I’m sitting down by Killhope Burn wishing I could have a real good birthday catchup with Dave, so I wrote a few bits down that I think we would’ve talked about a lot recently.

“Alright Arkid, Happy Birthday, Wembley again eh, who would have thought it when we celebrated that Yaya goal for your 40th as the first thing either of us had witnessed is win. What the actual fuck, that we are even slightly disappointed not to be still going for a double treble. I watched the last part of the Netflix doc last night and shed a tear, what a fucking season that was.

Reckon there’s gonna be a new Star Wars announcement on the 4th? Maybe first episode of something new? Mike changed the Disney+ password the other day so you might need to log back in to my account, just add an ! to the end.

I’m loving seeing all our babies living their lives as full on grown ups, 2 weddings in the space of a year has been remarkable. We felt your presence at them both and soppy tears were shed but you’d have had a ball and joined the dancing and singing for sure, reckon Gill and Caroline would be getting on great and they’d have kicked our backsides enough to make sure we got together more often.

Speaking of Caroline, I can’t properly explain to anyone how much I love that woman but I reckon you would understand. Hey, if you hadn’t stopped the clock you’d be 53 today which means I have a “girlfriend” 2 years younger than my little brother, that would’ve caused a stir at Crommy!

Anyway, got to go, phone is ringing and work still has to be done, could’ve done with someone to sort my garden out but………

Happy Birthday x