I’ve been telling people that my children are seven and nine for some months now but Duncan has now actually reached the first of these milestones. His party was this weekend and, having spent the past month or so engrossed in Asterix books, that was the theme of his party (despite most of his friends having no idea who Asterix is!). The class teddy was brought to the party and is featured here in his Obelix plaits. The other attendees seemed to prefer the lively party games that Christine had contrived, from hunt the Roman to newspaper snowball fights and stuffing the balloons in to Obelix’s XL thermal tights!
Whilst the internet is full of Asterix themed birthday cakes, I wasn’t keen to embark on the necessary sugar craft to recreate any of the characters. We eventually settled on a Roman shield – a job made easier by large quantities of coloured icing. We got away with just one cake this year as it was sufficiently large to last the couple of days until his actual birthday!
Duncan’s doesn’t like to set his sights low and suggested two ideas for presents: a drone and a metal detector. He actually ended up with two of the latter although I don’t think either is going to allow him to find any Roman hoard. The drone was also probably not what he was expecting as it’s all of 2-inches across. First attempts suggest that there’s certainly some skill (that neither of us possessed) required to fly it!