Welcome to the Poets Pub. I’m Kim from Writing in North Norfolk, your host for this week’s Haibun Monday. Next Monday, it’s my birthday, and I have two of my favourite birthday songs to share. The first is by The Beatles:

I used to look forward to birthdays; I loved receiving birthday cards, which I collected in a scrapbook. I must have had family birthday celebrations when I was very small, because I have a photograph of me as a one-year-old with a birthday cake.

But I don’t remember ever having a birthday party to which my friends were invited, although sometimes I was invited to other children’s. When I was a teenager, I enjoyed going out for a meal with friends on my birthday. I went to other people’s birthday parties, but never had one of my one, not even a 21st.

You’ll find out about the best birthday I ever had in my haibun, and I’ll be off the radar next week as I’m spending my birthday with my daughter and grandson.  And, of course, it was the pub’s ninth birthday this year!

The second birthday song is by Altered Images:

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