Sorry to hear you had such an uneventful birthday yesterday, Raptor. I hope your family are now feeling thoroughly ashamed and are making up for it today !

On the insistent invitation of a comparatively new-found 'friend', I travelled hundreds of miles across the country to celebrate a big milestone birthday at a festival, where I would not know anyone else.
It soon became clear that said 'friend' had decided he was going to ignore me and leave me to my own devices, not even introducing me to people he was talking to. I felt like something the cat had brought in ! As the day went on, I gave up trying to find him in the various festival places around the town and spent my big birthday evening in a pub session with some lovely people....but I didn't dare tell them it was my birthday and what had happened, because I knew I would have burst into tears. I did have a little cry in my tent though...

Not the birthday celebration I had hoped for, but it was a good festival and I made the most of it...and learned all I needed to know.