A Break & Happy Birthday

I have had a bit of a 'forced' break.  Due to a bit of stupidity on my behalf (opening up a virus email), I was without a computer for half of the week, then on discovering that my computer had a 'non-related' virus and that the hard drive was starting to fail....I went and bought a new laptop.  My old one was a remarkable 5 years old so it really was about time.
So, I am typing this from my swanky new red laptop (it's very pretty) and apologising for being missing in action for the week.  It took me a while to transfer data over and I just didn't want to cause myself extra stress by trying to get my normal blog posts done.  I managed my usual outfit post on Monday (due to having one sitting waiting in the wings) and also my Weekly Vlog on  Wednesday...but Tips Tuesday with its photography advice, Thursday's outfit post and yesterday's 'Mum & Style' post had to have a break.  Next week, hopefully, all should be rolling out as per normal.
As well as getting a new computer I did, in fact, have a birthday (as you can probably figure out from the photo above), so it wasn't a completely bad week...although considering the age I have turned things could be seriously heading down hill!
Hope all of you have been well in my absence..looking forward to getting up to speed again next week...although have enjoyed my little 'break'!