If you want to send me a card at a completely different time of year that'd be cool. (As the former parent of a child lost to adoption I find christmas a very difficult time of year.) If you sent me an un-birthday card, chances would be that you'd get the day right!

I don't do christmas and I mostly don't do birthdays. I don't like the pressure to give, which so often means that people give each other things they don't want or need. If someone gives me a present for whatever reason (and they rarely do, for I am a very spikey recipient of presents), I do not feel under obligation to keep it if I don't like it, and I will pass it on to someone who *does* want it.

I much prefer to do nice favours for people and feed them healthy food that I have made. That warms the cockles of my heart.

Oh, and you reminded me to wear my peace poppy this year.