As someone born on 12 January, I feel truly seen by this post. Thank you for celebrating today with me, and for sharing such beautiful words of love, respect and laughter.
A super collection today, all worthy of note and yet wonderfully disparate in tone. It's always invigorating to be reminded how very different we all are at heart, however similar we may appear in day to day conversation.
From Idle's (brilliant) autobiography, 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life':
"He wrote me an amusing reply about how his cricketing friends always said the first fifty was the hardest, and invited me to 10 Downing Street, but sadly the newspapers found out and had a go at me for being too old."
As someone born on 12 January, I feel truly seen by this post. Thank you for celebrating today with me, and for sharing such beautiful words of love, respect and laughter.
Your footnote seems to imply you have readers that are unintelligent. Count me amongst them.
A super collection today, all worthy of note and yet wonderfully disparate in tone. It's always invigorating to be reminded how very different we all are at heart, however similar we may appear in day to day conversation.
Each one is wonderful but I always love Dalton Trumbo and Eric Idle. Both hilarious.
Oh, that E. B. White.
Did Eric Idle receive a reply? It reminded me of The Henry Root letters
From Idle's (brilliant) autobiography, 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life':
"He wrote me an amusing reply about how his cricketing friends always said the first fifty was the hardest, and invited me to 10 Downing Street, but sadly the newspapers found out and had a go at me for being too old."
Thanks, Shaun!