3 Siblings, 3 Birthdays – On the same day!

What are the chances?

 

Having three children born on the same date is the perfect way to avoid forgetting their birthdays. On the other hand, it means three Birthday cards, three sets of presents, three sets of presents, and three Birthday parties on the same day.

The chances of ending up with the same dilemma as Jennifer and Driss Allali are an astonishing 48million to one. The couple are celebrating the extraordinary feat after their latest child, Sami, was born on October 7. He shares the same birth date as brother Adam, three, and sister Najla, five.

Najla was born at 2am on October 7, 2005, at North Staffordshire Hospital when the couple were living in Stoke-on-Trent. She was two weeks overdue and had to be induced.

Adam was born at the same hospital at 8.30pm two years later. He was one week overdue but was born without intervention from hospital staff.

The family moved to Eastbourne two years ago and had Sami at 9.40am last Thursday – another natural birth despite being ten days after his due date.

Mrs Allali added: ‘They can grow up together and all have their birthdays together and something to share. It is a special little bond between them.

‘The birthdays are going to be a logistical nightmare. If we think ahead, Najla will turn 21 on the same day Adam will be 19 and Sami 16. Imagine that.

‘Affording the big day for all three is going to be quite difficult. We haven’t really thought about it yet. Maybe we’ll have to buy presents throughout the year to afford it all.

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Surprise visit for complaining about Royal birthday cards!!

Please change your outfit!

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At 109, Catherine Masters has seen it all, especially when it comes to Birthday cards – including the last 5 cards she has had from the Queen….

On each of those Birthday cards, Her Majesty was pictured wearing the same yellow dress, prompting the great-grandmother to write suggesting it was time for a change. Little did she know that she would be getting a visit from one of the Royal family!

Prince William paid Catherine Masters a surprise visit, apologised and promised that his grandmother would wear a different outfit for the next card.

The second in line to the throne breezed in to see Mrs Masters at the Grange Care Centre in Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire. Mrs Masters and the casually-dressed young royal shared tea and scones during his 40-minute visit.

She said yesterday: ‘You should have seen the smile on my face when the handsome young prince walked in. He asked me why I was still so fit and I put it down to a daily tipple of gin until I was 80.

Mrs Masters wrote to the Queen about her dress earlier this year. Britons receive a Birthday Card from the Queen when they reach 100, and again when they are 105 and each year after that. The Queen wore a red dress in the first card Mrs Masters received, but in the others she was in yellow.

Buckingham Palace replied saying the Queen changed the picture every five years and would be changing it this year.

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Britain’s Oldest Virgin celebrates 107th Birthday!!

The worlds oldest virgin!

Clara Meadmore, 107, is Britain’s oldest virgin, and puts her longevity down to her abstinence.  Proud Clara Meadmore claims that she has never has sex because of the hassle that goes with it, and that she wanted to concentrate on her career as a secretary.

The retired secretary said sex meant marriage during her youth in the 1920s and 1930s and she wasn’t interested in settling down.  She has now reached her 107th Birthday and marked the milestone by holding a small party with friends at the Perran Bay nursing home in Cornwall.

Clara was born in Glasgow in 1903 just two years after the death of Queen Victoria and remembers the Titanic sinking and the outbreak of the First World War. Her family emigrated to Egypt, Canada, and then New Zealand when she was seven but Clara moved back to Britain in her twenties. She had to save up £500 – a considerable amount at the time – in order to return to the UK by herself.

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I would not want this cake for my Birthday!

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Is Christmas getting earlier?

One of the country’s top stores started its Christmas trading 145 days before the holiday.  Selfridges in Oxford Street launched its Christmas season on 2 August – its earliest-ever start for the store.

People keen to plan ahead can purchase trees, crackers, fairy lights or even a £500 life-size donkey. The store said previous sales had shown some customers, especially overseas tourists, started thinking about Christmas during August.

Last year, Selfridges sold more than 1,000 baubles during the first week of trading after opening on 8 August.   Selfridges Christmas Shop’s buying manager, said: “Christmas is coming earlier each year; I can see a time when we offer a capsule Christmas collection throughout the year.”

Personally, I like to be organised for Christmas – but shopping for baubles in the first week of August?  I think that is going a little too far. It always makes me sad when I go into shops and I see Christmas lights and hear Christmas music and it’s only august or September!  I feel that the surprise and excitement has been ruined and I have to actually wait 4 months for the day to arrive!

 When is the normal time to send Christmas cards?  I like to start mine in the first week of December, and you can guarantee that I will be still popping them in the post on the 23rd!  Last year I actually received a Christmas card in the middle of August, which was weird!

 If you are fed up of sending Christmas cards altogether why not send a Christmas eCard?  They are:

  • Free
  • Quick
  • Easy
  • Environmentally friendly

 

Visit http://www.ecards.co.uk/ for an easy card send this Christmas!

The best place for all your greeting card needs!

Birthday Joy for Pussycat Doll

Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger received an early birthday present last month, a shiny Dancing with the Stars trophy. And now the DTWS winner’s special day has arrived. Nicole turned 32 yesterday.

Is there also a wedding on the cards?

Lewis, 25, and Nicole, 31, split in January after 20 months together to concentrate on their careers.

But yesterday the glamorous couple were spotted openly kissing in Hollywood.

And it seems Nicole couldn’t contain her joy as she dropped a broad hint that wedding bells may be on the cards.

They took a tough decision and both regretted calling it off almost immediately, a source told The Sun newspaper.

When asked if she was looking for anything in particular while browsing clothes in a Los Angeles boutique, brunette beauty Nicole replied: ‘This year – my wedding dress.’

Simon Cowell has reportedly begged Nicole Scherzinger to stay on for the Judges’ Houses phase of the X Factor – with both Cowell and Louis Walsh fighting over who gets to work with her.

Despite the return of Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole, Cowell is said to be desperate to ‘liven up’ the new series of the show by asking popular guest judge Scherzinger to remain part of the judging panel.

The music mogul is said to have even offered the Pussycat Dolls star a private jet to get her to locations, something that could make Cheryl even more anxious about her position as a judge on the show after missing some of the auditions due being taken ill with malaria.

A source told The Mirror: “Of all the guest judges, Nicole was the one Simon and Louis got on with best. Cheryl and Dannii might still be on the show – but Nicole is the hot new girl on the block.”

“She is sexy, sassy and tells it like it is. Her opinions are valid when it comes to the contestants. And she looks great.”

Happy birthday from eCards Nicole!

Keep in touch with your mates – for free!

Post Uni Blues

Leaving university is a major life transition. It’s not simply the fact that life doesn’t revolve around lectures and essays any more. When you’re at uni, you get constant feedback on your work and you’re surrounded by a support network of friends and lecturers. The big wide world can seem less than inviting in comparison.

That’s what happened to Frankie, who studied philosophy. “I chose a course that interested me,” she says. “Employability came second but I felt proud of myself for doing it. When I started work, I grieved for my old lifestyle and the time I’d spent discovering myself as a person and expressing myself freely. I was doing a low-paid typing job and I felt I had no purpose.”

When you find yourself stroking your degree certificate after an eight-hour shift putting the heads on cotton buds, you can get quite low. Plus life gets more expensive when you leave uni and lose all those nice shiny discounts.

Feeling left behind

Psychology graduate Clare missed her friends when she left uni. “I went straight into temp working while waiting for a permanent job offer. There was no opportunity for regular meet-ups with friends and it almost immediately felt like we’d all moved on. It felt like starting my life all over again.” Clare says eCards has helped her keep in touch with her mates. “My friends and I are always using http://www.ecards.co.uk to send jokey cards when we are feeling a bit down, and we always make an effort to send birthday cards.” 

For recent graduates eCards can provide four main benefits:

  1. It’s a free service – wehey!
  2. It takes 60 seconds and no pen and paper
  3. It’s environmentally friendly
  4. Best of all, when your friend opens up an eCard in their inbox, a big smile will be on their face!

 

Don’t delay, visit http://www.ecards.co.uk today give a uni mate a smile!

Happy Birthday to the SMS!

Yesterday the SMS celebrated its 25th birthday!

The first text message (Happy Christmas) was sent on December 3, 1992, over the Vodafone GSM network in the UK from a Neil Papworth of Sema Group from an R&D lab using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone.

Since then Shorten Message Service has become the main source of communication in the world.

Figures suggest that it is only getting stronger with each person sending more and more texts per month. The average SMS’er sent 35 texts per month at the start of the millenium, now they send 357 messages per month.

And it’s now not only a way to keep in touch, SMS technology in 2009 generated in excess of $150 billion and that figure is set to reach $233 billion by the end of 2014.

So Happy Birthday SMS, we reckon you will be around for a while unless your big bro the email takes over with the introduction of the Internet to smartphones.

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Half Birthdays. Hot or Not?

Do parents really have to hold half birthday parties for their children to show case their wealth?  According to recent reports this has become a fashionable trend.

A Party Supplier agency quoted:   ‘They’re ludicrous, and I’m seeing them happening more and more – the excuse is always, “Oh, but my child has a winter birthday and so the kids miss out on a bouncy castle in the garden.” It’s madness!’

So what can you expect from a half birthday party?  Well, apart from the summer bouncy castle that little Johnny had been denied on his real birthday; one can expect Champagne, professional photographers and catered canapés.  I wonder if these half-year birthdays are not only about spoiling the children, but an excuse for parents to show off their affluence.

However, for some families the half birthday is not a new fad, indeed, half birthdays have actually been in the family for years.  One woman was reported to say: “Ever since I was a little girl, we’ve always celebrated half birthdays in my family. It was something that my grandmother did for my father so my father carried the tradition down to our family. It is a tradition that I plan on celebrating with my twins when they get just a little bit older.”

Work out you half birthday with the following method: add exactly 182.5 days to your actual birthday. A birthday on May 15 would make your half birthday on November 13 instead of November 15.  What better way to mark a half birthday then with an ecard? It is free; environmentally friendly and therefore there is no excuse not to celebrate a half birthday!  Visit http://www.ecards.co.uk/

Fighter Cheryl on Road to Recovery.

There are now indications of Cheryl Cole getting back on track by stepping out in public for the first time yesterday since being struck down with malaria.

The 27-year-old X Factor judge looked happy as she was pictured taking a brief trip to a coffee shop near Guildford in Surrey. Cheryl, dressed casually in a slouchy white top teamed with jeans and flip-flops, has been reported to look noticeably fuller faced and of a healthier size then she has done for a while.

Cheryl has spent weeks fighting her way back to health after contracting the disease on a trip to Tanzania; a surprise organized for her by good friend and backing dancer Derek Hough. Cheryl spent six days in Tanzania, on Africa’s east coast with Derek following her split from England footballer Ashley.

Cheryl’s people have quoted: ‘As we’re sure you’re all aware, Cheryl is currently taking a break from work commitments due to health reasons.  In light of this, we’re disappointed to confirm that she has had to pull out of both V Festival and X Factor Bootcamp.’

In addition to her illness we all know about split from (hopefully) soon to be Ex-Husband Ashley. Is Divorce on the cards for anyone you know?  If so why not send an ecard to mark the occasion.

 Lets face it, Cheryl is long over due a break from work; and now that she it getting one, it is the prefect time to send her ecards to tell her how amazing she has been thorough the last few turbulent months. 

Indeed, if you know anyone who has had a tough couple of months recently, or it is simply their Birthday, the ecard is your perfect solution.

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