sf > wrote in
:

> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:54:02 +0000 (UTC), "I'm back on the laptop"
> > wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine is going to hold a 500th birthday party for his
>> dining table.
>>
>> Yes, the table is (technically) 500+ years old. It has been
>> authenticated to have come from an old English 'manor' and was made
>> approx 200 years ago. The timber the table is made of has been
>> examined, and it has been deemed by some tree expert dude that the
>> timber was approx 300+ years old when it was cut down to make the
>> table.
>
> What a fun excuse to have a few friends over!
>


That it is ....... not many people get a chance to say they've been to a
500yo's birthday party.

*Although*, this will be the second 500th+ I've been to :-)
The first was for the township of Huissen in the Netherlands.

Back then (1991?) I was a member of the Bavaria Bier Parachute Display
Team. It was the townships birthday, and we were hired to do a jump
into/over the town. The LZ was a postage stamp sized piece of ground
bordered by a major freeway on two sides, a swamp and a large lake on the
others!!

I flew down the Langestraat at about 100' and caused a bit of a stir
amongst all the coffee/beer drinkers at all outside cafes down below when I
yelled out for someone to bring me a beer, zipped around the library at the
end of the street/mall, zoomed across the freeway and did a hook turn into
the LZ.

*That* was a hoot!! And within about a minute of landing, I had half a
dozen beers (in big steins) being handed to me :-)

--
Peter
Tasmania
Australia