Time to do this again

[fpb]

Tomorrow is my 48th birthday. Two years ago I posted this request, and I think the time has come to repeat it:

Here is my wish, for anyone dropping by, who has a few extra seconds: you share with me some special memory. This was sartorias' suggestion, which I cannot improve upon: I know how busy people are. It doesn't have to be long. One good thing

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[cheyinka]

The very first time I went into the campus chapel at Seattle University, I was struck by how effectively the walls cut out the sound of traffic (the school is in downtown Seattle) and general campus noise, making it almost perfectly silent - my own breathing was the loudest noise, and I hadn't just run a mile or anything like that. That sense of silence was my absolute favorite thing about the chapel, and it's something that even the local free paper commented on - though for them it made it one of Seattle's ten scariest places!

[lazy_neutrino]

Happy Birthday!

[fpb]

What a nice guy. Thank you!

Happy birthday

[deansteinlage]

The day I made bouillabaisse for my wife on Good Friday 7 years ago. She didn't like seafood much and didn't understand the Catholic no meat on Fridays in lent. Bouillabaisse is a family lent tradition now.

I cudgelled my brains for three days, my dear fellow –

[wemyss]

- knowing that on so many counts, from your being a townee to your preferring footer to cricket, my memories should do nothing for you.

Such as it is, then, I trust you also find pleasing:

The West End after rain, at night, when the theatres let out upon a gleaming pavement;
The pewter of the Thames in late winter light just before dusk, looking upriver towards the Chilterns;
Congenial company and a keen appetite at Wilton’s or Simpson’s;
Swans and ducks where the River Kennet debouches into the Thames at Reading;
Blackwell’s, Oxon;
State Openings;
Remembrance Sunday and Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ from ‘Enigma’;
Boris bringing proper buses back to London;
Any of Wren’s churches (RC though you be);
The Bramah Tea Museum.

Many happy returns of the day, old boy.

Re: I cudgelled my brains for three days, my dear fellow â“

[fpb]

Thanks. Although a townee, I do appreciate the countryside (I learned English in a lovely Kentish village outside Canterbury), though my favourite part of the world, and the place I would move to if I were rich, is the mountains. Half of Italy is mountain, and their valleys and forests and the wonderful little white villages in the valleys, are one of Italy's less known glories.