10.00 p.m.
The library table is covered in cards including one from a cheeky so-and-so who claims to have misheard the age. Congratulations on your 18th birthday!!! Most people seem to have guessed the right age despite my promise to reveal it to nobody, although guesses 5, 10 and 15 years younger were made. It is now no longer a secret (see heading)
Every glass and mug in the house has been used. The first phone-call came at 8.15 a.m., the last and youngest visitors have just now left. Large parts of Lincolnshire were unpoliced this afternoon while every officer in the area was here drinking tea with the birthday boy. His youngest visitor was just a few months old, and the rest covered all of the next 8 decades.
Miseryguts has had a lovely day, and even admits it.
angelkirstin
Something indeed to celebrate, gald he enjoyed the day