16th Birthday - For Her - Born in 2010

In 2010, Katy Perry released Teenage Dream. Nobody mentioned the laundry or the dramatic silences. Tangled made its US cinema debut: Rapunzel had seventy feet of hair and still managed to leave the house. You're 'nearly ready' with considerably less. Lady Gaga wore a dress made of meat to the MTV awards. Even that probably required fewer outfit changes than your last trip out. Then you arrived, immediately giving everybody something else to organise. Now you're sixteen, armed with big opinions and a look that can stop a conversation at twenty paces. But you've also got warmth, wit and more courage than you realise. Happy birthday to a girl with a brilliant future. You're loved exactly as you are. Yes, even in the first outfit. It was absolutely fine. Roast with love x