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Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:35 pm

I got my very first birthday cake this year! It meant the world to me as I had waited 45 years to get one!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:57 pm

congratulations

I hope it was good

I think i've only had two (and one of those I made myself - the star)

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:10 pm

The people with me made it fantastic.

I didn't dare have one at CH, the idea of walking into the Mid B common room with a cake just doesn't bear thinking about!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:11 pm

my star one was at CH

my clock one was when I was little (yes Mr P, very good, I'm not very tall, lets move on...)

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:14 pm

So how vertically challenged are you Ruth?

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:17 pm

can I have a mysterious moment and avoid answering this one???

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:22 pm

Hmm Okay see as it is you sis

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:24 pm

Ruthie-Baby wrote:my star one was at CH

my clock one was when I was little (yes Mr P, very good, I'm not very tall, lets move on...)

I like the way you steal my jokes...

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:32 pm

that's not stealing that's pre-empting

there's a subtle difference, don't you know

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:06 pm

You need to be quicker than that Mr P

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:34 pm

and you need to admit you are now in disguise!

sean you silly chump your cover is blown!

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:34 pm

Scone Lover wrote:The people with me made it fantastic.

I didn't dare have one at CH, the idea of walking into the Mid B common room with a cake just doesn't bear thinking about!

AFAIR it might not have been allowed but in any case I also wouldn't have dared receive one which meant no birthdays from the age of 8. It was only when I was 19 that I discovered that my true birthday was on a different date to what I had beleived; to cut costs my mother used to have joint birthday party for a neighbour's child (June 16) and me June 17, always on the 16th.

cj · Post by cj » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:27 pm

It wasn't until my Granny died that we found out her real birthday. She wasn't quite sure herself when it was - being one of 15 children I guess that's a common phenomenon - and we'd celebrated it on the wrong day for years. Conversely, my husband's first father-in-law was born on 29th February, so has his birthday every 4 years. He's now 14 and a half!!

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:44 am

I turned up at CH, a shy only child who was frighteningly innocent to the ways of the world. My mum had covered me in cotton wool since my father died (Iwas 6 months old) and so I thought that everything that happened to me was unique.
Imagine my shock when I found that there were other people who shared my birthday and that one of them was my nurse-maid!
Add to that the fact that at CH everyone gets to punch you the same number of times that is your house number on your birthday. How charming is that! Thank the Gods of fortune that I was Maine B 7.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:50 am

Mr Kemp used to have 'ahem' 'slurp-ups' in his study where you and some friends were invited to eat toast, drink coke and watch Mr Bean on your birthday...