Birthday girl

My whole travel dilemma neatly encapsulated in the two birthday cards sent to me by my parents today. The first: a charming watercolour of a black and white cat asleep on a cottagey window sill with the caption 'home is where my cat is' and a big message inside saying 'don't leave me!'.

The second: A simple, inspirational card featuring the Bette Midler quote - 'Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she can conquer the world'. They know me so well.

I think it's safe to say they don't want me to go, but they do, but they don't.

Or it could just be they don't particularly want to look after Charlesworth, who will undoubtedly wee everywhere, pull out his fur and scratch things.

Anyway. Tis done now. No turning back and all that. Am getting more excitable by the day. Hope I don't peak too soon!

Nothing much planned for today. I did get a lovely breakfast in bed this morning with fab cards and pressies and I know there's a nice bottle of bubbly chilling ready for tonight. I have half a day off tomorrow and we're going to submit the itinerary to BA fares dept. for the tax calculations. If all goes well we should have our RTW tickets early next week! What more could a girl ask for on her birthday?