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another year older

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April 4th 2016
This year Dad's birthday fell on the day of the Twenty20 World cup final, and as England were playing and Dad has Skye on the TV, it was felt that a few of us should congregate at his house and watch it together. So a "cricket tea" of sandwiches, scones and birthday cake was taken to Meifod, a bottle of fizzy wine opened, rather earlier than expected but we needed it after England lost early wicke ... read more

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