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Happy Birthday @BillyG
another year enjoying the Fiddle
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Bob
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August 23, 2017 - 2:06 pm
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Noticed the "Members birthdays" that this is your day. Hope you stuffed yourself with your favorite foods and did a bit of fiddling too :)

Bob in Lone Oak, TX

Bob in Lone Oak, Texas

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BillyG
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August 23, 2017 - 3:47 pm
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Awww  - TYVM @bob 

Yeah - hit number 65 - apparently, in the UK, I am officially retired.....

Nahhhh - that means nothing to me....

We had a couple of nights away in a hotel in my home-town of Dornoch, old haunts visited, old ( very old ) memories returning...  great stuff...  !!!   Lengthy walk along the huge open sands along the Dornoch Firth...   happy days, happy days...

I didn't have the fiddle with me - but I did play today when we got back !!!!

Thanks for your kind thoughts, it's appreciated !  hats_off

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JamesRSmithJr
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Happy happy Billy..  65 is the new 45 (I hope so since I am only 5 years behind you).

 

65, retirement?, 66 1/2 for me.  Or as I taunt my younger co-workers, 6 years, 2 months, 3 days...(not that I am counting).  

To play a wrong note is insignificant;  To play without passion is inexcusable.  - Ludwig van Beethoven 

 My journey began on Aug 3 2017

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATE....

Hope you and the misses had a good short holiday.

There is no sense in retiring, your friends will just expect you to work for free...lol

With violins there is no fretting over the music.

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BillyG
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August 24, 2017 - 2:01 am
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Thank you, and aye, @JamesRSmithJr - in my last full-time employment (large company which shall remain nameless) I had a daily count-down above my desk - but I got so sickened with having to get more involved in politics than engineering, I walked, and just went self-employed.   That was difficult to start with, but a LOT of fun, letting me do the things I really enjoyed.   

And thanks Don @OldOgre - we did, it was a nice break.  LOL @"work for free"....

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Jim Dunleavy
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Many happy returns Bill! :)

Another milestone safely reached eh?

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Fiddlerman
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August 24, 2017 - 1:04 pm
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Happy Birthday Brother!!!!

Hope you have a great one and enjoying your early birthday purchase. :)

"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."

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BillyG
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August 24, 2017 - 1:36 pm
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Ha, indeed @Jim Dunleavy !   Thank you !

And @Fiddlerman - thanks Pierre - I sure am !

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TerryT
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Well Happy Birthday Mr G ??????

I am amazed at how old people of my age are.....

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BillyG
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August 25, 2017 - 12:51 am
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Still trying to translate the following into English... ics.JPGImage Enlarger- have a bit of fiddling (pizza / piece-of fiddle), a slow couple of glasses of wine followed by cake and beer

 

That's the best I can do ( and it was close to what happened.... how did you know? ROFL )

Cheers @TerryT !    Thank you !    

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oh happy birthday! you continue to be an inspiration on the fiddle!!! :D It sounds like you had a wonderfully relaxing day and I'm so happy you did! congrats and toasts to many more to come.yaaaa_gif

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Happy Birthday, sir!

Mark

Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.

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BillyG
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August 25, 2017 - 3:04 am
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Thank you folks @RockingLR33 and @Mark ! thumbs-up

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Happy birthday!!!!!!

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August 25, 2017 - 1:34 pm
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Thank you @Fran    Hope all goes well with you there !   :)

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@BillyG Hey, I seem to be a tad belated here but since you were the first to welcome me to the forum, I would be remiss if I failed to wish you a very wonderful Birthday! 

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"Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one".- Albert Einstein 

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BillyG
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August 27, 2017 - 10:24 am
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@Cearbhael - belated or not, all good wishes warmly accepted !  Thank you !

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