...the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. It's independence day in Guinea and it's the International Day of non-violence to commemorate the birthday of Mahatma Ghandi.
There may be 90 days remaining until the end of the year, but today I'm not at all fussed about that.
I am totally and utterly preoccupied with the fact that it's the Jaw-droppingly Gorgeously Wonderful (JGW – his initials, clever huh?) Mr Winderley's 32nd birthday and I LOVE birthdays... the perfect excuse or pretty packages, big bows and over-priced metallic helium-filled balloons. Oh, and how could I forget... cupcakes! Perfectly-formed, delicately-iced, bite-sized scrumptiousness.
I am so preoccupied with all the frills of turing a year older that I decided to give you a mini history lesson to avoid boring you to death with my 'twenty reasons why I love helium balloons' monologue... So here it goes:
On this day in 1452 King Richard III of England was born;
In 1945 ‘Bye bye Miss American Pie’ singer Don McLean made his debut on Earth;
In 1889 Nicholas Creede struck it rich (in Colorado) in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West;
In 1950 ‘Peanuts’ (yip, Charlie Brown and co) by Charles M Schulz was first published;
In 1959 "The Twilight Zone" debuted on American network CBS;
In 1968 a woman gave birth to six babies in what was hailed as the first recorded case of live sextuplets in Britain;
In 1974 experiments on monkeys in America revealed how smoking cannabis could cause brain damage; and
In1977 Mr Winderley was welcomed into the world as (my now in-laws) Percy and Phyllis’s first born
And there ends the history lesson – I’m off to eat a cupcake (or two)
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