A Date That Will Live in the Infirmary

[steepholm]

So, it's my birthday, and Robbie Burns's birthday, and also my grandfather's birthday. It's also, as I learn from heleninwales, St Dwynwen's day. Today, by tradition, is the day that St Paul was struck blind on the road to Damascus. Do we not all have honest, sonsie faces? God bless us, every one!

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Hippo bidet two ewes m'dear :o)

If 'sonsie' compares our faces to that of a haggis, I'm not sure how much of a compliment it is!

If you've read my latest you'll have noted that hubby and I (he's a Scot) are not celebrating Burns' Night as we normally do because he's in Brussels at a conference.

First time in 17 years we've missed.

Harumph :o/

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I'd rather a haggis than Brussels sprouts...

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

We've had that joke via _keristor_ over on mine already :op

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! It's also the birthday of two of my childhood neighbours, one much older than me (and called Robbie - I wonder if that was after Burns?) and one much younger (and not called Robbie). I remember seeing a pink bow hanging up in her family's window that morning when I went to collect her sister, who I was walking to our primary school while her mother was out of action.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I wonder what the pink bow portends?

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

It seemed rather faded. She was their third daughter, though at that point they seemed to give up, presumably because there wasn't a Bennet-style entail on the house.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday and may the new year be a good one for you! Am just now reading McCall Smith who keeps quoting Burns. Green grow the rashes, or whatever it is one says up there;)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I'm far from Scotland, but I do like Burns for a' that.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I hope it was a wonderful one!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

It was, thanks!

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! It is also my late partner's birthday as well as Burns Night, so a memorable day all round.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of us about.

[sovay]

Hapy birthday! I shall drink a toast in your honor at Burns Night.

Also, don't go blind.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I had an eye test today, as a prophylactic.

[gillo]

Many happy returns!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[owlfish]

Happy birthday!

(Yours will now be one of the few non-family birthdays I am able to remember, as it's my half-birthday, in addition to everything else.)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

And exactly a month after Christmas - just far enough away that people can't get away with buying only one present!

[sheenaghpugh]

This year, it also happened to be Up Helly Aa night in Lerwick - lots of gents dressed as Vikings parading with flaming torches with which they then burn a galley. Most spectacular.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice!

[aryky.livejournal.com]

Happy. . . birthdays? I mean, yours especially, of course ;-)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I bought Among Others with some of my birthday money!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Belated happy birthday for yesterday.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much - it was a fun day.

[joyeuce]

Many happy returns of yesterday!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

I have just realised your birthday is the day before mine! Excellent timing, and happy birthday, a little late!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

And you, only slightly less late!