Thread: Happy 60th Birthday to Mendip!

^Cindy has the bigger penis

Now I’m worried there will be a Baby Jane moment, when Yogi comes in on a plate!

Mendy really knows how to kill the crowd.

Originally Posted by misskit

OMG. Mendip, you are a better person than I. If someone, anyone, had brought me a rat on a plate, I would have beaten them with it. And I am not joking. There would have been rat meat and broken melamine plate all over the room!

You must have quite a temper Misskit, these plates are indestructable. That pink one must be around 18 years old.

The wife reckons that these 'sugar cane' rats are a different species than the sewer rats but I'm not so sure. I usually take one forkful of meat just to appease her and it's not so bad, like gamey chicken I guess.

If she was fobbed off with some rat out of a sewer who knows, maybe the next pandemic will start right here in my bedroom!

Congratulations, reaching the ripe old age of 85 is something to celebrate especially for aTD members.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Only for some reason I just cannot click on the last page of the Dinner thread

I hear it can be difficult to get things to come up when you turn sixty. (KW told me)
Happy birthday anyway.

Oi! Leave me outta it!

Happy birthday mate God Bless

How could you pass up the rat, a bit of somtam and a few 40 chasers??? mad

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

^ Sadly enough, he probably made more effort for my Birthday than anyone in my family, however misdirected it was.

Maybe I'll print that off and make a Birthday card out of it?

My mum excluded of course. She sent me a couple of presents and my only Birthday card, although the presents were a bit strange.

Dills got skills

You might want to censor some of the pics first.

I decided to have a birthday dinner on your behalf.

A traditional bangers and mash with a volcano of peas erupting from the garlic mash. Surrounded by a rather decadent French mustard and pepper Bisto gravy.

sloppy sixtieth sausages

I knew it! Hiding in plain sight.

happy birthday big dipper

^ Thank you!

I haven't been called 'Big Dipper' for many years now.

Originally Posted by Shutree

I knew it! Hiding in plain sight.

You could have just said, 'Happy 58th Birthday'?


I haven't had so much interest in my Birthday since I had a party in our garden for my 4th Birthday. I still remember it... my mum made paper butterflies and hid them around the garden for us to find.

Happy days!

If I could go back and talk to my four year-old self I would probably change a few things, to be honest.


Anyway, as there's so much interest, what do you get for a Birthday present the man who has everything?

My wonderful daughter gave me a home-made present, straight out of Blue Peter. But it had some lovely messages on it which will remain private and reminded me why I am doing this. That present was enough to be honest, and just as well because after that things went downhill rapidly.

The wife and gardener clubbed together to give me a bag of Mont Clair. Not even wrapped.



My mum sent me a parcel of presents which is such a lovely gesture.

However, I do worry at times that she is gradually emptying her house of unwanted junk now that she's 89, and I feel guilty for even thinking such a thought.

The best of the crop were two pictures which I have stuck on my office wall... one of balloons drifting over Clifton Suspension Bridge (which I suspect came from a charity shop) and one of St Mary Redcliffe's church in Bristol, where my mum and dad married sometime around 1960 (I should know this...).



My mum also seems to have been emptying out my dad's draws and I received this marvelous gadget... which after endless maneuvering and lining up, and swapping between different pairs of glasses, you can tell exactly what day of the year a certain date fell on within around a 50 year window.

You can see why Google was invented.



And last but not least, this gadget for measuring to-scale distances on 'paper' maps. There is still a collection of a few hundred Ordnance Survey maps (which my dad collected) at home, but I just don't think they are relevant any more. What to do with them?

And this from someone who's job is partly making maps of the seafloor. Hard copy is just not relevant any more.



The end.

Can't wait for my 59th!

Originally Posted by Mendip

There is still a collection of a few hundred Ordnance Survey maps (which my dad collected) at home, but I just don't think they are relevant any more. What to do with them?

Wallpaper your office with them.

The UK is 243,610 sqkm

at 1:50000 x 1:50000 it would take a 97m2 office wall to memorialise the whole country in pink swirly contours, so maybe just pick your favourite bits

Originally Posted by Mendip

Hard copy is just not relevant any more.

If you find yourself up on Sergeant Man with the rain coming in and no battery on your phone the OS map will be your best friend.

Lots of people collect old maps. I love an old map myself.

^ I had to Google this 'Sergeant Man', and it's not on my itinerary fortunately.

Originally Posted by Shutree

I love an old map myself.

Assuming this isn't some kind of euphemism, you are very welcome to the relevant Ordnance Survey maps on your next visit to the UK, but why not just hire a car with SatNav?

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ I had to Google this 'Sergeant Man', and it's not on my itinerary fortunately.




Assuming this isn't some kind of euphemism, you are very welcome to the relevant Ordnance Survey maps on your next visit to the UK, but why not just hire a car with SatNav?

It's a good hike up Sergeant Man when the weather is fine. A map is more useful than a car up there. Stop at Stickle Tarn on the way down before hitting the Old Dungeon Gill for refreshments. Some fine walks from there. I'm not sure I'd get up the pikes these days and Pavey Ark is probably only a memory now.

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

Put them in picture frames and hang them,

Decent idea!