. We really liked the results: I gave Ben an original 1970s version of a book by one of his favourite authors - the military chap who wrote his 'Right Way to Make Jams'! This one is 'The Right Way to Grow Vegetables' and he is already impressed with the advice. I'm glad it's going to be useful rather than just a bit of fun...

Son 1 gave him some French guides to sea life - they've become very keen to identify the fishes and shells they've been seeing on the Mediterranean.

As a family we gave him a tree guide book - he'd been asking for one! So it was books all the way (thank you Amazons UK and France), except...

... Son 2's gift got returned in the post, and has been re-ordered to give to his dad by the end of this week. Thanks Amazon, but what a lot of fuss La Poste makes when you don't have a working gate bell! We've sorted the problem now...