Happy Birthday Valery. Great to be in touch with you and Alan again here's to many more lunches together. Love and best wishes x Kerr and Janice

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1 Hi Val, Happy Birthday - an original start! Given that we can't include our names in this missive I suppose we have to give you a clue. How about bouncing off you guys from Gatwick? Try that! Chris & Elaine Happy Birthday Valery. Great to be in touch with you and Alan again here's to many more lunches together. Love and best wishes x Kerr and Janice Happy birthday to Grandma. I like your earrings and magnets. I like eating ice cream, playing in the bedroom and I love your dolls house and rabbits best. You are kind and happy with a big smile. Mavie I like singing happy birthday with your candles and I like the upstairs cars in the red case and the dinosaur magnets. I like coming to see you and running round the garden. I like Grandma. Woody I like singing happy birthday to Grandma. I love you reading to me and watching Cbeebies and your cars, earrings, dolls house, bunnies, penguin, Barry lemon and making perfume out of rose petals. Ettia Dear Ma, Happy 70th. Always remember that however old you are, you will never be one of those "little old ladies"!! x Harriette The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves".. I'm always surprised whenever I've seen you, or pics of you, how gorgeous you are Aunt Val! Has always reminded me that a gal can be pretty even with a strong resemblance to my Dad! Happy birthday! Ashley "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She s ninety-seven now, and we don t know where the hell she is". ~Ellen DeGeneres. I laugh when I remember wetting myself in the spare bedroom because of the dogs on the landing. Happy birthday Grandma. Little Will

2 Happy birthday Grandma. Ollie Dear Val, Congratulations on entering your 7th Decade! It won't be as bad as you think! If it wasn't for you I would be fatter and less fit! Thanks for time spent sharing our family troubles! Liz Haynes "The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years". ~Edward J. Stieglitz. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch. "The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." - T. S. Eliot. "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old". - Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.. I don't think there's any woman - actually, any person - in this world I admire and look up to more than you. I feel very lucky to have you as my sister...and my friend. (Sorry...no punchline). Neil Blincow Thanks for being my ma, and thanks for giving Tilly her very special chocolate bar and orange juice every day :-) Sophie happy birthday Grandma,and i'm fine on the bus since you've been asking ;) felix Happy Birthday!! Have a great day, I'll be thinking of you!! Doesn't matter what age we are--we will always be 17 in our heads!! One of these days we will catch up! Lots of love and best wishes. xxx Ann McNulty

3 Hi Val, Congratulations on joining the seventies club. I hope you can devour each day with relish! With many happy memories of our early teaching days at Francis Baily and your lovely friendship. Yvonne Glass nee Sissons Happy Birthday Isn't it good to be able to celebrate without worrying about work!! Mind you those days in the huts were good fun as well as hard work. Gill Hooper Happy Birthday Val. My fondest memory is my first visit to your home seeing those marigolds sitting on the kitchen window on their stand. It's left a most profound and lasting impression. Love Sam Sam Kirwan Well Val, my fondest memories are those of the Great Train Journey we took with you. Your expression when you saw the conditions and facilities. You made it, and now we can laugh. gabrielle smith Knowing one of your children so well makes me see what an amazing job you have done as a mother. Happy Birthday Valery x Greg Knight Enjoy this extra special day but take time to reflect on, and be proud of,all that you have achieved. Happy memories of teaching together! Love and best wishes for your good health and happiness Kath and Roger Well, it looks like hitch hiking around Ireland will probably be off the cards now..maybe just as well! This 70 thing isn't too bad so do have a lovely day and gallop into our eighth decade!! Anne Cormie (Vanston) In 1963 we arrived at Lincoln excitedly anticipating 3 years. Valery was the confident one. Her subject was Divinity - she said she was an atheist but the stories were good! I'm glad we kept in touch Janet York Hi Val,I am pleased that we have kept in touch for all these years and enjoy meeting up with the Arunside gang from time to time. We had a lot of fun and the memories are happy ones. Happy Birthday Honor Locke Happy Birthday Val. its only a number-just think!! you could still be living next door to me (that would be worse). Sharon Hill

4 Happy birthday! Hope you have a good day! Dom Dear Valery ~ 30 years of friendship ~ what can I say? Elegant, kind and funny! All your family are so lucky to have you. A very happy birthday with love from Clare Clare Barrett Hi Val - have a great birthday! I have good memories of working with you and also of meeting up for coffee over quite a few years now. I hope we will continue to do so. With much love, Jan Janice Fordham Val you don't look any older than 50 years ago at Bishop Grot! Those were the days, didn't we have fun, in the swinging sixties. Have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY with family and friends, enjoy, big hugs xx Celia Lewis (Gardner) Happy birthday Grandma From Tilly x Tilly "Oh, to be 70 again." -Georges Clemenceau on seeing a pretty girl on his 80th birthday." It's all about perspective. Happy 70th birthday. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x. "Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at 70." - Dorothy Thompson. You're the latter. Of course! x. Happy 70th Ma. I'm glad we see you so regularly- thanks for being lovely to my three. You're impressive, fit and attractive for any age. I'm hoping i've inherited your genes! Thanks for being my Mum Hannah Dear Auntie Valery, Happy Birthday. I love you. I broke my arm. Thank you for letting me play with your Legos. Love, Max. Max Blincow Dear Val, Happy birthday. Thank you for having us in summer. You look so beautiful as always, 70' is new 50'. with lots of love Cherry

5 Happy 70th Val! Have a great day Simon Blincow Happy birthday, thanks for all your help with the house, and for producing the eighth wonder of the world! James x James Aunt Val, of my entire summer travelling Europe, my time with you and our family was by far my favorite. I think of you often when sitting in my conservatory. I can't wait to see you again. <3 Austen Blincow Three score years and ten, well done, it will be my turn soon! So lots of love from big brother Peter Blincow Have a wonderful day - many congratulations on turning 70. See you soon. Love Steph Steve & Eleanor Karma chameleon; Boy George, I'm still standing; Elton John, anything by Queen, "keep your eyes peeled, please ducky darling, home again jiggedy jig," and bread sauce. All make me think of you Mum x Hannah "It s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it". ~From the television show The Golden Girls. The first 40 years of life give text, the next 30 furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties Arthur Schopenhauer Congrats. Brill that we are still in touch since '66! See you soon. Love Bron. X Bronwen Wright Happy birthday Ma! Thanks for being my Mum and for always letting me do my own thing. Love you! Big Will

6 Dear Val, I am so happy to have met Will and be married to him but also to be part of your family. You have all been so lovely and kind and I am blessed to know you. Happy Birthday! Amy Valery. Happy Birthday & all my Love alan alan thomas