Whos' Birthday
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:00 am
And everybody missed Henrys' Birthday tsk tsk!
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Whos' Birthday
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Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:30 am
Not a forum Member Dave
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Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:21 am
Well he never remembers mine 
Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:22 am
Poor old Henry. It was his 146th birthday and not a mention here!
Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:03 pm
No. He got a good go on Google, though.
Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:28 pm
Oh, No we didn't
Yesterday from 2pm til about 3.45 (we were booked from 2-3) Illawarra Breakfast Poets were entertaining at a retirement village. We chose special material and mentioned several times that it was Henry's birthday. I read my 'A Poet's Dream' and we were rewarded by a old gent who came up when we finally finished and told us his mother knew Henry well. He also told us that Henry was an illegal immigrant and that his real name was neither Henry nor Lawson.
They must have liked us because they would't let us out the door unless we made another 'date'. They even threatened to pay us next time..
Yesterday from 2pm til about 3.45 (we were booked from 2-3) Illawarra Breakfast Poets were entertaining at a retirement village. We chose special material and mentioned several times that it was Henry's birthday. I read my 'A Poet's Dream' and we were rewarded by a old gent who came up when we finally finished and told us his mother knew Henry well. He also told us that Henry was an illegal immigrant and that his real name was neither Henry nor Lawson.
They must have liked us because they would't let us out the door unless we made another 'date'. They even threatened to pay us next time..
Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:44 pm
Goodonya Zondrae I was to go to a retirement village but have been a bit crook so didn't make it. 
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Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:11 am
When you are crook you go to the hospital Dave ? Not a retirement village you ain't that old yet mate !
Bob
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Re: Whos' Birthday
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:30 pm
Sorry to hear about your car accident Zondrae. The old gentleman at the retirement home was obviously confusing Henry with his father, Neils Hertzberg Larsen who was born in Norway, became a seaman and is said to have jumped ship in Melbourne to join the goldrush. For unknown reasons Henry was christened Henry Archibald Hertzberg LAWSON and his father then anglicized his own name to Peter Lawson.