Author Topic: Happy 92nd, Lionel Blair!  (Read 475 times)

Steve H

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Happy 92nd, Lionel Blair!
« on: December 13, 2020, 08:48:29 AM »
92 yesterday. He had trouble blowing out that many candles on his cake, but luckily Sven, from ISIHAC, popped round and gave him a blow. Then they had party games: in "charades", Lionel triumphantly pulled off "Twelve Angry Men".
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Re: Happy 92nd, Lionel Blair!
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2020, 01:14:06 PM »
What a dancer he was too. Maybe still is.
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