Happy birthday, Miss SB!! Hope you are having a great day across the pond!!!

Happy Birthday Birchie!
What did you do to enjoy your day?

Happy birthday Silver!

Happy Birthday, Silver! Hope you're having a wonderful day!

Hope you had a great birthday!

Dagmar

Happy Birthday, Silverbirch!

Happy Birthday, Silverbirch. Enjoy your special day!

Thank you, friends! I've only just seen this thread, nudged by midwife.

One of yesterday's highpoints was a visit to the gymn, alone, where I saw no-one I knew and spoke to no-one. Heaven. Time on my own is part of what keeps me healthy and I've had little of it for weeks. So that was lovely.

The other highpoint was getting my Dad's desk out of the car and into our office. It was good to look at it and think of him. (He died a few years ago.) Some of you may have read how my 84 yo uncle and I (55 at that time) wrangled it out of my Mum's house through narrow doors and along. passageways. It is solid and does not come apart. We did brilliantly and are actually operating pretty well as a partnership. We split some particularly truculent perennials in the spring using two forks, back-to-back, and brute force. It blows all those stereotypes about old people and women out of the water.

Thanks again, everyone. You're all so good to know.

Birchie, this is very late, past your bed-time, no doubt, but I wanted to leave my good wishes after seeing your name on the thread.

I hope you had many moments where you felt loved and celebrated and appreciated for all that you are -- which is considerable.

And I do hope you continue to blow any stereotypes about people out of the water if they inconvenience you.

Thank you, Kelly, and thank you, saef. I am in bed and need to be asleep soon. Beauty sleep, you know. An hour before midnight is worth two afterwards.

Happy Birthday, silverbirch - and may you have many more.

Good morning, Bill, and thank you for your good wishes. It's taking a few days to get into the groove of this new year but I think it'll be all right.