Moments from Suburbia: 14 Today

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

14 Today

Happy Birthday Tall Girl, I can't believe you are so grown up.

You have grown into a beautiful woman before my eyes, in just a blink so it seems.

You are much loved.

13 comments:

Lindsay said...: Happy Birth Tall Girl and hope your knee is better.; 9 November 2010 at 08:06
Steve said...: Many happy returns!; 9 November 2010 at 10:28
BS5 Blogger said...: Your baby Giraffe is so tall and confident and lovely now!; 9 November 2010 at 13:06
Rob-bear said...: Happy Birthday, Tall Girl (maybe getting taller than mom?).

I hope you have a wonderful year, and that your knee heals up, promptly.; 9 November 2010 at 15:14
Akelamalu said...: Happy Birthday Tall Girl and many happy returns. x; 9 November 2010 at 16:45
Carol said...: Awww, happy birthday Tall Girl. Hope you have a fantastic day!

C x; 10 November 2010 at 13:05
Rose said...: Happy Birthday, Tall Girl! Hope you are your knee heals soon, and you can throw away those crutches.; 10 November 2010 at 13:19
Wanderlust Scarlett said...: Happiest of birthdays to her!! They grow up and fly away so fast.

Hope it was a lovely day!

Scarlett & Viaggiatore; 10 November 2010 at 21:49
Anonymous said...: Wow, I remember when she was just 12. I am sure she is getting more beautiful by the day.; 11 November 2010 at 10:54
Barbara said...: Two days late but happy belated birthday to Tall Girl. I remember feeling so grown up at 14.; 11 November 2010 at 19:58
Maggie May said...: Yes, Happy Birthday fourteen year old (a little belatedly.)
She is the same age as my oldest grandson....... well just a little younger!

Maggie X

Nuts in May; 11 November 2010 at 20:49
Furtheron said...: Happy birthday...

I've only a few more days of a 14 year old daughter to go... :-); 12 November 2010 at 10:27
Liz Hinds said...: Belated happy birthday to Tall Girl! xx; 13 November 2010 at 19:14

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The word is derived from the Old French "subb urbe" and ultimately from the Latin "suburbium", formed from "sub", meaning "under", and "urbs", meaning "city", therefore suburbis would mean under the city. Important people tended to live on hills near centers of commercial and political activity, while the lower classes often lived in marginal areas. "Under" in later usage sometimes referred variously to lesser wealth, political power, population, or population density. The first recorded usage, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, comes from Wycliffe in 1380, where the form "subarbis" is used

Consigned to the wheelie bin at the end of the drive?

Half the population lives in suburbia but fewer like to admit it.
Car washing on a Sunday in front of a semi-detached mock Tudor home complete with twitching net curtains is the life it conveys, to repeated ridicule.
The image of a cultural wasteland between the vibrant, edgy inner city and the rural idyll was reinforced by 1970s comedies such as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and The Good Life, and dramas like Abigail's Party.
But does this prejudice have any basis today or should it be consigned to the wheelie bin at the end of the drive?
By Tom Geoghegan BBC News Magazine

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