After a week when I’ve wanted to blog heaps!  Flopsy’s 4th birthday was yesterday and we had a children’s party on Thursday at a local soft play place - I’ll post some photos later on.  Her family party is next weekend and she’s very excited.  Not everyone she loves will be there this year, but never mind.  Hopefully there’ll be some nice long posts coming up soon LOL!  Just a short one right now, though, as DH is off to work soon (Sunday morning - poo!  And he’s got to work tomorrow Bank Holiday as well :-().

A bit of light relief from all over the blogosphere, but first seen at Atypical Homeschool.  Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday month and day only.  List 3 events that occurred that day, 2 birthdays, 1 death and a holiday or observance (if there is one!).

 Me first (31 Jan):

Events (mostly pretty grim ones so hard to choose which to post here!)

1. 1606: Guy Fawkes executed for his part in the Gunpowder plot
2. 1747 (you’ll laugh at this one Georgina!): First Veneral Diseases clinic opened at London Lock Hospital
3. 1990 (you’ll like this one as well, George!): First Russian McDonalds opened in Moscow

Birthdays

1. 1981 - Justin Trousersnake…sorry…Timberlake
2. 1956 - Johnny Rotten!

Death (Apart from Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators as mentioned above!)

1. 1956 - A.A.Milne

Holiday/Observance

1. Catholic Feast Day of St. John Bosco

DH (8 March):

Events

1. 1817 - New York Stock Exchange founded
2. 1911 - International Women’s Day celebrated for the first time
3. 1978 - The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

Births

1. 1943 - Lynn Redgrave
2. 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jnr

Death

1. 1702 - William III of England

Holiday/Observance

1. Mothers’ Day in Eastern Europe

I won’t do the girls or it will take me all night!  Might do them some other time