Happy birthday! And gin and ginger beer will be available next week at Whitby if the temperature is right.

(Recipe for gin and ginger beer. Buy some gin. Buy some ginger beer (proper ginger beer like Fentimen's or maybe Schweppe's). Mix the two together, about 50:50). Put it in one of those stainless steel flasks and freeze it for two or three days). Now you have the most refreshing hot weather drink available. Pity we can only use it for about six days in the year in this country.)