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\ud83d\udcf7 Had a lovely meal out for my mum\u2019s 70th birthday last night, along with my dad and my brothers. I had to compare it to a photo taken on our family holiday almost exactly 30 years before. My two boys are now exactly the same ages that my brothers and I were in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Mum\u2019s 70th, September 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Holiday dinner, Bulgaria, August 1994<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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My two boys are now exactly the same ages that my brothers and I were in 1994.<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10297,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/08\/07\/weeknotes-232-70th\/","url_meta":{"origin":11148,"position":0},"title":"Weeknotes #232 \u2014 70th","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"7 August 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"My lovely dad (who I know reads these weeknotes \u2014 hello dad \ud83d\udc4b) turned 70 this week. 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