Have you been out today?

Happy birthday to me. Tra la la...

And while I'm here: I don't usually bother with them there meme things but seeing as I read about this one (over on Pete's blog, as with everything) on my birthday and it's about birthdays it would seem churlish to ignore it.

"Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ/blog with three neat/important events, two births, and two deaths!"

April 8th

Events:

1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

1904 - France and the United Kingdom sign the Entente cordiale.

1994 - Body of Kurt Cobain discovered in his Washington home after having died three days earlier.

Births:

1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and composer (d. 1978)

1968 - Patricia Arquette, American actress (my long lost twin)

Deaths:

1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890)

1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)




Update:

Had a very splendid day in the course of which I received this card from my good friend Mr Reynolds.



That's me that is.