Celebrating the wrong birthday

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | 0 Comments


One of Britain's oldest women has been celebrating her birthday on the wrong day - for more than a century.
Lena Thouless, 106, a great-grandmother, from Bowthorpe, Norwich, has spent all her life celebrating her birthday on 23 November.
Detective work by her daughter, Lena Brooks, discovered she should have been blowing out the candles the day before, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Mrs Brooks, 55, also of Bowthorpe, was stunned to discover purely by chance that the extraordinary centenarian was actually born on 22 November. She found her mother's birthday certificate and is baffled why the family has always marked the occasion a day late.


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