Happy Birthday David63

[Stephen]

Have a good day David

[Onelife]

It’s days like today that I bet you wish you hadn’t been so cruel about my chocolates…btw, they taste so yummy.

But do have a fantastic Birthday Boss

[Portsmouth]

have a good day

[oldbluefox]

Many happy returns Smurfy.....and thank you from all of us for running the forum. Have a great day.

[Stephen]

Foxy’s after something

[Ray B]

Foxy’s after something

Makes a change, it's normally OL.

[Ray B]

Do you have a good day boy, and welcome to 78, along with Janice and myself.

[towny44]

Happy Birthday David, and thankyou for running our favourite forum.

[oldbluefox]

Foxy’s after something

Hope he remembers when we come to talking about the resident Republican.

[Jan Rosser]

What a vintage year 1947 was - happy birthday David - hope you’ve had a great day celebrating

[Ray B]

What a vintage year 1947 was - happy birthday David - hope you’ve had a great day celebrating

[Mervyn and Trish]

Happy birthday. 63 again eh?

[Happydays]

Belated Happy Birthday, hope it was a good one

[Onelife]

What a vintage year 1947 was - happy birthday David - hope you’ve had a great day celebrating

My mother used to tell me what a bad winter 1947 was…she would tell me that the snow was up to the window sills and that my father who was self-employed couldn’t do his normal work (many weeks) so got a job in the local bakery.

[david63]

Thanks everyone - sorry I have not done so before but I found a box of Keefie chocolates in the cupboard from several years ago and thought I would try one - BIG MISTAKE

[cruisin_duo]

Belated happy birthday.

[Onelife]

Thanks everyone - sorry I have not done so before but I found a box of Keefie chocolates in the cupboard from several years ago and thought I would try one - BIG MISTAKE

Well, at least that dispels those malicious rumours that I don’t send them…next time check the sell by date

[Ray B]

David, I know you have just got to 78, but silly mistakes like that are not good if you want to make 80.

[CaroleF]

I'm in the 78 Club too, but only for another few weeks! My mother told me how scary it was coping with a new born baby through December 1946 into January 1947. No central heating, as far as I know just a coal fire in the sitting room and a geyser giving hot water in the kitchen. No inside toilet. I do know and vaguely remember when I was about 5 a bathroom being installed with an extension on the kitchen. Those days were hard. We really to have it easy in so many ways.

Carole

[Onelife]

I'm in the 78 Club too, but only for another few weeks! My mother told me how scary it was coping with a new born baby through December 1946 into January 1947. No central heating, as far as I know just a coal fire in the sitting room and a geyser giving hot water in the kitchen. No inside toilet. I do know and vaguely remember when I was about 5 a bathroom being installed with an extension on the kitchen. Those days were hard. We really to have it easy in so many ways.

Carole

Hi Carole…just a little story about a mother’s love for her baby (me) I was born in 1953 at which time my parents had just been allocated a prefabricated council house, basically a tin can propped up on bricks. As I know now, they were very cold and particularly difficult to keep warm…it was probably this that after 2 months of moving in I caught pneumonia and spent the next three months in Warwick hospital (apparently it was touch and go on several occasions) anyhow, in all the time I was in hospital my mother didn’t miss one day visiting me, some of the time on the back of a motorcycle but mostly by taking two bus journeys there and back.
My mother was one of the nicest, kindest people you could wish to meet…how I miss her.