Many Happy Returns Garage Joe !  

Happy birthday Joe. Have a lovely day.

Best wishes - and many more for the future 

Happy birthday GJ . Hope you're having a fab day .  

Hi! I couldn't get a signal for long enough returning home. Just got back. Thanks for your good wishes. Thanks for the crossword which I'll look at later. xxxx

Bit of a downer about Victoria Wood, same age as me too.

Garage Joe posted:

Hi! I couldn't get a signal for long enough returning home. Just got back. Thanks for your good wishes. Thanks for the crossword which I'll look at later. xxxx

Bit of a downer about Victoria Wood, same age as me too.

That's sad news

A Happy Birthday to you

Happy birthday, GJ!

Is it really a year since I posted the image below?

A very Happy promotion Birthday Garage Joe.

I know you will have a good one, just don't let anyone spill drinks on your cords. 

Answers to my cryptic crossword with explanations follow. They are in pale text so not so visible - highlight below to reveal:

Across
1 BHAJI - sounds a bit like the second part of argy-bargy

3 HI - Welsh for her is Hi

4 GARAGE = a type of music - Alan = Sugar, beheaded to get gar, then time = age

5 OPT - Drop  the

6 PHOTO =snap - boiling is hot put inside the river Po

7 LLOYD = silent comedian Harold, best known for the film Safety Last  - alloy duralumin

Down
1 BIRTHDAY - no explanation needed

2 JOE - joey with the y curtailed

3 HAPPY - application =app put in Hy which is a programming language version of Lisp

Happy Birthday GJ!

Many Happy Returns, Joe.

Hi! I drew the grid out on a killer sudoku blank. Just finished it. Thanks for going to all that trouble El Loro. I got Happy Birthday Bhaji Joe!

(not really)

Happy birthday GJ, hope your days been brilliant  

Happy Birthday Joe  

Hope you have had a fab day ... Happy Birthdat Joe

Thanks everyone!