Her Pandemic Party

Yesterday was my 40th birthday.

Thanks to The Apocalypse™️, my splendiferous birthday celebrations were cancelled...along with every back-up plan I brainstormed for myself — from pamper massages to brunches to facials to girly cocktail bars, to just a simple cuppa tea in a bookshop cafè — all now banned.

There’s nowhere left to ‘go out’ anymore in the great pandemic of 2020. (Except, tragically, the ever-stretching Centrelink line, or the never-filling toilet paper aisle.)

I couldn’t even go over and HUG the woman who gave me life, since we are keeping a very safe distance. What ridiculous constraints on such a milestone.

Nonetheless, I managed to outwit the ‘social distancing’ embargo on celebratory joy…

My husband and I escaped to our own private waterfall, and there drank pink gin, while light rain misted over us!

I was also spoiled excessively by my family the whole day: received a ton of heart-melting handmade cards, bookmarks and artworks from my creative kiddos; my teenage son spent days making me a personalised board game (‘Sunflower Monopoly’); my husband gave me a 120 year-old antique ring; I had TWO birthday cakes; beautiful friends sent sublime bouquets from faraway; and, I was gifted my first pair of AirPods, so that I can ignore my children more effectively while “homeschooling” in the weeks ahead.

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You stink, coronavirus. But I found a way to be fabulous DESPITE you…

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Dearest reader, wherever and however you are taking shelter from this virus, I hope you can find a little grove of magic and beauty there too.

Look after each other,

xx Averil