Birthday Party

71 today, he's got the key of the door, never been 71 before!

Welcome to John and Elaine's hijacked barbeque known by me as my party!

A very, very big thank you to all of you that came, and for your generosity
........ Thank You!!

Even bigger thanks to John and Elaine for all their hard work, and for providing superb facilities within their lovely home; A special thanks too to Elaine for accepting the added responsibility by being appointed 2nd Assistant Artistic Director for our web sites and for demonstrating her photographic skills and prowess with the pictures of her barbeque and my party to follow!

How could I finish without mentioning our very own versatile Area 18, 1st Assistant Artistic Director, and super birthday cake maker, Margaret Knowles? I think it would be appropriate at this time to announce that Margaret is being seriously considered as 'Caption Maker' for an internationally known web site. Congratulations, may your verbosity continue!

Let the good time roll!


What the blazes is on going here? The room is spinning even before we've had a drink! Jennifer is jumping up and rushing off somewhere ... and someone has pinched my seat, much to the delight of Glynn and Barry, and John pretends not to have noticed!!

Marilyn, Glynn and Barry take great delight in pushing me to the floor; Peter and Elaine do the twist;Barry with his right foot thinks about climbing over a chair, and finally everyone leans in to the middle to be sure of being in the picture!!
John kindly straightens my legs so that they, and the heads of Jennifer, Marilyn and Glynn are in the picture opposite!!

Is Jennifer riding a Ducatti at high speed round the Nürburgring or just looking to see what is going on outside ... nosey like!? Now this is more like it! Here comes the birthday cake; John Knowles points to where he wants it placed and Bron suggests an alternative! John Bailey laughs to see such fun! Either it's too much, or too many, birthday cakes that make me look like Gulliver on his travels surrounded by the little people! Oh, to be only overweight instead of obese!
	John and Margaret in characteristic pose in front of a pair of Knowles sash windows, he's made a lot these you know! Well that's what he tells me, tells me, tells me! Oh dear Margaret, don't be so sad, your glass is half-full, and not as you are thinking half-empty, besides there's a lot more in the bottle! Margaret's despair has got to Barry and Peter too and Peter looks to Barry for inspiration but without much response!

With a mouth as big as that it should be possible to suck out the flames out instead of making a big show of huffing and puffing to blow out 6 token candles! Notice the delicacy of the knife work when performing the ritual cake cutting; surely those are the sensitive hands of healer ... is there anything you want healing, and don't say your shoes!
With those chubby chops it wouldn't be the first time I'd been likened to a squirrel, a red one, not one of the scruffy gray variety, I'll have you know!
Elaine. Our hostess with the mostess; who worked tirelessly to make this a night to remember. However, I think she may have failed ....... I can't remember .. a thing!
Marilyn looks as though she has had the cream! Gosh, looking at her plate she jolly well has too! Barry's expression suggests that she may have had his pudding as well!! Barry decided to show us how he makes himself sick by pushing a sanitized finger down his throat! See, it's easy when you know how!
	2 Pictures for the price of 1, what more could you ask? I must ask the Assist. Artistic Dir. about learning how to do this too!! Well, it's time to say Goodbye, but before I do just let me say thanks for a super evening and a fabulous present, I shall cherish it for ever and promise to show you the pictures contained within it each time you visit 4 Whittingham Lane. Bye for now, my very good friends John

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Our other Assistant Artistic Director has responded to the challenge of her rival Assistant A.D. and as if by magic has produced 19 additional pictures!

So here we go!


As Elaine gets ready to give a cookery demonstration, she secretly gives a Harvey Smith 2 fingers salute to the assembled audience! Jennifer looks on in eager anticipation of the start, Peter couldn't give a monkeys and looks out of the window, whilst Marilyn looks longingly at the wine in Elaine's hand and thinks I could use one of those right now!!

John and Barry take charge of the barbie, and whilst Barry goes to top up his beer John gets Margaret in a vice like embrace as he prepares to give her a good spanking with his tweezers! That should take the smile off her face!! Or will it, she might like it, you never know?

Ah haa, see I told you, Marilyn's happy now with wine in hand, but father like son Glynn's glass is empty again, so pop off Glynn and fill it up!

Either Elaine's neck has got longer or her hair has got shorter, but whatever it is her party pieces are always the right length! Bron politely strikes a pose and John looks on bemused! Whilst you know who prepares to take a swig out of the bottle!

Get off 'This is my cake' says I, as Peter peeps in to the picture, and Elaine with some sort of ritual tattoo on her bosom and cheeks grins broadly as she recites a poem to me that has been written during a sleepless night!

Everyone listens and enjoys Elaine's verse's

Gosh its me again! Reading aloud what she wrote! That can't be right ...... Reading the kind things that Elaine wrote! That's better. Thank you all for a lovely gift, I really must show it to you when you call, and if you're really good I'll show you the E Type steering wheel too!

Well, I think this is where we came in, as they used to say at the pictures when I was a lad! So thank you once more, it is always a great occasion when all of you are there!
Oh gosh I nearly missed this one, its Knowles the Sash in characteristic pose!!

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