Coming Up 40? Celebrate Your Birthday As You Never Have Before!

If you are going to be turning 40 in the next couple of months, you need to start planning - or making sure someone else is planning - the festivities. Your fortieth birthday is an occasion to be celebrated. You don't have to have a party, if you don't want to, but you do have to do something special. Over the past few years, what seems like hundreds of my friends and relations have hit 40, so, if you're not sure what you'd like to do, here are a few suggestions.

For his 40th, my friend Tim hired a riverboat to cruise along the Thames, with about 100 of us on it. There was an excellent buffet and live music to dance to afterwards. The atmosphere was very special - and it felt so decadent, drinking champagne as we sailed past the Houses of Parliament! It can't have been cheap but it was a wonderful experience.

My sister Laura's birthday is in the summer and, for her 40th, we (that is, about twenty of us family and about another twenty friends) went to the beach. It was sunny and warm but not too hot and we had a lovely day swimming, chatting, lounging, collecting shells, playing cricket on the sand, eating, drinking and being merry.

My cousin's wife was born on 31st October, which made choosing a theme for her 40th birthday quite easy. She decorated her house with bats, spiders, ghosts, skeletons and pumpkins, and we all wore Hallowe'en costumes and Gothic gear. Everywhere was dimly lit and we played a 'spooky' game of hide and seek (actually, we couldn't stop laughing as we all kept tripping over). Later, we bobbed apples and ate 'body parts', which my cousin and his wife had made from various disturbing-to-feel foods.

Jessica, my new friend from the gym, had a make-over party. An image consultant and a make-up artist came and transformed us, gave us loads of advice and made us feel like film stars. A photographer was also there, to record the fun we had and to take glamorous shots of us all dolled up.

My brother's friend Scott fancies himself as James Bond in Monte Carlo and for his 40th birthday, they put on a casino night. We all dressed in our most sophisticated clothes and drank lots of martini (shaken, not stirred, of course!). There was blackjack, roulette and poker - all gambled with play money, on which the company who hired the tables had printed Scott's photo. A nice memento of a cool evening.

A magician is an excellent addition to any party. At my friend Jason's 40th birthday party, the magician took my ring and made it vanish. A second later, without him having moved at all, it appeared tied on to his shoelace!

In a few weeks it will be my own 40th birthday and I've decided to spend it in New York, with my husband. Although I've never been to America at all, I have a feeling that the Big Apple is an ideal place to wake up 40. We'll do loads of shopping, take in a show on Broadway and visit all the city's hotspots - and cool spots. All this will give me a burst of energy to carry me into my fifth decade.

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