Sunday, 7 December 2008

Birthday Boy(s)

It's my birthday today - me and old Tom Waits: same day, same year, somewhat divergent destinies... As is now traditional, I am spending the day slogging away at NigeCorp - with too few of my fellow toilers to organise an oxroast - but I don't complain. It's a beautiful crisp morning - blue skies and sparkling frost; I'll be taking a brisk walk at lunchtime - and I'll be celebrating this evening en famille. Meanwhile the gifts, cards and greetings roll in - though yet again that bastard Tom's forgotten. Typical...
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11 comments:

  1. Uncle Dick Madeley7 December 2008 at 12:28

    Best wishes for the day, Nige. And what about luck, sharing a birthday with the great Tom. I share mine with Margaret Thatcher.

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  2. Nige7 December 2008 at 13:30

    O dear. I think I share her Chinese horoscope year...

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  3. Mark7 December 2008 at 13:33

    Many Happy Returns! It is a beautiful day. May your oxen flourish and increase.

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  4. malty7 December 2008 at 13:54

    Have a good one Nige, lang may your lum reek.

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  5. Anonymous7 December 2008 at 15:39

    Happy birthday, Nigel. Hope you've enjoyed a lovely walk and that the oxen are roasted to a turn for your birthday feast!

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  6. Patrick Kurp7 December 2008 at 15:43

    Enjoy your day, Nige. I share a birthday with Trotsky and Hillary Clinton. My favorite Waits lyric, from “Time,” seems appropriate:
    “And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget/
    That history puts a saint in every dream.”

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  7. Anonymous7 December 2008 at 19:00

    Happy birthday!

    i don't think i share mine with anyone, i don't just mean anyone famous, i mean a single human being anywhere.

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  8. Anonymous8 December 2008 at 01:22

    Here's hoping you personally not provide yet another reason for it to be remembered as "a date which will live in infamy." Wishing you many more happies and profitable returns of the odd cravat thrust upon you by well-intentioned gift-givers.

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  9. Frank Wilson8 December 2008 at 02:52

    Well, happy birthday, Nige. I hope it's a wonderful day - and a wonderful year.

    (I share mine with e.e. cummings, Katherine Mansfield and Dwight Eisenhower, surely an incongruous trio.)

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  10. Brit8 December 2008 at 11:24

    Happy Birthday. (I've got Ben Elton and Steve McClaren - top that!)

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  11. Nige8 December 2008 at 11:30

    Well thanks everybody - and it was a good day in the end. Spared for another year - hallelujah!

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