{"id":595,"date":"2012-06-04T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=595"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:41:03","slug":"happy-birthday-rodney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/06\/04\/happy-birthday-rodney\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Rodney….."},"content":{"rendered":"

Our beloved Roddles turns 60 today and thousands around the World have turned out to help him celebrate this momentous occasion…<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to find a photo of Roddles without the blonde sheila beside him<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There were fireworks to open the proceedings…<\/p>\n

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Fireworks signal the start of the celebrations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The rain didn’t keep the crowds away, they all wanted to be there to wish him a happy 60th birthday.<\/p>\n

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People standing on their chairs to get a glimpse of Rodney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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…and you couldn’t keep Rodney’s old girl friends away from this event either, they weren’t going to miss this for anything. They obviously all have very fond memories of Rodney and these girls said that he’d spoilt them for other men.<\/p>\n

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These old girl friends didn’t care about the rain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We’ll always love you Rodney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It was only fitting that the River Thames be the back drop so that Rodney’s fellow merchant sailors from around the World could join in the festivities.<\/p>\n

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Old mates lined up to send their regards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Italian representatives at the celebration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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They all came to be part of the fun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Many celebrities took time out of their busy schedule to help celebrate Rodney’s special day.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Boris (big Rodney fan) getting in on the action with Princess Eugenie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Pippa has always had a soft spot for Rodney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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…and finally Rodney acknowledged all his well wishers by wearing his special birthday fancy dress outfit while waving the Union Jack. No wonder we all love him so much.<\/p>\n

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Rodney acknowledging the crowds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What a day it was, certainly one that will be remembered. In fact in years to come you’ll be able to recall where you were on the day that Rodney turned 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our beloved Roddles turns 60 today and thousands around the World have turned out to help him celebrate this momentous occasion…   There were fireworks to open the proceedings…   The rain didn’t keep the crowds away, they all wanted to be there to wish him a happy 60th birthday.   …and you couldn’t keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}