Birthday Greetings to a Forumist

[fermi de Sousa]

Happy Birthday, Joakim!
WIll you be celebrating with smorgastorte or something Portuguese?
All the best,
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Birthday Greeetings today to Fumi, in  Michigan in the USA... hope you're having a grand day!

[Maggi Young]

Well, it's July the Fourth, American Independence day... hope you'll enjoy your day, America... but, more important to us here on the Forum,  it is Henk Westerhof's birthday!
Happy Birthday, Henk!
Happy Birthday USA!

[Joakim B]

Happy birth week Fermi. I missed the day but got the week.
Did You have Australian, Indian food or Portuguese?
Thanks for the greetings Maggi and Fermi
I had Prinsess tårta och jordgubbs tårta. Princess cake and strawberry cake. The classic birthday cake and the classic midsummer cake. All with a lot of cream and that is the big difference between Swedish and Portuguese cakes.
Smörgåstårta Sandwich cake is not my favorite since I have eaten to much of it in my Youth. It is sandwich style with a lot of mayonese and prawns and not so much summer to me. But it is a classic one to have as a dinner cake
I had princess cake as my dinner cake it is just to eat enough of it, then it works as dinner .
Pricess cake can be bought at IKEA for those of You that are interested. It is a frozen version so it is a bit different.

Kind regards
Joakim (that wants cake now but will only get sa plain cup of tea if he is luckey.)

[annew]

Did somebody mention cake...?

[Maggi Young]

Celebrating her birthday today is Doreen S. from London... hope the sun is shining down there with you, as it is here, Doreen. Many Happy returns of the day!

[Anthony Darby]

Don't mention cake. I put on weight if I walk past a cake shop on the other side of the street!!!

[Maggi Young]

Very special Birthday Greetings today to someone, who while he does not post to the Forum, is a very important contributor both of the SRGC Website and to the SRGC as a whole... Glassford Sprunt celebrates his eightieth birthday today.
 Many Happy Returns of the Day, Glassford 
Glassford has contributed to the Club in SO many ways over so many years, that it would take several days to list his achievement.... so I'll just mention a few...he has, of course, served as our President, he has served as Group Convener for Stirling... he exhibits... he lectures.... he provides photos for the website gallery, he has contructed masses of super woodwork for the gold medal winning SRGC show displays for Strathclyde and Ingliston ( rather amusing that.... Glassford is a retired orthopaedic surgeon... you can't keep a good "sawbones" down!!) .... he has compiled the entire index for the journals of  "The Rock Garden", a task that would demoralise a lesser man, he used to keep the SRGC Library... he still curates the SRGC Journal "back issue" service.....he is working on a huge library of photos of show plants.....he is in constant battle with rabbits and deer in his garden.... he built his own glasshouses, to his own design, one of the subjects of his Talks.....I could tell you more but I am exhausted just thinking about the ways in which Glassford has contributed to the health and vigour of this club......and on top of this he is a charming and generous man who will never refuse a request for advice or assistance....even if you have never had the pleasure of meeting him, you will see why he is so important to the Club and one of the favourite friends I have made through this super organisation.
So, raise your glasses, everyone, and  drink a toast to Glassford Sprunt, a hero of the SRGC.

 
Glassford Sprunt at a show with his trusty camera


Enjoying a Discussion Weekend dinner with Helen Amand and Maggi Young

[David Nicholson]

All the very best Glassford and I hope you enjoyed your day.

[ranunculus]

Birthday greetings, heartiest congratulations and love and thanks in equal measure from the alpine fraternity Glassford.....but we still aren't convinced you are eighty!

[fermi de Sousa]

Hear, hear!
cheers
fermi

[shelagh]

Yes Congratulations Glassford, we hope you celebrated with a wee dram or a glass of something sparkling. Looking forward to seeing you at the Discussion Weekend.

Shelagh and Brian

[Maggi Young]

In the best tradition of birthdays, Glassford's wife Deirdre had commissioned a rather snazzy cake for the party, attended by all their Family.... you will see from the rather special decoration thereon the importance that the SRGC holds in the life of Glassford!!


Glassford's 80th Birthday cake.... looks good doesn't it ? The baker did well to capture the SRGC Dryas so well in icing, i think... it can't have been the sort of request they get very often!

[Lesley Cox]

Here it is for you and for Ian Maggi. It looks very plain but I can tell you it is the moistest and most luscious cake I make. I hope you like coconut because it's loaded with it and as soon as it comes out of the oven, a hot syrup of sugar, water and orange juice is poured all over it, so it's literally swimming in syrup, delectably sweet and extremely sticky. Both Jean Wyllie and Billy Carruthers came back for second helpings when I took it up the Old Man Range a few years ago (well, an earlier version of course). I'll make another in January for the Mt. Hutt trip so Ian at least will be able to try it.   The mandarin segments were the closest I could come, in a hurry, to a 3 and a 5, but at least they're edible.

If I could I'd give you both a big bunch of snowdrops, Narcissus romieuxii forms, Cyclamen coum and the first Irises but I can't. Someone else will, I'm sure, provide some flowers.

Anyway, I just wish you both a very happy wedding anniversary, and a lovely day with Lily and friends.

Much love,
from Lesley

[ranunculus]

Yummmmmmmmmmmy!

Congratulations Maggi and Ian  ......   AND, of course, dear Lesley (just for making me drool at 7 in the morning)!!