Today is Anthony’s 78th birthday – February 4/1936. Ming and I didn’t do much for our January birthdays in terms of gifts because we decided to ‘save’ our birthdays for Anthony’s, if that makes sense. Ming is about to go and pick Anthony up from the nursing home to come to the farm for the afternoon. As Ants can’t deal with crowds anymore, I have just asked a sprinkling of people over; after all, it is a workday, not a weekend.
Ming suggested we get each other two presents each so he and I exchanged ours this morning. I will show you more of the ‘goods’ later when I have photos, but just want to show you what Ming got me!
Well, technically, the blue cheese is for Ants but we all know that I will eat most of it!
Ahhhh – cheese bliss!
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I love Jarlsberg! Happy birthday, Ants.
Best cheese in the world!
Yum … happy birthday Ants …
Thanks Ingrid!
Happy birthday to Anthony! Cheese is my weakness before sweets or anything….have a good time. xo
Me too re the cheese!
What a perfect gift! HAppy Birthday to all of you!!!! 🙂
I have had to freeze some of the cheese – so much of it!
You and Ming are Simply the Best!! Happy birthday Anthony!!
Thank you Tersia!
Enjoy your birthday celebrations! I do that as well with a couple of friends. Cheese-what a great gift! Yum!
Too much cheese though!
Looks lovely. The Brie and Camembert sold here is mostly French, although there are some Scottish and English made cheeses as well.
Hope he enjoyed it. Some Scottish malt whisky brings out the flavour of cheese!
Whisky – yes!
Nice malt whisky. The island whisky tastes a bit smokey as they dry the grain on peat fires.
My mother’s great grandmother came across an illicit whisky still in the hills of Skye when she was a young girl. She developed a taste for whisky as a result and had a small glass every night.
She was never really ill and lived to the age of 96 despite having 10 children. She always said there was nothing a wee drop of whisky could not cure. Like all islanders she spoke Gaelic as her first language and English as the second one.
ahh cheese, my favorite snack food!!!!! Happy Birthday Ants!!!
Thanks Terry!
Julie!!!! It’s my birthday too! Please tell him I am celebrating with him, across the big ocean, in California – can you see me raising my glass?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGELA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mother loves cheese too! Happy celebrations. Hope all goes well. Love.
xxx
Happy Birthday Anthony! Looks like yours was worth waiting for 😀
It was a great day!
Happy Birthday to Anthony! And Blessing and Happiness to you ALL, Thanks and love, nia
Oh thank you so much Nia xx
Can’t believe it … you have Jarlsberg cheese in Australia – the best things is the holes …. ,my favorite cheese from Norway. *smile – I love cheese too. Ming has good taste. *smile
Got it wrong .. Jarlsberg say that the taste is in the holes. *laughing.
You are hilarious!
I take that compliment *laughing.
Happy Birthday Anthony!!!!!!!!!!!! And what a cheesy gift! get it???? 🙂 Ha! Looks like a lot of good cheese! 😉
Too much cheese!
Is there such a thing?? Too much?? 😉
Happy Birthday to all! Mmmm, brie… 🙂
Yum!
Happy Birthday to Anthony. Hope Anthony, (you & Ming), have an enjoyable time with friends/family.
What a great gift. I’m sure you’ll put it where it’s meant to be and thoroughly enjoy it. I’m on a dairy-free, grain-free diet at the moment and being allergic to mould nowadays, means no brie & camembert for me anymore. Gosh, when I think how much I ate it 30 years ago.
Anyway, I hope you have a great time.
Vicki
x
Thanks so much Vicki! xxx
Have a wonderful ‘cheesy’ (ohhhh!) Day!!!! Diane
VERY cheesy!
Seriously Jules, you need to take a future vacation to France, the cheese lover in you would be in unadulterated, pure bliss. Each town with its own cheese, each region with its own specialty, you would be deeply satisfied and not to mention the wonderful bread to go with it. A future birthday present perhaps to yourself? Happy birthday to Anthony!
Good idea – ah France!
The air smells quite delicious over there. 😀
I love cheese too!
I knew we had a lot in common!
Happy Birthday, Ants. Saving it all up for one big celebration sounds like a great idea. And, Ming’s pressie = YUMMIE. Enjoy your day. You deserve it.
It was so much fun!
happy celebrations–
Thanks very much for this!
Yum! What a treat! Happy birthday to Anthony. May you have a wonderful celebration.
It wasn’t such a bad day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ANTHONY!
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
Thanks Francine!
Wishing a beautiful birthday full of cheese! (My favorite is a sharp cheddar)
I love every cheese!
happy birthday celebration day to the three of you, and what a nice way to enjoy it all together. i am a cheese lover too, and would fight for the blue.
You are not getting that blue!
Happy Birthday to all three of you. I hope that you had a great day.
How wonderful that you have these special days at about the same time of the year ….. and in summer 🙂
We are going to continue the joint birthday thing from now on!
I have never tried blue cheese but I do like my cheese and usually have a number of different types in the fridge
If you lived closer I would share the blue cheese with you!
My kind of present.
Wish I could share it with you – how am I going to eat it all? I have frozen some in the hope that it will be okay.
Lovely cheeses, Julie. I also love blue cheese. Hope you all enjoyed the birthday celebrations together. xx
It was great!
Julie, My mouth watered and watered when I saw the cheeses. Gosh so inviting. I am sorry I didn’t get this out earlier, I hope you had a joyful day with Ants. Please take care, Bill