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UMRA birthday info for 26 May 2024
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Birthday Monitor
2024-05-26 06:12:12 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
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Serena Blanchflower
2024-05-26 08:15:12 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
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Best wishes, Serena
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BrritSki
2024-05-26 08:22:13 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
<LW>
john ashby
2024-05-26 09:16:53 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
<LW>
MTAAW

john
Rosie Mitchell
2024-05-26 10:23:04 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.

Umra has lost some sparkle I think.

Rosie
Kate B
2024-05-26 11:35:14 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Indeed, very much missed. I shall raise a beakerful of the warm south a
little later.
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Kate B
Rosie Mitchell
2024-05-26 13:57:53 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Indeed, very much missed. I shall raise a beakerful of the warm south
a little later.
But not, I hope, with beaded bubbles winking at the brim. Keats could
have done with a better vintner.

Rosie
Kate B
2024-05-26 16:02:07 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Indeed, very much missed. I shall raise a beakerful of the warm south
a little later.
But not, I hope, with beaded bubbles winking at the brim. Keats could
have done with a better vintner.
Oh, I don't know. I always imagined one of those delicious light red
wines best drunk cool, poured from an amphora held by a Bacchante at a
little height above the glass. Not fizzy, just tiny air bubbles popping
in the sunshine. Could do with some of that up here right now.
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Kate B
Nick Odell
2024-06-02 11:39:29 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Indeed, very much missed. I shall raise a beakerful of the warm south a
little later.
Not the £139 per bottle The Warm South I hope? Not that our dearly
missed Sid isn't worth the money but that, even if I bought a bottle
at such a price I don't think I would dare to open it.

Nick
Kate B
2024-06-02 17:35:13 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Indeed, very much missed. I shall raise a beakerful of the warm south a
little later.
Not the £139 per bottle The Warm South I hope? Not that our dearly
missed Sid isn't worth the money but that, even if I bought a bottle
at such a price I don't think I would dare to open it.
No, a rather nice bottle from the Quercy which I hope he might have
appreciated (Wine Society bargain...). My father was once given a bottle
of Lafite Rothschild and told to bank it, not drink it. It might have
sold for about £139, I suspect. So of course he opened it at the next
opportunity and alas it was a shadow of itself... just a faint ghost of
its former grandeur. I don't think he regretted it, though.
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Kate B
Nick Odell
2024-06-04 04:29:04 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Indeed, very much missed. I shall raise a beakerful of the warm south a
little later.
Not the £139 per bottle The Warm South I hope? Not that our dearly
missed Sid isn't worth the money but that, even if I bought a bottle
at such a price I don't think I would dare to open it.
No, a rather nice bottle from the Quercy which I hope he might have
appreciated (Wine Society bargain...). My father was once given a bottle
of Lafite Rothschild and told to bank it, not drink it. It might have
sold for about £139, I suspect. So of course he opened it at the next
opportunity and alas it was a shadow of itself... just a faint ghost of
its former grandeur. I don't think he regretted it, though.
Argentina doesn't pay much attention to AOCs, DOPs or PDOs and the
like so, if I tell you that my proto-BiL kept a case of rather nice
champagne for very many years waiting for that special occasion which
would justify opening it, you probably ought not to take my use of the
word "champagne" at face value.

The convergence of a significant wedding anniversary of his, the
wedding of one of his sons and the wedding of his niece together with
a very significant birthday of an elderly family member was considered
to be that special occasion: there was a huge party and masses of
people came. At the appropriate moment all eyes - and glasses - were
turned towards the proto-BiL as he discarded the foil and the wire on
the first bottle.

But wait! Shouldn't the cork have flown away at the slightest pretext,
risking the eyesight of any one of the assembled guests? So why is
proto-BiL red-faced with exertion with the bottle gripped between his
knees as he tries to force out the stopper?

The amber-coloured, slightly viscous liquid that was eventually coaxed
out of the bottles wasn't unpleasant but it wasn't what anybody had
been expecting. On the other hand, nobody who was present at the time
has ever forgotten the occasion.

Nick

Mike McMillan
2024-05-26 15:50:55 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Rosie
Sparklers are extra Luv.
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Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan
Mike McMillan
2024-05-26 15:52:25 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Rosie
Sparklers are extra Luv.
…And their second Album was …
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Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan
Hellerat
2024-05-27 13:33:12 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Rosie
Sparklers are extra Luv.
…And their second Album was …
<Big Grin>

Rubbish.

RIP, Sid.
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Yassas,
Anne, Exceptionally Traditionally-built Hellerat
Chris
2024-05-27 15:17:03 UTC
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Post by Rosie Mitchell
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
Clinks coffee mug.
Umra has lost some sparkle I think.
Rosie
Yes, Sid was always making us chuckle, even as he weakened.

Mrs McT
Chris
2024-05-27 15:17:03 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Raises a mug of tea for the toast "Absent Friends"!
I have a cup of China tea here.

Mrs McT
Jenny M Benson
2024-05-26 10:07:20 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Forever missed, memories treasured.
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Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK
Ben Blaney
2024-05-26 15:19:27 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
RIP, lovely man. Thank you for everything.
Sam Plusnet
2024-05-26 18:48:25 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
RIP, lovely man. Thank you for everything.
Well quite.
I think a suitable beverage is in order.
Warm and happy memories of the most splendid man I never met in person.
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Sam Plusnet
Nick Odell
2024-06-02 11:43:56 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
RIP, lovely man. Thank you for everything.
Well quite.
I think a suitable beverage is in order.
Warm and happy memories of the most splendid man I never met in person.
We raised a glass of this:
https://rapanui.com.ar/default/licor-chocolate-500-ml.html

The whisky might be of dubious origin but the chocolate part is
fabulous and so umratic.

Nick
Ben Blaney
2024-06-02 15:30:41 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Another thought: has anyone checked in on Charlotte? I emailed a couple of
times, but didn't get a response. Sid's loss was substantial to us, so it must
have been monumental for her.
BrritSki
2024-06-02 15:45:09 UTC
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Birthday News for today, 26 May: Siderius Nuncius.
Another thought: has anyone checked in on Charlotte? I emailed a couple of
times, but didn't get a response. Sid's loss was substantial to us, so it must
have been monumental for her.
Haven't checked since last September:

Here's the word from Libby and Andy - better than expected thank goodness:

Libby here. Andy has spoken to Charlotte on the phone a few times
lately, and she seems to be managing pretty well on the whole. Still
not going out or seeing people, apart from neighbours bringing supplies
and the odd workman, and of course she misses Dai terribly. She’s using
the computer for emails, which she never did before, and even followed
the funeral of another close friend on the live stream.

Cheers Roger
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