Birthdays and other anniversaries and significant dates

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  • Rick Wakeman is 72 today, oh Yes!
  • Today is the 3rd wedding anniversary of the Duke & Duchess of Sussex.
  • Today is that generally accepted as the date of the death of the Venerable Bede.
  • Happy Birthday to ME. June 1
  • Happy, happy birthday, @Pearl B4 Swine!
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Happy Birthday!
  • Happy Birthday :cookie: (nearest thing to a cake is a cookie) - have a great day @Pearl B4 Swine
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Many happy returns, PB4S! 🍸🍰
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Happy birthday, PB4S!

    And on a more wistful note, today is my late father's birthday. He would have been 97. :heart:
  • Lyda wrote: »
    Happy birthday, PB4S!

    And on a more wistful note, today is my late father's birthday. He would have been 97. :heart:

    I'm catching up, Lyda - next year, if I make it, will be a big one. Big for me, anyway. Say: I think the snowflake making is changed some. Lots of SOF'ers had a great time with that. Yours were always wonderful. Thank you for the hap.bir.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Happy belated birthday, Pearlie of the amazing snowflakes!
  • Master S will be 40 tomorrow!

    40 - how on earth can that be?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Happy birthday Master S!

    When David turned 40, his mum said being a granny wasn't nearly as old-making as having a son who was 40! :mrgreen:
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Happy birthdays to @Pearl B4 Swine and to Master S!
  • bassobasso Shipmate
    Happy birthday to me.
    It was a triple birthday on Ye Olde Shippe -- happy birthday also to Pants and Jenny Ann. Not sure if they're both here or not.
  • Happy Birthday to @basso, @Pants and @JennyAnn - who did all register and have been seen occasionally (even in real Zoom).
  • PantsPants Shipmate
    Indeed they are seen!! Happy birthday to my birthday triplets @basso and @JennyAnn !!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Many happy returns to all of you! :)
  • On this day in 1876 Lieutenant-Colonel George Custer and a large detachment of troops of the US 7th Cavalry were surrounded and killed by a combined force of Lakita and Cheyenne Native Americans near the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Reservation.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    edited July 2021
    Today is the anniversary of the introduction of the 999 emergency 'phone number in the UK, the first such service in the world.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It's also Canada Day - wishing a good one to all our Canadian Shippies!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Today would have been our 33rd wedding anniversary. :heartbreak:
  • {{{Piglet}}}
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    🕯
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    (((Piglet)))
  • @Piglet I hope it wasn't too painful.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It was OK actually - I met up with an old friend for lunch, and had a very nice dinner with my sister in the evening.

    I also managed to go past the Cathedral without suffering spontaneous eye leakage - although I didn't have the nerve to go in.
  • Today is St Swithun's Day 🌨🌧
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It is indeed, and the sun's been splitting the trees in Embra all day. :smiley:
  • Happy Birthday Prince George, 8 today 🎂
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Which reminds me - it's also eight years today since my father-in-law died.

    RIP Len.
  • Harry Potter is 32 today! Happy Birthday Daniel Radcliffe 🎂
  • Today is the 20th anniversary of my joining the Ship of Fools. Golly!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Gosh - congratulations Mousethief! :)
  • Happy Shipiversary, @mousethief!

  • Mick Jagger is 78 today, Helen Mirren is 76. The difference between the lizard lookalike Stones frontman and the thespian dame would seem obvious - moisturiser 😂
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Happy Shipiversary, mousethief!
    Mousethief coolers all round!
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    edited July 2021
    Also, does Helen Mirren smoke? Because Jagger certainly did, even if he doesn't now, and that dries and wrinkles skin.

    Happy Shipiversary @mousethief
  • edited July 2021
    1 year ago today a kind nurse sent me home for 3 hours to sleep while my daughter and her partner sat with my papa - Covid rules relaxed if palliative. I returned, set up a zoom call to 3 continents and he died within 10 minutes. 11 years to the day of my mother who died ignominiously while I travelled hours. His death created some symmetry and positivity only because we see the poetry of it.

    It was difficult retrieving the ashes from the funeral home - they keep them for up to year. We're discussing now that it will be 2 years before we can be together.

    The 2 deaths, my mind compresses the 11 years separating them as of they're simultaneous.

    But it's also 2 days before one of my children was randomly attacked and nearly murdered a decade ago (yes, it was that, before). I can't cry too much about the deaths or I shall turn also to anger too and I can't afford my own murderous rage.

    Perhaps it's too much sharing?. Though there's quite a lot more than this too. I think we're not accorded happiness and blessings and that God just watches: hands off. Or maybe there are chosen people who get that sort of divine attention. I'm accorded reality, understanding and a few kind people. Including here. That's it.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited July 2021
    My sympathies and prayers for you in your grief, NOprophet-N0profit. I lost my parents 10 years apart, both before I was 40. I felt like an orphan.
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Prayers from me as well, @NOprophet_NØprofit. Peace be with you 🕯
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    {{{NP}}}
  • Prayers from me too, NP.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    I am thinking of you @NOprophet_NØprofit . Every time I read or think of your experiences I never know what to say. Apart from "Sh*t. That's incomprehensibly horrendous."
  • Mick Jagger is 78 today, Helen Mirren is 76. The difference between the lizard lookalike Stones frontman and the thespian dame would seem obvious - moisturiser 😂
    Plus no smoking, one hopes
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Sometime in August (today perhaps?) I am celebrating my 20th year on this magnificent Ship of Fools!
    Where did the time go?
  • Glad you’re here we are!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I see what you did there, Nick! :mrgreen:

    Happy Shipiversary, JJ!
  • Today would have been my parents’ diamond anniversary. In fact they only had 17 years together as my father died young, but I hope they are celebrating in heaven.
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