Sunday, January 24, 2010

Happy Birthday, Charles

My grandsons' other grandfather turns 80 today, or yesterday if you read this tomorrow or--but here's a factoid: Monday the 25th is the birthday of Robert Burns, still a big deal in Scotland.

Anyway, apparently Charles the grandfather was born on the 24th (that would be 1930?) but evidently really, really late on the 25th--so late that his mother fudged a couple of time zones and declared the official birthday to be 25th, the same as you-know-who. So:
Long life, my Lord, an' health be yours,
Unskaithed by hunger'd Highland boors!
Meanwhile, here's another Charles with his own take on Robert Burns.

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