An 'official' birthday and and an actual one gave us the chance to spend time with old friends.
A fantastic walk from Praa Sands to the Victoria at Perranuthnoe and back on a wonderful sunny January day was only marred by a fractured leg after some mud-sliding.
A dinner performance of The Shipwrecked Daughter or the Mermaid Revealed allowed some of its authors at last to understand the intracies of the plot - or even to understand that there was a plot.
Much laughter at one birthday card ...
Don't miss the pictures on the right: Early 2010