The Daily Splash

Flora enjoyed her first birthday this week on 25th August, with an exclusive birthday dinner at Santanas restaurant in Jesmond. This was followed by a cake eating and present opening ceremony, which sadly had to mostly be postponed since it was past her bedtime by then. Nevertheless she enjoyed it very much and would like to thank everyone for the lovely presents and cards.

The happy couple were nearly not so happy when it emerged that the wedding cake had been unthinkingly cut up by Milburns staff before it had been officially cut by the couple. As Simon later pointed out “the cutting of the cake is a symbolic act analogous to the breaching of the bride’s virginity—much as I enjoyed Mark the chef’s brown ale jus, I think it should have been my knife plunging into the soft fruity interior of the cake and not his.”

They are pictured right, safely directing their fury at the cake, and not at the culpable Milburns staff.