It’s is my birthday

I thought I’d look up what was happening all those years ago, and give you, dear reader, a chance to guess my age. I’ve have lived for 28,855 days. First, it was a Monday and the temperature outside was 54°F with showers after heavy rain the previous day. Mick Box guitarist member of the heavy metal band Uriah Heep was born not far from me in Whipps Cross Hospital, Walthamstow on the same day. Fitzrovia, where I entered this world, curiously now has an Indian restaurant on Charlotte Street named after the year of my birth. Before the Second World War Fitzrovia had a highly visible German community and Charlotte Street was nicknamed Charlottenstrasse. Greeks and Italians came to Fitzrovia post-war about the time I arrived. A post-war shortage of commercial space in central London prompted the re-zoning of Fitzrovia as a light industrial area and some fine Georgian properties including British artist John Constable’s house was knocked down and replaced by an office block. Fitzrovia had…