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Whether you're planning a birthday or a hen do, you'll find plenty of ideas for your celebration on our Party forum.

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What did you do for your 40th? Or what are you doing if it's this year?

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WideWebWitch · 23/07/2006 10:49

I'm a bit stuffed because my 40th is half term week so everywhere in the world is booked (well, nice sc cottages seem to be) so I may have to do something different. I'm wondering about a combination of 2 nights in a hotel with dh and then a family party at our house too but it's all a bit vague atm.

So what did you do? Or what are you doing?

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WideWebWitch · 23/07/2006 11:13

ha ha at dd2 Sobernow! I've just done dh's 30th, 2 nights in a hotel, very nice.

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alex8 · 23/07/2006 11:21

got incredibly depressed despite having lots of meals out/flowers/facials/night at hotel.

doglover · 25/07/2006 16:56

We live in the sticks so decided to have a weekend in London; I wanted a shared experience for all 4 of us not just a boozy party that I'd totally embarrass myself at!!!! We went by train and started on the London Eye. From there we walked to Covent Garden for lunch. Next, it was off to see The Lion King- WOW! After a little wander, we checked into our hotel and crashed out! In the morning we visited the Science and Natural History museums and arrived home, exhausted, on Sunday evening! It was a bri8lliant weekend that we still talk about now that I'm 41!

motherinferior · 25/07/2006 17:05

I gestated, mainly.

Enid · 25/07/2006 17:10

my 40th is in September

we were going away for a few days with friends to Tarifa in Spain, then I got pg

then we were going to spend a couple of nights away in a swanky hotel but I will still be breastfeeding

so we are going to Babington House for a treatment and dinner then home

fairyjay · 25/07/2006 17:10

Was really fed up - and then dh arranged for us to go to Mauritius. Bless him - I sometimes forget that he can be a real sweetie

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:13

It is dh's on 1 Aug and mine on 20 Oct so our schedule is

This Saturday a family and v few friends lunch party at home, followed by some cricket/rounders etc in the park if anyone can be arsed. About 14 of us.

On his bday I am taking him to Le Manoir for the night

In September we are having a big joint party for all our friends at home. Beach party, hired a rum shack and getting blow up palm trees and making a beach etc. Lots of rum punch, reggae and ice lollies. Getting it catered and a cocktail barman!

On my bday we are going to Gordon Ramsay with about 8 friends and will prob have a lunch with family too.

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:15

(I also have dd's 4th bday party on 4 Sept AARRGGHH, feel like I have a second job as events organiser atm)

aragon · 25/07/2006 17:16

We did bugger all as we had no money. My family all clubbed together though and bought me an iPod - fabulous little gadget. DH is planning all sorts for his 40th and I feel a bit peeved about that as we did nothing for mine - so am insisting he has an 81st to include my 41st birthday.

Mercy · 25/07/2006 17:19

lol Motherinferior, me too!

I was 5 months pregnant and we went to Barcelona for a long weekend.

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:23

Bet we could find you a nice cottage WWW

Tell us the dates!

cremolafoam · 25/07/2006 17:24

Hi it is my 40th on 10/8 and will be whitewater rafting down a river in france with dd and dh on our family hoilday!!
Everyone i speak to thinks i have lost my mind or having a mid life crisis

Dh asked me what i would like as a present and i found this which i hope he has bloody organised.

BonyM · 25/07/2006 17:26

It's my 40th next month and we're having a party in the garden on the Sunday before (lunchtime/afternoon).

Thought about an evening do but all our friends have children and it would mean everyone getting babysitters so thought a garden party would be good (just praying it doesn't rain!)

We're going to get it catered so there's minimal work involved.

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:26

lost your mind? Why?

cremolafoam · 25/07/2006 17:28

don't know cd- prbbly because i have been ill for a number of years and they think i might break in half. i just want to liive!!!!!!! and do stuff i've never done before- also dd is older and can join in now

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:29

Good for you!
LOVE the look of the holiday with the baby fiat!

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:30

(I am taking dh dog sledding for his I must be insane, I know I will end up being dragged along for miles covered in dog poo, freezing cold and sobbing)

spidermama · 25/07/2006 17:32

Due to lack of funds and lack of babysitters our plans for Paris fell through. So did our plans for Amsterdam. Then our plans to see a show and stay in a hotel in London.

So, after my shift (0530 - 0900) we took all four kids to London to go on the Eye. We queued in the heat, baby thrashing in my arms furiously while men searched our bags and sent us back because the champagne dh had planned was not allowed.

It took all my parenting stregth and a good deal of digging deep, fighting back tears in that queue as my 4 year old moaned and tried to escape, my dh fought his way back through the heaving crowd to stash the champers and the pushchair (which was also not allowed) and my 6 and 7 year olds asked questions non stop which in reality deserved my attentive answers but actually got none.

If you think that was a low point, you'd be wrong. The real low point came when, at dinner in a posh restaurant we'd booked when I noticed a pool of diarrh forming underneath the high chair of ds4.

That was my 40th birthday.

My advice - Don't, whatever you do, have any expectations.

Happy birthday WWW.

cremolafoam · 25/07/2006 17:33

ther are loads of great breaks on that website which are great for tacking onto cheapy flights- maybe something for you www.
cd -bloody hell dog sledding how did you find that?

spidermama · 25/07/2006 17:33

That should be diarrhoea by the way. Or however you spell it.

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:34

spidermama

I found it on the web. It's in finnish lapland!

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cremolafoam · 25/07/2006 17:37

spidermama- how crap for you ( pardon the pun)
cd -finnish lapland sounds amazing very romantic and snowy!

CountessDracula · 25/07/2006 17:39

It does but I bet it is just bloody freezing and you probably have to eat whale blubber and horrid fishy things

Still he has always wanted to do it, I guessed he might be too over the hill for his 50th so that's his pressie

cremolafoam · 25/07/2006 17:42

LOL blubber.
we went to Estonia for dh's 40th and ate a lot of reindeer.
maybe it'll be Rudolf in Finland too. Anyway the cold is a good excuse to chuck loads of Absolut down your neck

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