I was beginning to worry that I was no longer capable of having a proper hangover, but a birthday involving two types of wine, scotch, corona and dancing seems to have put paid to THAT concern. Got an alien that you plant in water and it MAGICALLY grows from bro and Sarah, and a clock that runs off fuel cells from mum - I didn’t read the instructions and hence it’s not been really keeping time, but it’s impressive that its digits are displayed powered simply by some water poured in the back. Nearly as cool as The Spud Server. The alien has grown bigger than its containing cup, so I’m going to have fun watching parts of it shrink at the same time as other parts of it grow - muhahahah…

It’s a mark of being old that one of the highlights of the day was getting up to speed with the housework in the morning…