I finally admit...
 

It's now 5.30AM Sat October 1st, 2005, and the time I emerged.

How inconsiderate I was, keeping my mum awake all night.

I noted with some interest the day before I was born was the day James Dean chose to make his untimely exit from the world in a Porsche Spyder named "Little Bastard". I bet that hadn't even made the news by then!:)

let me be the first to wish you a happy 50th birthday Keith :)

hope the day goes well for you.

cheers
Cliff:salute:

PS> it is 0605 here in Queensland on a bright clear morning that promises 25C by 11am at least and with a top of around 30C. A real nice spring day.

Thanks, Cliff
 

6:12 here and a reasonably nice day - mostly sunny top of 19.

A relaxed day planned - breakfast at a cafe planned with Belinda, than a family BBQ tonight.

Happy Birthday, Keefy
 

Hi Keith,

Have a very Happy Birthday.

Congratulations, you are now a full member of the 50's Club. don't be surprised if you start going grey, joints begin to creak and an intolerence of pop music, they are all signs that you have made it! Speaking from experience, my membership started four years ago.

Take it easy today , mate :salute:

Best Wishes,
Richard

On This Day
 

Hi Keefy - 0611 SA time

A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM ADA & BOB

Just think, a half a hundred years ago you hit the planet looking for your first Blitz. Have an absolutely brilliant day mate.

Salesman Bob

Re: Happy Birthday, Keefy
 

Thanks, Richard

As for the symptoms, I wish they'd waited until my 50th! The bad tooth fairy has been regularly visiting, stealing my hair and exchanging it for weight.

As for the intolerance of pop music - I'm afraid that's been instinctive most of my life. I hate having crappy nonsense crammed into my ears by an industry bent on making money out of me. I prefer to choose what I listen to (like CMPs, radials and Merlins).

And a big thanks to you too, Bob! I think I might just slip out to do a bit of work on the FGT before the family awaken. A good way to start the next 50 years, eh?

Keefy having breakfast with his family:sheep: :love: :sheep:

Oh dear
 

I was wondering whether that would reappear!

It gave my family a laugh though. Perhaps I was thinking how well she'd go as lamb sandwiches!

In a small change of plans my eldest daughter is making breakfast - fresh orange and lime juice with fruit from our trees and we're poaching some eggs from our chooks - the bread is bought, but we're partially self-sufficient.

Also about to try a new coffee blend from Big Al's in the Preston Market - he calls it "Dusky Katrina" - a name he feels is memorable.

Well, Happy Birthday Keefy, and welcome to the Ol' Fart's Club, where you gradually realize that you just don't bend the way you used to!

On Sunray's 50th, I gave him a live .50 cal AP round. Has anyone blessed you with the same?

Here's the card
 

Very nicely drawn by Katie's boyfriend Ron:

HAPPY
50th
BIRTHDAY
KEEFY

:love: Ma :yappy:

See someother folks born on October 1st through the ages ...

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 01:
1207 Henry III king of England (1216-72)
1685 Charles VI Holy Roman emperor (1711-40)
1746 John Muhlenberg Lutheran pastor/general/congressman
1760 William Beckford British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek)
1781 James Lawrence naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!")
1791 Sergey Aksakov Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
1799 Rufus Choate US, lawyer (Hall of Fame)
1832 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison
1835 William H "Red" Jackson Brig Gen (7th Tennessee Cavalry)
1847 Annie Besant [Wood], England, philosopher/thesophist
1865 Paul Dukas Paris France, composer (Vell‚da)
1881 William Edward Boeing founded aircraft co (Boeing)
1885 Louis Untermeyer NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems)
1890 Stanley Holloway London England, actor (Higgins-Our Man Higgins)
1893 Faith Baldwin New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love)
19-- Christine Andreas Camden NJ, actress (Taylor-Another World)
19-- David O'Brien Chic Ill, actor (Dr Larson-Our Private World)
19-- Robert Pierce Santa Monica Calif, actor (Bingo-Joanie Loves Chachi)
1903 "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom NYC, light-heavyweight box champ (1932-34)
1904 Vladimir Horowitz Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)
1907 Hiram Fong (Sen-Cal)
1909 Sam Yorty (Mayor-LA)
1911 Edward P Boland (Rep-D-Mass)
1911 Irwin Kostal Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show)
1911 Richard Torriani Switzerland, took 1948 Olympic oath
1914 Daniel Boorstin author (1974 Pulitzer Prize)
1920 Lonny Chapman Tulsa Okla, actor (Investigator, For the People)
1920 Walter Matthau NYC, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
1921 James Whitmore White Plains NY, actor (Give 'em Hell Harry)
1924 Jimmy Earl Carter (D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
1924 William Rehnquist Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- )
1927 Tom Bosley Chicago, actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1928 George Peppard Detroit Mich, actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max)
1928 Laurence Harvey actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet)
1930 Richard Harris actor (A Man Called Horse), singer (MacArthur Park)
1935 Julie Andrews England, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
1936 Charles G Fullerton Rochester, NY, astronaut (STS-3, 51F)
1936 Edward Villella US, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)
1936 Stella Stevens Yazoo City Miss, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou)
1945 Donny Hathaway Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love)
1945 Rod Carew baseball slugger (AL Rookie of the Year 1967)
1946 Eva Klobukowska Poland, relay (Olympic-gold-1964)
1947 Stephen Collins Des Moines Iowa, actor (Star Trek I, Tattingers)
1948 Ellen McIlwaine Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel)
1949 Annie Leibovitz photographer (Rolling Stones)
1950 Randy Quaid Houston Tx, actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, SNL)
1953 Greta Waitz Norway, marathon runner (NYC)
1955 KEEFY
1960 Elizabeth Dennehy actress (Guiding Light)
1962 Trevor Baxter record holder for high jumping with a skateboard
1963 Beth Chamberlin Danville Vt, actress (Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light)
1963 Mark McGwire Oakland A's (AL rookie of year 1988)
1968 Jay Underwood actor (The Boy Who Could Fly)

October 1st
 

Thanks, Carman!

Ony problem with that list is most of 'em are dead!:eek:

Re: October 1st
 

Don't worry about it too much, Keefy! We're all on that track sooner or later... :D

BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YA OLDE FARTE!

Re: I finally admit...
 

Keith, congratulations with your 50th birthday. Here's to the next 50! Have a great day celebrating with your family. It seems they do their best to not let it pass unnoticed - great drawing! (No comment on your table companion...)
:cheers:
Hanno

BTW, prize yourself lucky the death of James Dean hadn't made the news by then; the name your mother must have been calling you during the night could have stuck - "L.B.K. Webb" :D :D

50
 

Keefy are you really 50,you're holding your age alright, better than that old bugger I'm married to. Happy Birthday from all at Willow Vale.
Kathy

Happy birthday Keith.......Haven't we seen that rabbit before... at Ettamurgah?

Re: October 1st
 

... but dead only in body ... not in spirit ... but YOU, you STILL have lotsa years to do lotsa blitzing and filming my friend ... and filming that old bugger Kathy married while he's chasing those poor sheep on the farm with his army vehicles ... :eek: :D

Happy Birthday, Keith! May all your presents be wrapped in Cosmoline!

Note to the confused elderly gent: owing to the International Date Line, your birth at 5.30am 1 Oct 50 (1230hrs, 30 Sep 50 Californian time) occured BEFORE the time of James Dean's death (1430hrs)! So, no, I don't think it was in the news yet. Despite the fact that you cannot be James Dean reincarnated, there is no reason not to Revel Without a Pause on your birthday. :cheers:

Thanks, everyone!
 

Yes, we will revel without pause indeed!

I've just poured the first single malt and the family will be arriving shortly.

As for the cosmoline, yes, that's close - Euan found a real gem of a gift in Alice Springs - a genuine CMP jack handle which I'll photograph soon.

The other very enjoyable pasttime today was to remove the exhaust system (or what was left of it) from the FGT, I've replaced the manifolds due to sheared studs and was just about to bolt the replacement pipes on when there was a cry from the laundry to the effect water was running down the walls.

It was an extremely bad plumbers short cut which caused it - needless to say the exhaust system is still in the "almost on" stage and I'll miss having my 50th birthday ride - oh well, tomorrow will have to do. At least the laundry plumbing honeydo has been completed.

Keefy's health
 

Just about to have a scotch or two and drink to your 50th, well thats my excuse cheers:cheers: old boy
Max

I'm over it
 

Everyone gone by 9.30, so that suits me!

(I'll be up early bolting that exhaust system on). At least I can then drive on Oct 1st in Canada! Thanks again to all who have expressed their birthday wishes - I even had a call from Brian Gough - terrific.

My sister gave me a very thoughtful gift - the Tamiya cab 12 FGT model. Been quite a few years since I've built a scale model - usually go in for the 1:1 version I can drive.;)

Well???
 

So .... how's the Birthday boy now? :D

Hi Keith

Just read that you've passed your fifties. No worries, as we Aussies say ;-) Still some years to go. But perhabs you'll have to go to a repairshop as your old CGT... hopefully not too soon.

All the best wishes from Auckland. Think I'm the most Southern birthday wisher so far.

Greetings
Chris

Enjoy your next 50 years!

How are you today Keefy, now that you are closer to 100 years?

How dose it feel to be 50 and one day?

Did you know that you are now over half way to being 100 years?

Dose that make you feel old, expechaly when you are more than twice my age?

:yappy: :yappy: :yappy:

Emma

Wippersnapper!
 

That's enougth out of you, young lady!

You need to respect your elders.

At least I got to 50, isn't that enough?

And thanks, Chris - hope you're enjoying New Zealand, or Na Zillun as it's pronounced over there.