How on earth did that happen? (It's OK, I know where babies come from: apparently you play a game of Scrabble with your clothes off and then stand on your head.)
Things I Know
Quite a lot: some useful; some not. If you left me alone in a jungle on a desert island I would probably be OK, as long as I had loo roll and a tube of Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream.
Things I Don't Know
Everything else.
Things I May Learn
Who can tell?
Things I Would Like To Do Before I Die
A handstand
A cartwheel
Go up in an air balloon
Be a passenger in a 2-person aeroplane made before 1940 (closer than it sounds: someone offered me this very thing on Sunday)
Touch a monkey, but not a big one
Shack up with a Gentleman Caller
Learn how to fillet a fish
Go to Rome again
Wear Vivienne Westwood
Run for a long time without passing out
Not live in London
Go to Iceland. (Not the shop. I've been. It's rubbish.)
Write a book (barf)
Things I Have No Interest In Doing, Ever
Swim with dolphins
Touch a baboon
Be famous
Live in Germany
Shell a prawn or other shellfish, esp langoustines which are like enormous prawns and have staring eyes on stalks
Deep sea diving
Conquer my fear of cockroaches.
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I rode in an air balloon.
Fantastic.
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you!!!
You've a face like a monkey and you smell like one too!!!
Well you would wouldn't you.
Oh I would love to go to Iceland too, there's an Icelandic photogrpher on Flicker and she's fab.
Have a mellow day.
May your Birthday be a happy one, scented by Nutmeg and Ginger and tasting of cake
I've touched actual monkeys several times, although they were dead so that probably doesn't count.
You shouldn't slag off Swimming with Dolphins, it is exquisite - although when I did it, the rough swells quickly turned the activity into Vomiting with Dolphins.
Birthday birthday birthday birthday dear happy happy happy happy monkey to to to you you you.
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A very Happy Birthday to you! I hope that the year ahead brings you all that you hope for (especially the chance to touch a monkey)
I just had an hour long flight in a 1942 Harvard with lots of aerobatics and I have to say that it's now become the biggest rush of my life to date. I was high on the adrenaline for days afterwards.
Have a wonderful birthday week.
Chin Chin!
I'm surprised that Dave (of all people) used the wrong packaging - after his front line experience.
If he'd simply ordered from Viking, his words would have been held firmly in place by the shrinkwrap
Many happy returns of the day, NWM. And I highly recommend telling everyone that you want to touch a monkey, but not a large one. Please tape yourself doing it, then post it.
Shelling prawns is highly ovverrated.
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a good one.
I can teach you how to do a cartwheel. I taught my daughters. However, it's something best done whilst sober, I discoveed.
J
Many Happy Returns, NWM!
love
Wendy
Happy birthday!
(I am with you on the surviving the jungle if armed with eight hour cream. It is stuff of mysterious and great power.)
Happy Birthday!
Gosh, I haven't cartwheeled for years or handstood for decades. Not too late to try again, but maybe too late to succeed. Not for you though, you are still Young.
Happy Birthday. How big a monkey is too big?
Dear Everyone,
Thank you. Very much. I am blushing and very touched, although it is not quite the thing to admit it.
For the record: any monkey that you can't easily hold in your hand is too big.
And Eight Hour Cream cures eczema. Fact.
Kisses.
Philip and Dave - Dave wins with the words being rattled about gag, but you should both be ashamed.
J-boy - I am afraid of water. Please see if you can see a theme running through the 'things I don't want to do' - I can't even watch telly programmes about deep sea stuff without going rigid, especially the bit where the camera dips below the surface. Hell is an enormous waterfall that I am on 3 feet away from, and about to fall in to. That's how bad.
NWM - Happy birthday...I hope it was so good that you are unable to remember much of it in the morning.
As for wearing Vivienne Westwood...I'm sorry but I don't think an ageing designer would be suitable headwear for a lady of your years.
Oh sorry I've just realised that you meant VW clothes NOT VW herself. I'll get my coat...
I'm afraid of water too. Can't even stand in a shower. When I have to have a shower I do a bit at a time - left leg, right leg, arm and so on.
The anonymous Morning Loves It here - OU student who can't sleep.
Write that book!
Feh. I'm a day late but Happy Birthday!!
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