Salutations Tieff.

You're the only one brave/foolish/uncaring enough to give an age more than mine!

Belated best wishes for 9 August,

and to Zuki-pah and Fifth Bear for 22nd August

and forward wishes for OC Not and Disturbinglyavidffordeworshipper for 6 September

as I shall be removed from the keyboard while those who practice medicine (which bothers me, don't they ever admit to the real thing?) are modifying my plumbing.

I shall think of you all and cake and more cake and leftovers. Also chocolate and mints from some other fforum.

Belated thanks for the birthday wishes guys. I've been away for a long time. Missed you all (hello to the people who've signed on in my absence). Back now following a long absence from my computer and a recent Fforde reading re-invigoration after my librarian Mum brought me a shiny new copy of TN5.

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'Who looks after the animals?'

Is anyone else nervous about the Mayan calender?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Should we be? Is it going to break into our houses and steal all our Final Demand notices, so that we forget the electricity bill and the power is cut off, meaning we have to resort to going to the public library and cannibalism???

The mayan calendar stops at Dec 21st, 2012. If your computer, videorecorder, soul, spiritually transcendant reality or ISP is based on this calender, there'll be problems. There may be a world ending. But that's nothing new.

We got through the Millie Nininium (The girl who b**g**r*D up the Common Era and RC & Anglican Christian calendar (-1)) so we can get through the Mayan one. Just remember to do all your maths to base 10.1 (Spoiler for a new book by an author quite liked here)

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Daffy and OC Not. If you hadn't noticed, its both your birthdays!

Don't fight over the presents and help yourselves to birthday pie.

Happy birthday Daff! I ain't sharing my presents though.

Happy birthday! Have a small plastic doodad each.

This is early. Happy Birthday Skids! We'll be in Brussells so I'm getting in early as I can't post on the day (Sept 12th). I though we'd go out for a beer. Or is that bier?

Thank you my dear. I'll have both.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Happy Birthday Rob! Today it is your turn to be a year older than yesterday.

(And an early greeting to Whatsnext)

<Sniff! I wanna go to Brussels!>

Happy Birthday to all the Virgos!

Cheers skids.

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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Happy birthday to all!

Happy Birthday to Whatsnext!

(Large slice of chocolate cake waiting)

And Happy Birthday today to the eternally youthful SkidMarks!

<Blows squeaker>

Fireworks all around! (Apols to those of you for whom it's early morning.)

But if you are in Sydney, you are not allowed to look at them!

AVERT THINE EYES!