My 18th birthday was the day before a Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award expedition, so most of the day was spent in driving to the Peak District. My folks gave us a bottle of Asti though, so we enjoyed ourselves sitting in a field drinking cheap fizz out of plastic beakers! :-) (The walk was atrocious though - it snowed two days running, and we got lost on Kinder Scout on the second day which wasn't fun.)

Mind you, as rotten birthdays go, April 1st is pretty damn bad.

Graham.