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Claire decides to let rip and have fun to stave off the birthday blues.

It was my birthday recently and in the run-up to it I got a bitdepressed at hitting my "mid forties" - yuk! What a "grey age" (in moreways than one judging by the hair dye in my bathroom) for a perpetualteenager like me to reach.

I decided that something needed to be done to stave off the middle-agedoldrums and vowed to start my 43rd year as I meant to go on - lettingrip my inner child.

The good thing about having a birthday in December is that all theChristmas lights are on. A brightly lit carousel is installed in themiddle of the city, adding to the sense of magic. I have been desperatefor a ride on it for years but have never got the nerve up to do it. Sowhy not on my birthday?

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