Since Virgin's 21st birthday, this aircraft has maintained this special livery, with the minor change of the 21st birthday balloon's removal from the nose area.

After the initial explosion the orange PFD had been floating like a child's birthday balloon above the transom, tethered by its own strap.

She clapped her hands together, inflating like a birthday balloon.

What it sells Greetings cards, wrapping paper and a huge range of giftware, much of it personalised, from mugs and candles to birthday balloons, sashes, badges, picture frames, keyrings and notebooks.

Every day for a week the caravans arrived, and dirigibles labored up the long slope, and were tethered inside Zp, filling it so that the interior of the little crater looked like a bowl of birthday balloons.

Anna ties a note to one of her birthday balloons and lets it float out the window.

(A Mylar birthday balloon contains about one cubic foot of helium.)

A man wrestling a wind-whipped bag of birthday balloons paused to gawk before continuing his time-sensitive mission.

Catlin's cards are decorated with birthday balloons.

It was March 1998 when I was crossing 21st Street and Broadway that I saw her, in a black Honda Civic that was trailing birthday balloons.