One of my best memories of recent years is attending the second birthday arty of a young lad over in Houston, Texas. No, I didn’t suddenly just rush over there on a madcap adventure, the two year old is a relative and I saw at first hand the difference in party etiquette and how to being the hostess with the mostest is an absolutely critical issue for the Moms around those parts! The need to have exactly the right colour wrapping paper to match the intended birthday outfit; then the table cloths and accessories have to be exactly the right theme – depending on the current fave film or game. The matter of balloons was also of frightening intensity to my mind. I was set the task of inflating 50 rather gorgeous purple, orange and dazzling colours to be hung in groups of 5. Fortunately they came with a very nifty inflating device. Ah kids’ parties, a real bundle of fun!
