The words of the Nat King Cole song from the early fifties filled my head before I went to sleep last night:

Unforgettable, that’s what you are,

Unforgettable, tho’ near or far….

And those same words were still wafting around in my head when I awoke this morning. Why? Well, you see, something pretty unforgivable happened on Tuesday, and I might add that it has happened before… Both Chris and I forgot the birthday of our number one daughter! We didn’t realise until number three daughter gently reminded us yesterday. Why didn’t she remind us the previous day? I asked that too. She told me that she thought we might be offended that she could possibly imagine that we might forget (Bless her).

Now I come to think about it, I did have a nagging little worry that I had forgotten something; even so, I didn’t check the date, nor did I tax my memory banks too greatly.

Oh dear. These days, since I started trying to forget my own birthday, I seem to be losing track of the birthdays of others too. It happens so frequently that it has become a little joke between my young nieces and nephews and me – they pretend to tell me off with wagging fingers and stern faces that crack into smiles – but they know I will find something to appease them.

If you have read my book, “The Innocent Flirt Down Under”, you might recall that in the last chapter I revealed another lapse on the occasion of Chris’s birthday; and when I asked why he hadn’t told me earlier, he replied, “I thought you might have known, considering that you’re my wife.” But don’t worry, he said it with a sunny smile (after all, we were about to have an unforgettable Australian pie experience at Cunungra!).

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