Birthday memories

When you are a kid your birthday and Christmas day are the best days of your year, you cannot sleep with the excitement but sadly it`s all so different when you grow up. I have had 21 birthdays with Mr N and he always buys me a "joke" gift - I practise my "oooh how lovely" face the night before I unwrap The greatest hits of AHA or an SAS novel he really wants to read. Why do I put up with it? Because I Love him that is why and I know a K and C (kiss n cuddle) from Matty is all I need everyday. I do treat everyday as if it`s my birthday- get out the Cava and eat that cake because noone knows when they`re going to call last orders at the bar!! I am going to have a feast tonight with my best friend Emma and her special family and we will laugh about our eccentric husbands and put on red lipstick and drink too many sherries. Life is beautiful even when you`re 40 and 3/4.

OTT Malteser cake

4oz butter
500g milk chocolate
more choc to melt over the top
2tbs syrup
2 big bags of maltesers
7oz crushed digestive biscuits

OMG- the diet police need not read any further!!!
Melt the butter , chocolate and syrup in a pan and add the biscuits . Press into a tin and press in the Maltesers. Chill in the fridge til solid and then melt some more white/milk chocolate and drizzle over the top. This treat is over the top - just like me and just what a birthday should be like.