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Many happy returns from the beautiful west of Ireland! 🙏🏼🧁🌟

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Happy Birthday for yesterday, India 🥳. I hope you were feted by your family and had a thoroughly marvellous time.

As always your posts are invaluable. Honestly, invaluable. I’d be lost without them and do appreciate how long they must take to compile - so thank you ❤️

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Happy birthday India ! 💐🌷🪻🌺🌸

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Happiest of birthdays India and thank you for the joy, perception and laughter you bring to us all

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Happy birthday!

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Wishing you a very happy birthday tomorrow dear India!! Xx love from kim x and my Woodbridge girlfriends!! We all think you’re fab!

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Happy Birthday, India! 🎂 🎉 I now need to know EVERYTHING about Barbara Skelton!

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Happy birthday, India!

And thank you for links:

1. I realise I had got Barbara Skelton and Ann Fleming mixed up (or combined) in my memory, were they both flagellants?

2. Edie Sedgwick, Amy Winehouse - it's so sad. I still can't listen to "Rehab", which made me smile when she was alive.

3. I loved that Martin Amis piece, so much that's good in it (which is another way of saying so much in it I agree with!)

4. I am jealous to be missing Monday night. I have a fantasy that we could take a private room in a nice restaurant (like Jeremy King's new one, the Park), and have a long lunch there, with everybody paying a set menu price, and basically do kind of musical chairs round a long table so everybody met everybody else. This fantasy is a testament to you, and to the quality of your commenters! Also, I do realise you have thousands of subscribers, so it's totally unrealistic....

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1. Yes but Ann F flagellant in whole different league I think. Did you ever read her letters, the ones edited by Mark Amory? She and Ian Fleming really not messing about. BS semi-interested at best (I think).

2. Horribly sad.

3. Me too. I love Martin Amis, including the novels.

4. Wouldn't that be lovely?

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1. I can't remember whether I read her letters, if so it would have been years ago. More likely I read a review of the Mark Amory book when it came out. Which reminds me, did you ever read that biography of Sir Richard Burton, and if so what did you think?

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Hope you have a wonderful birthday! Middle age is the best time of my life!

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Thank you! And it is of mine too, by miles.

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Happy Birthday! My birthday is on the 17th and have had to use ‘insufficient fuss’ a few times! Particularly if the idea of a joint birthday/Christmas present is suggested. :)

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Yes, joint is absolutely NOT ON. Happy birthday for Tuesday!

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Happy Birthday! A suggestion for your links posts - if a subscription is needed to read the article you’re linking to, add a £ symbol or suchlike?

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Yes it's a v good idea except that I never actually know if it's £ or not because if I've read it then I'm a paying subscriber.

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Happy Birthday! 🥳 I loved this post and the willful embracing of life! Carpe diem!

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Thank you and YES!

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Happy Birthday! Glad you love it! Mine is Monday and I’ve always adored my December birthday. Everyone is in a party and presents mood! I don’t understand negativity about December birthdays. We always used to put the tree up on my birthday — doubly exciting!

Now I do it earlier to have the tree longer, and love having decked halls for my birthday!

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Happy birthday for Monday! Dec birthdays are fantastic. I do exactly the same with tree - used to wait until day after, now do it early too.

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Have a very Happy Birthday weekend xx

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Thank you very much!

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Happy birthday for Saturday!

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Thanks Will!

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Happy birthday! Have a wonderful birthday day and a rewarding, happy year to come.

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Thank you so much.

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