Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday dear Darren
Happy Birthday to me!
So 40 huh? Sad to say a lot has happened in the past 40 years:
I can remember getting a landline fitted at home,
I remember the Queens Silver Jubilee,
I remember the advent of the personal computer,
I remember the great music of the 80's / 90's
and I remember when Liverpool truly were the greatest football team!!!
Just for fun, please find below 40 facts and random thoughts associated with the number 40:
1. Life begins at
2. If I were an Israelite I would now be about to enter the promised land
3. Lubricant – WD__
4. A song by U2
5. Best selling singles / albums
6. weeks = length of a pregnancy
7. f-o-r-t-y :- the only number that is spelt in letters in alphabetical order
8. negative = The point on temperature scales where Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same
9. Length of Noah’s flood experience in days and nights
10. Length of days in Lent
11. No of winks in a quick nap
12. Motorway from London to Birmingham
13. Ali Baba’s Thieves
14. Reggae Band UB__
15. XL in Roman Numerals
16. Score in Tennis
17. Ruby Wedding
18. Hours in a working week
19. % upper tax bracket
20. My chest size
21. equivalent to size 7 in shoes
22. £34.86 equivalent in euros
23. 25miles equivalent to km
24. atomic number of zirconium (periodic table)
25. speed that a human could theoretically run?
26. stopping distance = 36metres at 40mph
27. Ford GT__
28. Roaring Forties – boisterous and prevailing westerly winds
29. Forties Field = North Sea Oil field
30. A symphony by Mozart in G Minor
31. A song by Dave Matthews Band
32. A song by Franz Ferdinand
33. Ronald Reagan 40th President (he also shares my birthday!)
34. Queen Elizabeth II 40th Monarch since William the Conqueror
35. Edison Lighthouse – Love grows (where my Rosemary goes) was no.1, 40 years ago
36. 18 plus 22 years of experience!
37. Fabulous forty
38. 40 – The old age of youth
39. Forty isn’t old – if you’re a tree
40. Days including today till St Patricks Day
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