Birthdays

How did you celebrate your birthday this year; how many presents and birthday cards did you get?
Today, the 24th August, it's my birthday. A clever computer-made card came from my son Jon and
his wife Sue, another was from Frances, a long-lost cousin from Southampton, who now sends me
lovely cards containing news of her family whom I've never met. In other countries, birthday
celebrations take various forms from Birthday Pies instead of Cakes, Birthday Noodles for lunch,
Birthday Candles, and in one far eastern country, everyone's birthday falls on the beginning of the
year! No such frivolity here, though. How many cards did I get? Just the two; but I remember the
times when I used to get none at all. I was a proper nonentity then!