I have awesome friends.

I have awesome friends. Really, really awesome friends.

Yesterday was WWKIP day in Sydney. For a while, Ailsa, Kylie, Shelley (All the way from New Zealand!) and I had planned a night out the night before, staying in a flash hotel in the city, then brunch before the big event.

I also had a significant birthday a couple of weeks ago. 39 and 12 months, I've taken to telling people. Lots of people asked me how I was going to celebrate, but I'd planned nothing. There was a variety of reasons. This year has been kind of crazy, and I'm still not completely settled in to our new routines. I also wasn't really enamoured of the idea of celebrating that particular birthday. I was kind of keen on the idea of staying at 39 forever. But as we are all too sadly aware, it doesn't work that way.

So the day passed kind of quietly, (but lovely!) with lots of well wishes from all of my lovely friends, a few gifts, but no celebration. And I was more than fine with that.

Little did I know that Ailsa had other plans. Totally, completely unbeknownst to me, she'd contacted some of the knitters attending WWKIP day, and invited them along to brunch. Yum Cha at Sky Phoenix. For 14 of my lovely, awesome, fantastic friends.

And much as I wasn't really enamoured of the idea of celebrating this birthday, I'm glad Ailsa organised it. It was wonderful, and I love you all for attending and making it so special.

Here is a video that Kris shot on her iPhone, by putting it on the Lazy Susan, and sending it around the table.

Awesome friends. The best.

And then I got to meet up with even more of them at WWKIP day! Sadly, I neglected to get my camera out, except to take one picture of DrK, after some of us had decamped to the balcony.

It was a lovely afternoon, but dry. No alcohol allowed at this year's venue. So after it was over at 4pm, some of us stopped at the bar outside Customs House Library to slake our thirst. Here, I finally remembered to pull out the shiny new camera I gave myself for my birthday!

Somehow, all the pictures I took missed Jussi, who'd also come all the way from New Zealand. I love her. Really, I've missed her since she went back and it was so good to see her again. So here's a pic of Ailsa, Jussi and myself that I took on the phone.

Thank you to everyone who came to my breakfast, and to those who couldn't make it, I don't love you any less - I have made some phenomenal friends through the knitting community, and I'm grateful for every one of you!