Today is the day before my birthday, always known by me as my ‘Pre-Birthday’. At the supermarket yesterday, I bought a ‘special meal’ as a pre-birthday treat. A ready-to-cook pork belly with honey glaze complete meal, with black pudding, vegetables, and mashed potato. Enough for two, in ‘gift-box’ packaging.
So it is a ‘bung-it-in-the-oven-and-no preparation’ dinner, quick to cook when we return from the Bird Park later. (Weather permitting.) I will accompany that with a glass or two of Lindemann’s Australian Shiraz, then relax and watch something on TV later.
Three birthday cards have arrived already, along with a ‘mystery parcel’. Being a stickler for such things, nothing will be opened until tomorrow morning.
Getting a head start on your birthday is to be recommended, believe me. If you have never had a ‘Pre-Birthday Day’, you should try it.
I have never had a pre birthday celebration. It sounds like fun!
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Everyone should have one! Just like Christmas Eve, one day is not enough. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Nice!
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Happy Birthday. It is also our granddaughter’s birthday. She is nine today. We usually make our birthdays last a week, too what with the post being unreliable and our family being so spread out. We used to go to a local Ghurka restaurant but it burned down ( not their fault) This year we have two 80 years and one 50 year – all between January and May. However, our celebrations may be curtailed now we have a newcomer to the family.
Biscuit is seeing the vet on Friday and we hope everything will be OK. He spends most of his time asleep. I suppose at 12 that’s allowed!
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Good to hear about Biscuit. He will enjoy his old age with you, I have no doubt.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Birthday, Pete enjoy the Pork Belly 🙂 x
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Thanks, Carol. It was delicious! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Birthday Pete, have a great day week, month and year 🙂
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Cheers, Eduardo. I will try for all three. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy pre-birthday to you!
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Thanks very much, Margie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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sounds like a great kickoff your birthday season
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It was a lovely meal, Beth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Now that I realized that your birthday is the same as one of our daughter’s, I will be able to remember it. Now I just need to find your address so I will be ready. Happy pre-birthday. What on earth is pork belly and how do you cook it?
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An American who doesn’t know what pork belly is? Hard to believe, Elizabeth. 🙂
https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/h/honey_glazed_pork_belly_____.html
Glad to hear you have a Piscean daughter.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Well I had heard of pot belly!
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This is the American film ‘Trading Places’, from 1983. They are trading in pork bellies! 🙂
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I wonder why that name has disappeared here. I wonder what it is now called.
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/porkbellies.asp#:~:text=A%20pork%20belly%20is%20the,of%20meat%20products%2C%20particularly%20bacon. 🙂
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I loved the article. I realized that I had never understood that pork bellies was a real commodity!
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I use the month of my birth (June) shamelessly in a similar fashion.
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You have the bonus that you are named after it too. Well done, June! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Pre-Birthday, Pete! The meal sounds delicious. I LOVE pork belly! Cheers!
–Pam
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I am happy to report that it was all very tasty, Pam. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Woop! Woop! It’s your birthday…We gonna party like it’s your birthday…Drink Bacardi like it’s your birthday…And we don’t give a F cause it’s your Birthday!!!
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Happy Birthday Pete, enjoy the day
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Cheers, Bobby. The big seven-0 tomorrow. Hard to believe. Feels like it’s happening to someone else.
Best wishes, Pete.
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HAPPY PRE BIRTHDAY!! aNd Have a wonderful day tomorrow. x Michele
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Thanks as always, dear Michele.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Happy pre-birthday, Pete. It sounds like a great idea to me. A bit like the unbirthday celebrations by the Mad Hatter and Match Hair in Alice in Wonderland.
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Pre-Birthdays should be for everyone, Robbie. Import the trend! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Birthday to you! Enjoy the feast.
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Thanks very much. Lovely to ‘see you’ again! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happiest Birthday Pete! xox
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Thank you, dear Lara. xx
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy birthday and may you have many more.
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Thanks very much, Molly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy pre-birthday.
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Thanks very much, Fandango. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I had loads of pre-birthday days as a kid, as presents were given to me in the run-up to my birthday by family members and I always opened them there and then. Mum never wrapped up presents, and so just handed it to me with the words “Here’s your present.” Sam always wants me to wait to open presents until my birthday, but it doesn’t bother me one way or the other. Hope you have a great pre-birthday and birthday.
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Thanks, Stevie. Even though I know what Julie has bought me, I wouldn’t dream of looking at the gifts, or opening them until the 16th. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sam’s like that, but I wasn’t brought up that way. He’s the same about Christmas presents. I find it irritating sometimes, because as a kid I’d open the presents as I received them, just as I did birthday presents. He had to wait and thinks that’s right. I tell him neither of us are right or wrong, just different.
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Sounds great! I shall consider implementing a pre-birthday celebration this year! 😊
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It has to be done, Susanne. Why have one special day, when you can have two?
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Pre-Birthday, Pete! And Post-Birthday too!
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Thanks, Audrey. I am stringing this birthday out until Saturday night. We are eating out that night too! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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(1) First, my mother had a pre birth day party. The next day, she had a labor party. Apparently, she didn’t have any fun at either party. But I did. I was the life of the party!
(2) Beware the Ides of March. You may get indigestion from all that pork belly!
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Sadly, the meal portions are very small, David. I think the extra quality is supposed to make up for the reduced quantity! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Very best wishes to you and you certainly deserve a pre-birthday treat! When I was young, oh so many years ago I had a group of friends who enjoyed Christmas a lot and we used to have “half Christmas” in July. It was way more fun than real Christmas! I made a cake with an aeroplane that was stuck in snow which we enjoyed on a very hot day!
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It’s because I don’t make much of Christmas that I have a birthday week, Carolyn. Although I worked shifts for most of my life, I always took the week of my birthday off. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Enjoy and Happy Birthday. Warmest regards, Theo
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Thanks, Theo. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s a wonderful idea! Enjoy your pre-birthday day 😉
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Thank you. It has been really good so far. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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A terrific way to prepare for a birthday celebration – with a celebration!
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Exactly, John. Everyone should have a pre-birthday!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Pre-Birthday Day, Pete!
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Thanks very much, Liz. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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You’re welcome, Pete.
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I celebrate my birthday all week! Getting older is a grand thing.
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We should all have a birthday week!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Birthday in advance.
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Thanks, very much, Peggy. Where you live, it is already my birthday! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It will be the 16th in an hour.
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Let me wish you an “Almost Happy Birthday”! 🥳
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Thanks very much, GP. I like to get ‘full value’ out of my birthdays, especially those with a 0 in the number! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sounds like you’re catching up to me!!
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Looks like you will have a great day!! All the best for a very Happy Birthday!!
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Thanks very much, Darlene. I will make the most of today, as we still have rain forecast for Wednesday.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Enjoy your week Pete. The best present will be your driving licence. Fingers crossed 🤞
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Yes, that would be the icing on the cake, literally! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Have a good pre-Birthday, Pete! And best wishes for tomorrow!
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Thanks very much, Sue. 13C and sunny, so feeling positive!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here, and I’m off out soon
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This sounds like an excellent idea! I’m taking note of it. Happy pre-birthday, Pete, and happy birthday in advance. To many more!
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Thanks very much, Olga. You should have a pre-birthday next time! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ve always been a bit ambivalent about my own birthdays, but I do enjoy being pampered 😉 Happy birthday and all good wishes for tomorrow, Pete. Cheers, Jon.
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Thanks, Jon. Birthdays have always been a big deal to me. Probably because I am less interested in Christmas.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Happy Birthday!
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Thanks very much, that is appreciated.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sounds like you have the day before well to hand. chuq
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Wish you happy birthday in advance
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Thanks, Tanvir, that’s appreciated.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My pleasure 😇
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Happy Pre-Birthday!
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Thanks, FR. Making the most of it!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thats an great idea, as on the day itself, one normally wants to calm down. xx Michael
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Thanks, Michael. Pre-birthdays can often be better than the actual day! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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What a terrific idea… pre-birthday! Well, here’s a pre-birthday 🙂
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Thank you, dear Annette. I like to make the most of my annual celebration. One day is just not enough! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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