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I've often wondered why people put such an importance on birthdays after all it's just a date and a normal day, people say happy birthday as if it's your last, ok everything is changing with your body but your basically the same person as you were day before. For some it's important as is today after being in and out of hospital my mam is 93 which is a great age and I hope that she enjoys herself after all she is my mother and I love her very much and hope that she lives until 100, what stories she will have to tell and what memories she must have good or bad. Then you come back down from 93 to 22 which will be my daughters age on the 1st of next month, what a difference but she is just the same maybe a bit happier but she's still our daughter. Yesterday everyone went back to their respective homes and just my wife, daughter and myself left, barbie went great, good food, sunny day and then the heavens opened, thunder, lightning and hail stones the size of ping pong balls, what a way to end a delightful day but that's the weather for you, changeable, as it is all over the world but we have only ourselves to blame after all we burnt and are still burning fossil fuels which scientists are saying is destroying the ozone layer which is the main cause of the drastic weather changes,when will we ever learn. The same can be said for the lunatic in the Kremlin who is getting his own people killed over a pointless war and one that with the help of the west he will never win so now he's trying different tactics by threatening the UK saying that if the Ukrainians use British weapons against Russia on russian soil then the UK will suffer the consequences, is he that full of bull or what, somebody needs urgently to get rid of him by whatever means nessasery. All he and the other idiot in China are doing is upping the anti as if it was a poker game with them having the upper hand but as with Hitler those tactics never work, you just get your own people killed and ruin your economy, they are just upsetting the balance of life on our planet and for what reasons, why are there so many idiots like them in the world today? Well that's all from me for today, try to enjoy going back to work, if you enjoyed todays blog then like, follow and share. Thank you. 

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