Happy birthday Rubyred

@jen_jen wrote:

Bliddy hell, I haven’t been here since yesterday afternoon, then signed in this evening and I saw that I’d started a thread in my absence!
Then I checked the date of the opening post and phew! I’m not that senile after all

sorry about that Jen, didn’t think it would cause so much confusion, and the basic sentiment remains the same.
It seems so wasteful making a new thread when there’s a perfectly good one in existence, just waiting to be honoured again, and I missed it first time round.

Anyway, your self-evident lack of senility is an inspiration to all. But try not to say ‘bliddy’ again – some of us were young children once.
Thank you.

(+ happy birthday geoff)

Of course not, but I do have some photo albums of a sweet child stuck up the chimney with a Mary Poppins doll. Much later I put 2 + 2 together, and realised that Di/ck van Dyke was probably my great grandfather.

Which explains the accent.