We’ve just finished an excellent birthday supper crafted by Catherine and Oliver, and so I officially turn 52 years old.

We started with appetizers (here and here), moved on to shrimp and fish tacos, and finished with a sugarless chocolate mousse with fresh berries. All of this was accompanied by a Spotify playlist of the songs of my life prepared by Oliver that ran from Stephen Fearing to Stan Rogers.

Oliver wrote on his blog “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” How right he is.