The Bouzy Rouge Occasion

We were all thrilled to help celebrate Dave Simpson's 60th birthday - or his big LX day in Roman Numerals.  Although the 'big day' had occurred some weeks ago, it was lovely to get together for an evening of good friends, good food and good wine at the Bouzy Rouge in Richmond.
Seeing we were 'instructed' not to bring presents, this blog is to celebrate Dave Simpson’s 60^th birthday.

Turning 60 is considered an important event in many cultures.  For example, in China someone who arrived at 60 years completed a full life cycle starts celebrating a new life.  

And some wise people have made many astute insights about this coming of age – such as:

• Oscar Wilde - To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
• George Carlin - I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
• Maurice Chevalier - old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
• Bernard Baruch - to me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
• William Butler Yeats - from our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.
• Joan Rivers - looking fifty is great… if you're sixty.
• Mark Twain - when I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
• Pablo Picasso - one starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
• Tom Stoppard - age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Whatever the sentiment – Happy Birthday Dave!!