Just having finished my first Patrick O'Brian.... (and still sort of in that mode ;)...
[Makes a leg] Ah, my dear Mr Fowler, how so very good of you to have had a birthday on such a momentous occasion (that being pretty much the start of Winter in Australia ;). Many happy returns, Sir.
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No carbon bike... good gosh, but it very nearly sounded like a tragedy, like having out grown ones' (ice ... always have to add "ice" in oz - otherwise someone assumes you mean [field] ) hockey skates... or worse, live nowhere near an ice rink :whis:
Tragedies are so relative ;)