Dear Joanna,
You're an international treasure and you deserve a wonderful birthday.
Loads of love from Paris.
Esther Crespin

Happy Birthday Joanna!
Thank you for bringing so much laughter and joy into my life.
Hope you have a great day, you deserve it!

Sammy. x x x



(Hope thats OK. Great idea guys thanks!!!)

Wow this has really worked out great darlings. So many sweet wishes. And a few on the Jennifer forum as well
This is gonna be one hell of a great birthday card. I still have to think about what I'm gonna write down. I just don't know what to write, because I'm afraid of sounding obsessed and fangirlie.
But now I've got an extra week to figure it out, since poor Maartje has the flu and can't come over tomorrow

I hope this is not too late ... oh well ... here we go:

Dear Ms Lumley,

Allan K. Chalmers once said "The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
May your life be full of happiness!

Enjoy your birthday - and every other day of your life!

~Cira~
-Germany-

Don't worry darling, you're not too late. Poor Maartje has the flu, so we're not buying the card until next week.
Your message is lovely

All your messages are so lovely and touching.. I know, I know, I keep saying this, but I'm so glad we have such devoted members here.

Philippa wrote:I just don't know what to write, because I'm afraid of sounding obsessed and fangirlie.

Awh, darling, just tell her how you feel. You're not a crazy I know that, you just love her for all the things she did, and I'm sure she'll appreciate it if you tell her so.

I know what I'm gonna write to her I think. It's only two sentences, but it sums it up for me. I'm not sure yet, but it's a good start.

Well, I hope Maarjte is feeling much better and you're on track for buying Lovely Lumley's card this weekend???

Oh yes, the card will be bought this Saturday
Can't wait!

I am better now, thank you. So yes, it's gonna be this Saturday! *does little dance*

"Hey Joanna, you old stick. Cudos to you for being so effing brilliant. I adore and admire your acting skills, but also your compassion and interest for all things important in this world. You should know that you are incredibly inspiring. And you should take this as a big compliment, as I generally only look up to fabulous, wicked, and awfully cool bitches. So, cheers thanks a lot, sweetie, for being a terrific role model. Happy Birthday, sweetheart! Now, stand on the bloody bin bag!! Lots of love and other naughty things! xx Tilda from ABBA-land"

Tilda.... Fabulous, haha!

Only a couple of hours to go sweeties - I'll leave tomorrow at 9.00, so if you want to add or change anything, be quick.

I would really want to say:

You are truly a great inspiration, may you have a very happy birthday!

Gwendoline from Canada xx

(((don't forget the kisses!! pleasee!)) << --- don't write this loll of course!

Tilda - VERY amusing!!

re the card: hope you'll take a couple of photos of it all filled in, so we can have a look what it's like. And let me say again - what a GREAT idea, girls!! x

YEEESSSSS IT IS DONE!!!
It was so hard finding a card that was big enough, but finally we got one

The card


The inside. As you can see, we couldn't have fitted another message on it


And the proof that we really send it

GREAT!!

I can't actually recognise my message from the photo but I'm sure it's there!

I'm sure Jo will be delighted to receive it! x

Your message is somewhere at the bottom on the right side I believe.
We went to so many different shops, and this was the only big card with happy birthday written on it in English. All the other cards we saw were in Dutch
I just really hope she likes it *crosses fingers*

Waw, I love this card, well done guys and thanks for being our messengers

Haha yeah, it was about the only birthday cart we could find that was quite big enough. (I say big, it was written on by capacity...) We spent about one and a half hour to write everything down, so I hope she's gonna appreciate it!

Omg....that card rocks you guys. and i see my name on it....yey

FAB card angels !
Wouldn't be great to see Jo's reaction to it ?
THX again for making this happen ...

Haha, yeah, we've been wondering about that too... The enveloppe is pretty huge, so I think she's gonna be quite suprised when she gets it.

Can't spot mine, either, but I'm guessing it's there.

It's a cute card--I think she'll like it.

I can spot you Timeless. Your message is on the right page, the 2nd one under 'Happy Birthday'. Written in black ink

Philippa wrote:I can spot you Timeless. Your message is on the right page, the 2nd one under 'Happy Birthday'. Written in black ink

I must be blind. It's right there. Duhee! Thanks for pointing that out (I just finished my last final, so I'm not too swift at the moment).

Something I wrote is getting to Joanna! Whee!

^Amazing isn't it? Even though it's in my ugly handwriting