Today is my daughter Ellen’s 17th birthday so in honour of that here are a few pictures. We have had a quiet weekend at her request – we went to Nottingham yesterday to visit the Robin Hood exhibition then out for a meal at which this pic of her and Jake was taken.

Today we went for a girlie afternoon trip to the cinema to see ’27 Dresses’ which was very good. Here she is with her birthday cake and her favourite bear with its new outfit which was a birthday present from her friend Charlotte.

Ans I know she will probably hate me for this but I couldn’t resist showing you one of her looking cute at 1 day old to go with the rest of these lovely pics – so here she is!

How time flies! Happy birthday darling from all of us.