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Happy Birthday! Have a fabulous day.
Wishing you a truly memorable birthday, filled with interesting and enjoyable stuff.
Mere stripling! Have an excellent day.
Happy Birthday DG.. Wishing you an excellent day and a fantastic year.. Thank you for such an excellent blog
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday DG! Have a great day, I'm looking forward to reading about it tomorrow.
Wishing you a very special 50th Birthday DG
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday d.g. Have a great day.
Happy birthday.
Glad our trip on the Eye was an appropriate warm up for the big day treat.
First comment was at 12:08am. Posting time of this blogpost was 06:04.
(Thinks hard.)
Many happy returns DG, have a wild one mate.
Sto Lat - enjoy your flight
Happy Birthday! Have fun!
I hope you have a most enjoyable birthday expedition. Many Happy Returns!
Happy Birthday DG!
Have a very Happy Birthday, whatever you do.
Have a fab birthday! Say Hello to all of London for us!
Happy 50th Birthday DG.

On the timing of the post could this be the time of his birth 50 years ago?
Happy birthday, hope it stays clear for you and I'm looking forward to reading about it soon. Best wishes for your dad too.
Happy birthday, and all the best in your new decade!
It certainly feels like less than 10 years ago when I was reading the post for your 40th. Tempus fugit. Happy Birthday DG!
Happy half century!

Enjoy your day.
Many happy returns DG.
Happy Birthday DG!
Happy Birthday!

I seem to notice and reflect on the passing of time when you do your birthday post more than the passing of my own birthdays.
Natal Anniversary Felicitations! May the day bring you 50 shades of full colour.
Happy Birthday DG , wishing you a fabulous time celebrating your special day.
dont forget to get the front seat
Half century wave from the Thames at Reading...
Happy birthday, DG.
Many Happy Returns, DG.

I wish you a very nice day indeed.
happy birthday DG
It's all been said already !
Happy Birthday DG !
Happy Big Five Ohh! DG! Enjoy the first day of your fifty-first year😊😊
Happy birthday.
Welcome to your second half-century, or your sixth decade!
Where on the Thames should we be? Happy Birthday.
Love the blog. Enjoy your special day - cant wait to see what you did
Happy Golden Jubilee DG!
Here's to the next fifty. Well done!
Happy Birthday DG - hope you have a great day! Am especially looking forward to reading about your rail trip later in the week and hope it will be as exciting as my birthday treat to myself last week - my first trip in a SouthEastern Javelin train last week - St Pancras to Ashford return - what a train - 140mph across the river Medway. Way to go!
Happy Birthday DG
happy birthday DG
Have a fantastic birthday DG, and enjoy your ride in the sky!
Have a great 50th birthday.

If we have to look up, you must be in a plane/balloon!?

Whatever you're doing, enjoy!
As always, we look forward to the report.
Happy Birthday DG! Have a great day.
Birthday greetings and a little, well known ditty:

Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
Happy Happy Birthday. Have a great day/ week.
Have fun!
Have a well deserved birthday DG, I don't know how you keep up all the interesting posts. Take a day/week off! Not too long though, we'll all have withdrawal symptoms.

Thirty till fifty, then spend to the end.
The comments have to stop when we reach 50!

HB, DG.
Happy Birthday! Long time reader - never commenter. Thought today would be an appropriate time to start! Have a great day!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday DG. Enjoy your day, I am one that is looking forward to a full report.
Happy Birthday!
Wishing you many more.
Joining all of the others to wish you a happy birthday. Keep up the good work for decades to come!
Happy Happy!
Happy Birthday DG from Germany!
Happy birthday dg! Will look upwards in Leigh-on-Sea at 12, though suspect you may not get down that far.
Many happy returns, DG - have a great day
Happy Birthday DG. Hope you enjoy the view from up there!
Happy Birthday. Have a great day!
Happy Birthday, many more to come! Kind of interval...Have a bright day!
Happy Big Birthday Mr Geezer.
Happy Birthday DG!
Happy Birthday Geezer. Hope you have a great day. xx
Happy birthday, DG, hope you have a great time!
Happy Birthday DG
Chris xx
Happy 50th DG, seems not that long ago we were celebrating your 40th! Will be keeping a eye out, my desk has the perfect view for Thames-side flights.
Happy Birthday, DG!
Happy birthday DG! Hope you have a fantastic time!
Have a geat day and I look forward to reading abut it soon.
HB DG. Have a great day and enjoy the helicopter ride. I'm a mere 9 weeks ahead of you in reaching the 50 year birthday.
Wishing you a very happy birthday, DG.
Happy 50th birthday.
Or maybe don't wave today, wave tomorrow...
Happy happy birthday Big Man!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to the London institution that is DG!
Happy Birthday DG! Have a great time.

Looking forward to reading about it tomorrow!
Happy delayed gratification, then!
Happy Birthday DG! Have a lovely day and keep on blogging.
Happy birthday
So I was premature or mistaken to hang around platform 1 at Euston about 2030 last night then.......(just in case......)
Happy birthday from a long time lurker from Australia!
Seems as if the dreaded low cloud base has spoilt the celebrations? Better forecast for tomorrow👍
Hmmm. John S suggests a plane or balloon but there is, of course, *another* method of flight across the Thames
Maybe, given it's a special occasion, they might even be able to come up with some music and celebration chocolates??? :)
The River Thames is more than 200 miles long - where did we need to be to wave - or are you flying its entire length?

Many happy returns
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday DG!
Whatever it is, and whenever you do it - have a lovely time, and many happy returns of the day!!

My brother becomes a Nifty Fifty in 3 weeks time, and I'm still at a loss as to what to get him, so awaiting your post with bated breath!
Happy Birthday DG!
Happy Birthday Mr DG, I hope it is suitably spectacular despite the weather.

And as ever, thank you for your blog - it continues to be a shining light of interesting writing in sea of corporate-sponsored dross.
Happy Birthday, DG *Waves upwards*
It will be a very Happy Birthday if the Arsenal win tonight!
Hapy Birthday DG - hope you're having a splendid day
Happy birthday. Hope the weather held out long enough for your flight on the Dangleway! (It was the dangleway, wasn't it?)
Happy birthday
That bus's D-registration reveals it will be marking its own 50th birthday next year.
Happy birthday and welcome to life after 49. Now it gets better.
Wishing you a very happy birthday DG.
Many happy returns DG.
Happy Birthday DG!
Hope that you get cleared for take off tomorrow.
Many happy returns of the day and thank you for all the fascinating posts. Looking forward to many more as you enter the second half of your life!
Happy 50th! But be aware it all downhill from now on...well so I was told
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y !!!
And to think...you (only) just older than that bus! Happy Birthday DG
Many happy returns of the day, DG!
Happy Birthday DG!
Was there a sigh of relief that you made it? Did you pause for a minute extra looking in the mirror? What advice would you pass on to a 25 year old DG? Hope the day is all that you wished it to be.
Happy Birthday, and thanks for all the excellent posts.
Happy birthday DG, and thanks for all the blogs I've read and enjoyed since I first found your website over ten years ago.

If you saw a chap on a green and white Brompton weaving in and out of the traffic around Parliament Square... that was me.
Happy birthday DG!
Very many happy returns!
Really enjoy the blog, the first thing I visit each morning.
Happy Birthday and thanks for such uniquely interesting reading!
Many many Happies DG

My first proper read of the day every day.

Wishing you every happiness
Happy Birthday DG!
Happy 50th birthday dg!
DG,

I guess whatever you were planning on the Thames has already occurred.

Hope that it was a good day and you are now enjoying some appropriate refreshments.

Could you ask 'Best mate' to write a blog on your special day-your chance to take center stage rather than London. Wishing you all the best
Happy birthday! Hope you're having a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday diamond (or should that be golden) geezer and thanks for a terrific blog that really resonates with me worringly often. I hit 50 last Summer and, despite being spooked by the prospect beforehand, I have come through the other side !

Best wishes, DavidC
Many happy returns to you, old top, and may your shadow never grow less.
All the best to you DG!
Huge happy birthday, Mr Diamond, you are truly the best blogger in the cyclosphere... strange this, because I don't think you ride a bike or especially approve of them either.

I love the pace and the quirky stuff you put on your blog. It is almost like reading "country life" column in the newspaper without the singing birds and with a lot more oomph.

Keep it up Geezer, you are excellent!!!
Hope it was a brilliant day - hapy 50th DG. Can't wait for the de-brief... no rush though ;-)
Keep it up DG!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday DG!
Many Happy Returns DG!
Happier birthday. Thanks for the articles, keep them coming
So the two cormorants I saw flying over Westminster Bridge just after 12 today weren't you and Best Mate after all then?
Happy Birthday!
135 comments (so far)...is that a comment record?
Happy Birthday (belated or not?) from yet another very long time yet commented reader.
Belatedly wishing you a very happy birthday too!
A Very happy birthday to you, DG(couldn't read your post on the day due to odd work hours).
A belated happy birthday.
A super belated happy birthday!










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