Happy Birthday – according to Facebook it is your birthday today, or at least lots of people seem to be having birthdays so it could be yours. I have already sent birthday greetings to three people, one an old school friend, two quite new Facebook friends who I have never met in real life.
At least twice I have received a birthday message from someone who wrote ‘Facebook keeps telling me to wish you a happy birthday so I suppose I had better.’ This led me to ponder what comments we might put on the Facebook birthday line…
‘I don’t know who the hell you are, but Happy Birthday.’
‘I have absolutely no recollection of becoming your Facebook friend, but what the heck, happy birthday and have a wonderful day and year and life….’
‘If you keep stalking me on Facebook I shall be contacting my solicitor.’
There is still hope for our government and the country itself as long as citizens like Count Binface are putting themselves forward as candidates for parliament.
Do you ever get that déjà vu feeling when watching the news? I’m sure most of us do. When hearing a holiday maker in Greece recounting her escape experience from the terrible fires it sounded very familiar. After a boat trip they were landed on a beach to make their way back to the hotel and wait for information to see if they needed to be evacuated, but as the boat left they looked up to see people fleeing from the hotel as it was engulfed in flames. The sea was the only means of escape. Hmm, that’s the story I wrote two years ago…
Do you ever get the wrong image when listening to the news on the radio…
‘Flights are still landing on roads’ .. what? OH Rhodes!
Handy hints for prospective holiday makers on the news
‘Contact your holiday company to check if you will still be able go ahead with your holiday plans to the wild fire area. Some holiday companies are sending empty flights to evacuate holiday makers…’
How was your day today. Have you any holiday plans?
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
No holiday plans for me (thank goodness!).
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Yes Liz, there’s a lot to be said for staying at home!
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I no longer watch the news here, they are depressing and this corrupt government continues on and on🥰
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Yes Arlene, much better for your health to avoid the news!
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Could not agree more! The only way I find the news palatable is via the satirical comedy on Radio 4. Dead Ringers at 6:30 on a Friday night at the moment. Tonight is I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. So perfectly ridiculous, it’s not just an antidote to panel shows!
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Sometimes I think I’m listening to dead ringers and it turns out to be real!
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At least twice I have received a birthday message from someone who wrote, ‘Facebook keeps telling me to wish you a happy birthday, so I suppose I had better.’
If that’s all it takes, parents don’t need a babysitter. They can have Facebook tell their children what to do.
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Computer sez so. No need to remember anything or take the trouble to send a card, hey?
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And sometimes you discover how old your friends are!
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I wonder if Facebook tells children to thank aunty for the birthday present.
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The only holidays I go on nowadays are vicarious ones, courtesy of other bloggers.
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Yes Audrey, I have been all over the world with other bloggers!
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Happy impersonal e birthday.
In the mountains in Slovakia with rain forecast today. Thankfully no wild fires although for the first time in my life, I heard the soulful sound of wolves howling last night! I don’t have perfect pitch, but I reckon B flat.
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The wolves must have been spine tingling, though obviously not as chilling as the foxes of Southbourne!
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It was very primeval! It made me feel very connected with nature.
There’s nothing quite so fierce as an urban fox!
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I am quite grateful to Fb for reminding me that friends are having a Birthday because not all of them have told me when theirs is so I wouldn’t know to send a card or email. But of course some of them have lied to Fb about their age or Birthday! I have decided that the News is bad for my health so just check occasionally to see if anything important has happened. Years ago we went to visit someone on the day Princess Di died – they hadn’t heard and when we went out nearly had a serious ‘foot in mouth’ incident!
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I have more than once been very grateful for Facebook reminding me. Rolling news is too much, but of course there is the odd occasion when you might miss something monumental if you wait till the evening news!
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As long as anyone wishes me happy anything, I am content. Guess what? I made the quarter-finals. If you find the time, could you vote for me once a day until next Friday? Here is the link – https://favchef.com/2023/bernadette-laganella. Thanks for your support❤️
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