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A trip down memory lane
Country Life UK
|March 05, 2025
IN contemplating the imminent approach of a rather large and unwanted birthday, I keep reminding myself of the time when birthdays were exciting: those landmark moments of becoming a teenager or an adult, of being allowed to drive, to vote or to buy a drink in a pub.
Or, further back still, of turning 10; ‘double figs’ as my motherin-law called it.
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