My 46th birthday

Lunch at The Botanica with Yogi and Chris

Handmade card made by Aimee

Thank you dear Musketeers for making my birthday so special.

Thank you for a delicious lunch at The Bot; great company, great conversation and great food. The Holy Trinity.

Thank you dear Aimee for your beautiful card and beautiful words.  You're so creative with your cards; a real art.  Thank you also for the lovely plant and precious stone; now basking in the evening sun with my others plants.

Thank you Chris for your beautiful plants too. They're in good company too.

Thank you Yogi for your "cheque in the mail."  Got me intrigued.  I'm going to tickle Srini till he gives up your question to him !!

Thank you all for your friendship. It's priceless; beyond words.  I feel so truly blessed to have you all in my life.

All for One and One for All!

G xoo

Hi boet

Just wanted to wish you a wonderful birthday today!!  Hope you do something special with your friends and that you have a great day.

Thanks for being the best brother ever and for always believing in me and for being my biggest supporter.  You always know what to say to make a person feel special and worthy. Love you to the moon and back!!

Xx Jo💕

Just about to go to bed but want to send birthday greetings so you get them early on the 29th.  We hope you have something special planned and that you have a lovely day and it will herald the start of a good year ahead.   

Much love, Mum & Mike

Many many happy returns of the day my friend 😃 life is short so don't forget to eat the cake in the fridge 😎   Srini

Birthday Happy Birthday Graeme to one of the best humans I know on this planet. Have a special day. Will see you soon.  Cheers Chris

Chris's birthday party at The Bot

Thank you so much for that very special lunch the beautiful card, the cake, the ebook, the music and most of all your treasured friendship. I feel very privileged to know you all and each of you brings something precious into my life that's counting little Mac as well

Love you all.  Cheers, Chris

45th birthday

We were going to celebrate my birthday at the park, but the weather turned out to be a bit cold and blustery.  So we met at Chris's place instead.  It was a lovely day.  I really am blessed with such a lovely circle of friends. Such a gift.  After the party, we took a walk to Wendy's Secret Garden - a place I absolutely love.

Party at Chris's Place

Chris hiding the body of a dead relation !

Walk to Wendy's Secret Garden

Hi there wonderful beings

I'm having a very informal get together at Milson's Park in Milson's Point this Sunday (27 September) to celebrate my birthday.

If you're free, please come along and join us.  It's a lovely spot on the water and hopefully there'll even be a couple of kayaks available if you're feeling energetic.

If the weather turns out to be non conducive to such festivities, we've got the lovely flat of my friend Chris, close by.

We're meeting from noon on. Bring some "picniccy" type food to share.

Hope to see you there,

Graeme



Hi there

Thanks so much for coming yesterday and creating such a special day.  Thank you for your well wishes and gifts and cards but most of all for your lovely presence, for sharing the space.  It's such a gift to be able to share the adventure of life and the inner journey with such beautiful, special people.

Thank you Chris for inspiring the idea, providing the venue and for the delicious cake !

Some of us made our way to Wendy's Secret Garden in Milson's Point late yesterday afternoon.  What a wondrous, beautiful, serene place for the soul.  If you haven't been there, I can't recommend it enough.

Hope to see some of you on Tuesday night.

Love,
G

Celebrating Jilly's birthday

Jilly had a big milestone birthday yesterday and it was so special getting to share it with her and my other dear friends who I have met through her and her Tuesday night Eckhart Tolle group. It was a beautiful day.

Jilly, radiant as always.  Youngest 80 year old in spirit I've ever met!!

Wonderful friends, who I see at meditation on Tuesday nights (Shushann, Craig, Chris, Desmond)

More beautiful friends (Soni, Karin, Abe, Peter, Lydia, Christina)

Jilly's lovely family and adopted family.

Chris did a really fun (and impressive) magic trick with the cake, making it disappear, and then appear again.  He's such a born entertainer!

Cards and drawings all hand made for Jilly by various people.

The family celebrating Jilly's favourite colour: purple!!

Dear Chris. 

A fun poem that Mandy (Jilly's daughter) wrote.

Jilly reading the poem to the delight of all.

Jilly reading her poem

Gorgeous Jessie (Mandy's dog) who stayed in the car most of the party!

Sue's birthday treat

I treated Sue to lunch at The Oaks for her 70th birthday.  A delicious meal and good company as always.  The Oaks was very quiet which was nice for us.

Post Dubai - Granny Sheila comes to visit for Matt's 12th birthday

Thanks, Jo, for this post...

After a week away, the family finally returned, safe and sound (but tired and exhausted).  It was great that Sheila, Beryl and Gert could come back to Cape Town for 3 days and to share in Matthew's birthday celebrations.

Sue's 70 th birthday

We all celebrated Sue's 70 th at a wonderful restaurant overlooking the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House. One of the best views in Sydney!  It was a fun and delicious evening with lovely people.  I had grilled calamari risotto (yum) and Sue brought a divine Pavlova.  All washed down with beautiful champaign.  Gorgeous!!

After the party, I snuck into Luna Park and took some snaps.

Liz's 40th birthday party

I went to this wonderful party on 21st June.  An amazing meal at a top restaurant (Postales) with delicious Tapas and Paella. Then to a nightclub where there were two hen parties trying to outdo each other with sexy moves on a stage (I was one of only 3 guys in the whole place!)  Then 4 of us smuggled ourselves into Liz's very upmarket hotel suite for a fun (but innocent) slumber party.  All in all, a great time.

No party is too posh for a leap!!

Dear Liz 

Happy Birthday!  Happy Everyday!! 

I wish you sunshine and happiness as you continue to paint a wonderful picture for your life.   May your world be full of colour and may your crayons never melt ...

As always, a couple of quotes! 

• Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.  Don Miguel Ruiz 
• Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye 
• You have your colors, you have your brushes, paint paradise and walk right in. Nikos Kazantzakis 
• Life is about using the whole box of crayons.   Ru Paul

May you paint a beautiful life for yourself full of fun, laughter, adventure, wonder, inspiration, wisdom, friendship and love. 

Thank you so much for your friendship.  You have been a major contributor to many of my most treasured experiences and memories this year.

Big birthday hugs, 

Graeme 

Celebrating my 44th birthday with Sue at The Oaks

It was lovely to spend time with Sue as always and getting to hear all about her recent trip to Poland, The Arctic and Iceland.  The highlight food wise was the enormous apple, raspberry and rhubarb crumble.  Almost as good as mum used to make!

A lovely birthday collage from Jo

So very special. So many great memories here.  So great to share my life's journey with such a wonderful sister.

Sam's 14th birthday