This is half-pie.

Rosa’s sixth birthday today. She went off to school with a princess badge emblazoned with a giant “6”, so no-one could mistake the day, and a brand new pair of pink velvet trousers run up the previous evening by Rebecca.

And tonight, we went out for dinner. Yesterday I had asked her where, if she had the choice, would she like to go for a birthday dinner. She thought for a bit, and announced: “I’d like to have my Japanese dinner!”.

Turns out what she actually means is teriyaki squid at Chow in Woodward Street – and that’s what we did. The girls ate a plate of squid each, and tipped the sauce into their noodles and ate those too. What little remained they’ve brought home for the fridge. Lunch tomorrow will be exciting.

Rebecca and I had a bowl of curry each, some satay sticks and perhaps unnecessarily, some fishcakes too. Luckily, the staff at Chow, on learning that it was Rosa’s birthday, took hers off the bill. We had great service and lots of fun from the staff there.

We had to walk slowly back to the car, though Rosa, whose infectious happiness had made one of the staff jokingly call her “drunk on squid”, ran ahead and back all the way, covering twice our distance.

And needless to say, Bella wants to go there for her birthday, too.