Birthday Options…
It turns out that it’s my birthday, which makes me blah-blah-blah years old.
My plan had been to spend the entire day in bed, drinking hot chocolate and eating truffles. Unfortunately, my whole family insist that I actually do something as a celebration, by which they appear to mean that I should haul my lazy butt out of bed and go on some kind of trip.
So, I have come up with a list of options in the hope that they’re all so awful that everyone will let me stay in bed.
1. The Somerset Levels Basket and Craft Centre
Not that I have anything against baskets. Or craft. But right now…
Yes, folks, it has been raining. I used to live in Somerset, although luckily for me not the part that tends to flood. I like Somerset. I really do. BUT a lot of it is on land that was historically under water. This appears to be the wettest part.
Number one option has got to be a no-go, right?
We’re definitely getting closer to the staying-in-bed-with-champagne-truffles option.
2. Big Pit
This is a tourist attraction in Wales. No, really. This is what we have. There are signs for it everywhere. Big. Pit.
Actually, from what everyone tells me, it’s absolutely fascinating and loads of fun. But. Big Pit.
Man, they need a marketing department. Maybe they could at least fake it by translating the name to Welsh (which, if my shaky Welsh is right, should be something like ‘pwll mawr’. On the other hand, that doesn’t sound much more appealing, does it?)
No one’s going to want to spend the day at somewhere called ‘Big Pit’ are they?
3. Mordor
I saw this documentary a few years back about the kind of birthday parties you can book in Mordor. (It was called The Return of the King, or something like that.)
Now, look, I like a good party as much as the next person. But that kind of thing? No. I don’t think so. Not at my party. That’s just weird.
So, those are my birthday options. Which would you choose? These or truffles dipped in hot chocolate?