Nana Mouskouri turned 90 yesterday!

Happy birthday Nana.

My mother’s birthday is this weekend - her and my son are coming up, and he’s on his school holidays then so he’s staying for the week while she’s flying back on the Sunday.

I’ve taken delivery today of many balloons - including 70 large pink foil hearts. I’ve had a tester run with a couple of the smaller balloons, and as ever, I can blow one up properly (both smaller than they should be, one burst), so I’ll never manage to do several hundred of them, so I’ve had to go back on Amazon to buy a balloon blower upperer device.

It's Cliff's 84th birthday today.

He doesn't look a day over 83.

cosmictanya wrote:

Happy birthday Nana.

My mother’s birthday is this weekend - her and my son are coming up, and he’s on his school holidays then so he’s staying for the week while she’s flying back on the Sunday.

I’ve taken delivery today of many balloons - including 70 large pink foil hearts. I’ve had a tester run with a couple of the smaller balloons, and as ever, I can blow one up properly (both smaller than they should be, one burst), so I’ll never manage to do several hundred of them, so I’ve had to go back on Amazon to buy a balloon blower upperer device.

I bought a balloon blower-upperer from Poundland once.

It didn't work.

It could be that I was using it wrong but I feel like there's not really a wrong way to use such a thing.

Then again, it didn't have instructions on it. So, I could've been using it wrong.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

cosmictanya wrote:

Happy birthday Nana.

My mother’s birthday is this weekend - her and my son are coming up, and he’s on his school holidays then so he’s staying for the week while she’s flying back on the Sunday.

I’ve taken delivery today of many balloons - including 70 large pink foil hearts. I’ve had a tester run with a couple of the smaller balloons, and as ever, I can blow one up properly (both smaller than they should be, one burst), so I’ll never manage to do several hundred of them, so I’ve had to go back on Amazon to buy a balloon blower upperer device.

I bought a balloon blower-upperer from Poundland once.

It didn't work.

It could be that I was using it wrong but I feel like there's not really a wrong way to use such a thing.

Then again, it didn't have instructions on it. So, I could've been using it wrong.

This one was £3.90 something, so here’s hoping.

However, I’ve now read Butterfields contribution about getting the ends tied, and realised that’s another problem, so I might have to buy hundreds of clips and rubber bands. I wonder if you can just staple them shut.

The letter "J" is 500 years old, this year.