Birthday News for today, 31 July: uk.media.radio.archers, 1995 and
Martha Woodford.

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In message <20230731070501.0328088182463659@umra.birthday.bot> at Mon,
31 Jul 2023 06:17:55, Birthday Monitor <nick@leverton.org> writes
>Birthday News for today, 31 July: uk.media.radio.archers, 1995 and
>Martha Woodford.
>
I like the idea of adding the year after the "person". (1960 for me.) In
the same way we sometimes have "last post". Perhaps people can say their
year sometime, so it's no extra work for the BM? (And people secretive
about their age not say, though I don't think UMRA has many such coy
persons!)

Wow, so UMRA is 28. Not quite half my lifetime, but close (though I've
just counted it through - not for another 7).
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

science is not intended to be foolproof. Science is about crawling toward the
truth over time. - Scott Adams, 2015-2-2

On 31-Jul-23 9:50, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> In message <20230731070501.0328088182463659@umra.birthday.bot> at Mon,
> 31 Jul 2023 06:17:55, Birthday Monitor <nick@leverton.org> writes
>> Birthday News for today, 31 July: uk.media.radio.archers, 1995 and
>> Martha Woodford.
>>
> I like the idea of adding the year after the "person". (1960 for me.) In
> the same way we sometimes have "last post". Perhaps people can say their
> year sometime, so it's no extra work for the BM? (And people secretive
> about their age not say, though I don't think UMRA has many such coy
> persons!)
>
> Wow, so UMRA is 28. Not quite half my lifetime, but close (though I've
> just counted it through - not for another 7).

28 is a splendid age to be.
My mother certainly though so, since she remained "28" even when her
youngest child was in his 50s.

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Sam Plusnet

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
> On 31-Jul-23 9:50, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>> In message <20230731070501.0328088182463659@umra.birthday.bot> at Mon,
>> 31 Jul 2023 06:17:55, Birthday Monitor <nick@leverton.org> writes
>>> Birthday News for today, 31 July: uk.media.radio.archers, 1995 and
>>> Martha Woodford.
>>>
>> I like the idea of adding the year after the "person". (1960 for me.) In
>> the same way we sometimes have "last post". Perhaps people can say their
>> year sometime, so it's no extra work for the BM? (And people secretive
>> about their age not say, though I don't think UMRA has many such coy
>> persons!)
>>
>> Wow, so UMRA is 28. Not quite half my lifetime, but close (though I've
>> just counted it through - not for another 7).
>
> 28 is a splendid age to be.
> My mother certainly though so, since she remained "28" even when her
> youngest child was in his 50s.
>

Whenever any of my father’s pupils asked him his age when they were in the
playground, he would always tell them that he was ‘99’ and of course they
always exclaimed ‘Oh, you aren’t Sir!’

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On 31/07/2023 18:37, Mike McMillan wrote:
> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>> On 31-Jul-23 9:50, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> In message <20230731070501.0328088182463659@umra.birthday.bot> at Mon,
>>> 31 Jul 2023 06:17:55, Birthday Monitor <nick@leverton.org> writes
>>>> Birthday News for today, 31 July: uk.media.radio.archers, 1995 and
>>>> Martha Woodford.
>>>>
>>> I like the idea of adding the year after the "person". (1960 for me.) In
>>> the same way we sometimes have "last post". Perhaps people can say their
>>> year sometime, so it's no extra work for the BM? (And people secretive
>>> about their age not say, though I don't think UMRA has many such coy
>>> persons!)
>>>
>>> Wow, so UMRA is 28. Not quite half my lifetime, but close (though I've
>>> just counted it through - not for another 7).
>>
>> 28 is a splendid age to be.
>> My mother certainly though so, since she remained "28" even when her
>> youngest child was in his 50s.
>>
>
> Whenever any of my father’s pupils asked him his age when they were in the
> playground, he would always tell them that he was ‘99’ and of course they
> always exclaimed ‘Oh, you aren’t Sir!’
>
Was he a bit flakey ?

On Monday, July 31, 2023 at 5:01:39 PM UTC+1, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 31-Jul-23 9:50, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> > In message <20230731070501....@umra.birthday.bot> at Mon,
> > 31 Jul 2023 06:17:55, Birthday Monitor <ni...@leverton.org> writes
> >> Birthday News for today, 31 July: uk.media.radio.archers, 1995 and
> >> Martha Woodford.
> >>
> > I like the idea of adding the year after the "person". (1960 for me.) In
> > the same way we sometimes have "last post". Perhaps people can say their
> > year sometime, so it's no extra work for the BM? (And people secretive
> > about their age not say, though I don't think UMRA has many such coy
> > persons!)
> >
> > Wow, so UMRA is 28. Not quite half my lifetime, but close (though I've
> > just counted it through - not for another 7).
> 28 is a splendid age to be.
> My mother certainly though so, since she remained "28" even when her
> youngest child was in his 50s.

Pah! My mum was younger than your mum: she always maintained she was 25.

It would have been my mother's birthday yesterday. She would have been 103 and no doubt still protesting that she was only twenty-five.

Nick
nickodell49@yahoo.ca

PS: Happy Birthday UMRA!!!!!

BrritSki <rtilburyTAKEOUT@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/07/2023 18:37, Mike McMillan wrote:
>> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>> On 31-Jul-23 9:50, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>>> In message <20230731070501.0328088182463659@umra.birthday.bot> at Mon,
>>>> 31 Jul 2023 06:17:55, Birthday Monitor <nick@leverton.org> writes
>>>>> Birthday News for today, 31 July: uk.media.radio.archers, 1995 and
>>>>> Martha Woodford.
>>>>>
>>>> I like the idea of adding the year after the "person". (1960 for me.) In
>>>> the same way we sometimes have "last post". Perhaps people can say their
>>>> year sometime, so it's no extra work for the BM? (And people secretive
>>>> about their age not say, though I don't think UMRA has many such coy
>>>> persons!)
>>>>
>>>> Wow, so UMRA is 28. Not quite half my lifetime, but close (though I've
>>>> just counted it through - not for another 7).
>>>
>>> 28 is a splendid age to be.
>>> My mother certainly though so, since she remained "28" even when her
>>> youngest child was in his 50s.
>>>
>>
>> Whenever any of my father’s pupils asked him his age when they were in the
>> playground, he would always tell them that he was ‘99’ and of course they
>> always exclaimed ‘Oh, you aren’t Sir!’
>>
> Was he a bit flakey ?
>

Much better than that - no one could lick him!

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On 31/07/2023 20:21, Nick Odell wrote:
> Pah! My mum was younger than your mum: she always maintained she was 25.

The lady who had been Daily Help to my Grandmother and then my mother
for about 20 years altogether, then sometimes looked after my daughter.
Daughter, aged about 4, asked her how old she was. Daily Help, aged
about 59, said she was 21. "My Mummy's older than you - she's 26!"

--
Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK

On 31-Jul-23 20:21, Nick Odell wrote:
> On Monday, July 31, 2023 at 5:01:39 PM UTC+1, Sam Plusnet wrote:

>> 28 is a splendid age to be.
>> My mother certainly though so, since she remained "28" even when her
>> youngest child was in his 50s.
>
> Pah! My mum was younger than your mum: she always maintained she was 25.
>
> It would have been my mother's birthday yesterday. She would have been 103 and no doubt still protesting that she was only twenty-five.

Your Mum was indeed younger. Mine would have been 107 last month.

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Sam Plusnet