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The birthday meme
Apr. 12th, 2006 01:29 pmOkay, so gacked from various people, the Wikipedia birthday meme:
3 Events
1477 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England.
1916 - World War 1: The first Battle of the Somme ends.
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes is first published.
2 Birthdays
1836 - W. S. Gilbert, dramatist
1953 - Alan Moore, comic book writer
1 death
1962 - Neils Bohr, Danish Physicist
3 Events
1477 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England.
1916 - World War 1: The first Battle of the Somme ends.
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes is first published.
2 Birthdays
1836 - W. S. Gilbert, dramatist
1953 - Alan Moore, comic book writer
1 death
1962 - Neils Bohr, Danish Physicist
Yep, so I've got another cold. Felt rotten all day Wednesday and ended up spending Thursday in bed. And I slept about two-thirds of the day, which probably indicates that I needed the day off! The weather was spectacularly miserable - high winds and pouring rain almost all day - but there is something quite comforting about lying in bed, feeling slightly out of it with ferocious weather outside.
Anyway, today was booked as holiday anyway, so I'm not doing what I was planning to do today (trip to charity shop and bottle bank, perhaps making a start on the Christmas shopping) but I'm going to have another lop around the house day.
Incidentally, I'm also waiting for a delivery but of what, I don't know. We had a message on the answer phone a couple of days ago from someone who had been trying to make a delivery for two weeks but hadn't been able to find us! I know we don't have numbers on the wall (yet anyway; we've got them ready to put up) but the address is 'The Bungalow', 27 whatever. Next door is 25, we have a plate saying 'The Bungalow'. Not rocket science, surely!
I guess the delivery might be a birthday present from my brother-in-law, given he seems, unusually, to have forgotten it. So we've been thinking 'Allan's forgotten' while he's probably been thinking 'why haven't I had a thank-you call?'! Hey, ho!
Of course, we might have known what was going on a bit earlier if we had replaced our answer phone (we went broadband a few weeks ago and our old digital answer phone didn't like it - and yes, before anyone asks, we did have a filter on the line). No doubt one of my more technically-oriented friends will be able to tell me why (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
whumpdotcom, the_magician?)
Anyway, today was booked as holiday anyway, so I'm not doing what I was planning to do today (trip to charity shop and bottle bank, perhaps making a start on the Christmas shopping) but I'm going to have another lop around the house day.
Incidentally, I'm also waiting for a delivery but of what, I don't know. We had a message on the answer phone a couple of days ago from someone who had been trying to make a delivery for two weeks but hadn't been able to find us! I know we don't have numbers on the wall (yet anyway; we've got them ready to put up) but the address is 'The Bungalow', 27 whatever. Next door is 25, we have a plate saying 'The Bungalow'. Not rocket science, surely!
I guess the delivery might be a birthday present from my brother-in-law, given he seems, unusually, to have forgotten it. So we've been thinking 'Allan's forgotten' while he's probably been thinking 'why haven't I had a thank-you call?'! Hey, ho!
Of course, we might have known what was going on a bit earlier if we had replaced our answer phone (we went broadband a few weeks ago and our old digital answer phone didn't like it - and yes, before anyone asks, we did have a filter on the line). No doubt one of my more technically-oriented friends will be able to tell me why (
whumpdotcom, the_magician?)
