Old friends and arm wrestling-from Lindy

Ben’s birthday has become a time to meet up with old friends who we don’t see much anymore.

This was said to me on more than one occasion a month ago when we celebrated his birthday.

It was a time of good friends and lots of laughter, good wine, plenty of food and a chance at winning the third annual Ben Mulherin-inspired, hands-free, Allen’s snake- tying competition (I think we will have to award prizes next year as some people are becoming quite serious about it!)

I am also wondering if his birthday formalities might extend to an arm wrestling competition. I’ll include this old memory from Dave to explain why:

I remember in the arm wrestle competitions at Theos he’d always win, so last year (January 2008) he retired and decided not to compete because it looked bad that a team member would win every year...  haha!