Living ascetically on the opposite side of the world, TATTGOC's puckish Japan correspondent and tyro ninja scholar Makhni Knife has been unable to experience any official Curry Club meet-ups in person (with one notable exception).

Perhaps due to his diligent study of Eastern philosophy and mysticism, Makhni does often seem to be there in pungent spirit: how else to explain TATTGOC's signature mix of rigorously observed ceremony and feral enthusiasm?

Today is Makhni Knife's birthday, and while we'll surely raise a faux-mocking glass to his steadily advancing years during Curry Club's pathbreaking visit to Scotland's capital tomorrow evening, in the meantime Trampy and The Tramp wish to formally extend their most honourable congratulations, in what has become something of an annual tradition. We hope other members of the TATTGOC brotherhood will add their voices to the chorus of congratulations in the comments below. Keep it clean, though, eh lads?

Kanpai!