I have always known that Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede on 15th June, 1215 (which set in stone certain rights and protections eg habeas corpus which are still foundational to our laws today).  I also have known since I was a teenager that the very first aviation accident occurred on 15th June in 1785 (can you believe ?? - an "aviation" accident over 200 years ago) when two French balloonists were killed.

None of this is very impressive any more, because these days everybody can look up on the internet, type in "dates in history" and see what famous or interesting things happened on their birthday. 

Yes, I had a birthday.  Not a big zero birthday with bells and whistles and hoopla, but a nice day all the same.  Out for lunch to Don's favourite place, where they do a nice beef eye fillet, medium rare, just the way he likes it.  Being in the nursing home, he does get pretty good meals, things he really likes such as lamb roast so tender it is falling apart on the fork -- mouth-watering.  And a good variety, better probably than I used to cook when he was living at home.  But what they cannot do, obviously, is beef eye fillet medium rare.  How could you prepare a hundred or so of that?

I had been minding our little grandson Gavin for the weekend, so his dad came to pick him up and came to lunch with us.  He took a picture of us at the bistro, sitting in front of "Donald's Wool Press" - in the photograph you can't read the sign, but Don being an ex-shearer was quite impressed with it so we used it as a background.