To ask what you did for your 30th birthday?

Got divorced. My husband left a few days after the party that I’d organised myself. He gave me some corn holders and a gift set from Bodyshop on Waterloo station. I’ve never looked back!

Nothing. It was during one of the lockdowns.

Nowt I was in hospital attached to a drip for HG.

Nothing exciting, DS was 1. We may have had a meal, I honestly can’t remember, definitely didn’t have a night away or anything fancy but that was fine with me.

Had my daughter on the Monday and my 30th was on the Friday and the midwife forbade me from even pushing the pram to the end of the road but this was 46 years ago. I expect things have changed since.

Nobody really celebrated turning 30 as a big birthday when I was that age, obviously they celebrated their birthday but I think its only fairly recently that its been a thing to see it as one of the 'big' birthday celebrations. Not that I think it is a bad thing.
Lots of things now weren't a thing when I was younger, such as Prom, baby showers, gender reveal, Christmas eve boxes etc

Went to novikov mayfair not excited as I been there before but stayed in a hotel opposite beautiful room, breakfast ect

a week in Thailand or even Spain would have been better though!

My son was almost one, so he, his dad & I went to a hotel for the night in a pretty village & had a nice meal & spent the next day by a river with a picnic.

It was a working day during the week, so I settled down with a special bottle of wine. Then I took an unexpected call from the lovely German I'd met on a school exchange when I was 17 many years before and always loved. We got married 18 months later.

Just celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary.

Absolutely no idea now, about the specific day.

At that time though I was living with my first husband (separated but fairly amicably, no kids) so was in process of selling house and prepping to move to the other side of the country (where I still live now many years later with second husband) so my 30th was just background noise.

Boris Johnson shut the whole country down on my 30th birthday 🤣🤣.

Went to Go Ape and then for dinner with a bunch of friends, all pre-kids although I think one was pregnant so joined us for the meal.

I watched Shakespeare in Love at the cinema, I was expecting my third baby.

Went out for dinner. I was pregnant with ds2 but it was touch and go for awhile (“threatened miscarriage”) so I was filled with anxiety, I barely remember that birthday at all!!

I had twins. I’d cried on my 29th birthday because I’d always wanted children before I was 30. I got my wish and my twins were 3 months old (born a month early) I think we had friends around for a chilled out party on my actual birthday.

For my 30th I threw a big party in a local social club then brought most of the party back to my house until 6am 😳 For my 40th I went clubbing in Ibiza with my husband and 10 of our mutual friends. For my 50th my husband and I went on a cruise. I’m only 51 so not thought of my 60th yet lol

DS1 was 7 days old! I remember crying into my birthday curry 😆 Same DS is now almost 18 and have spent the day at a Uni open day with him. Time flies

Had just had my first child (few weeks old) , so we went to the pub for tea!

My husband took me away for a spa weekend but I got flu (typical my birthday is jinxed). So he got me a special 35th birthday present too, a trip to Iceland, but not on my birthday.
For his i took him to Dublin for the weekend.

For my 40th we were supposed to go to Paris but COVID! Told you my birthday was jinxed. I took him to Port Lympne.

Was on holiday with exH and 2 other couples in Clearwater Florida and we went to Orlando for a couple of nights. It was fun - Orlando old town is quite nice and it was my first visit to a quality steak house

European break. I'm one of these people with an annoying early January birthday. Everybody is skint or on a diet. So instead DH and I went away.

My sons dad ( ex now but was a partner of 8 years at the time) liked to ruin every special occassion and went on one of his disapearing acts right before my 30th... by my birthday he had been missing 10 days phone still off no clue where he was i spent the day stressed and misreble!

We went to see Adam Hills the night before my birthday and then the day of we had a small house party with about 10 friends, pretty low key. One friend cried all night, another had been in a car accident the night before and was in absolute agony and one of our friends who lived miles and miles away drove down to share the lovely news that his wife was expecting! A very dramatic night all round!! A couple of weeks later we headed off on our belated honeymoon to NYC. Turned 40 this year and had a party in the local pub, went to Morocco with friends and we are off on a trip round Asia in the summer!

DP took me to Ibiza for a week. Up until then I was adamant that I wasn't a beach girl but he wanted me to experience something different and go clubbing etc etc. Turns out I AM a beach girl 😂

It was all a surprise, he just told me he was taking me somewhere hot and to bring swimwear.

I then got pregnant as soon as we came home and haven't been on holiday since 💔