BirthdaysMy best birthday so far was my 30th, when I held a Polish Bear Hunting evening in some woods - everyone dressed up in hunting gear, ate a Polish hunting stew round a big fire and then, armed with torches, ran out to find the foil-wrapped chocolate bears I'd hidden in the trees.
My worst so far was my first at university - my birthday was the first official day of term, so I thought there'd be loads of people there to have fun with. No, Cambridge is so posh nobody actually turns up on the first night. I got very drunk with the barman.
What extremes of birthdays have you had?
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chthonic, Fri 9 Dec 2005, 11:07)
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Worst and bestI have a collection of bad birthdays but nothing particularly serious, just rather boring times in the pub playing pool and drinking (like my 18th). My 30th was particularly memorable for being crap.
I was doing a degree as a mature student and as my birthday falls in June, I had an exam on the day and another at 9.30am the next morning. My friends were in a similar situation and nobody wanted to be out drinking the night before the exam. So I stayed at home thinking that I'd enjoy the England - Portugal group game from Euro 2000.
England went up 2-0 in the first 20 minutes but then fell apart and ended up losing 3-2 in a pretty dreadful performance. I treated myself to a can of beer for each half and did some revision before and after the game. Hooray, what fun.
My best birthday would be the most recent one, spending time with my better half when she made me a sponge cake that had the consistency of a fruit cake, the icing didn't set and she'd drawn a motorbike on the top with green food dye that ran through the icing. I honestly couldn't have asked for more and we had a great laugh despite both of us being out of work and penniless. I love her.
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S tr app y, Fri 9 Dec 2005, 13:49,
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