Hiya, Tom from the Tom & Dan Show here. Dan from the Tom & Dan Show has just turned 30.

I wanted to give the ol’ boy a nice surprise for his birthday, so I arranged for a private-screening of his favourite Christmas movie at Grand Festival Cinemas with some of his closest friends. And the ones that couldn’t be there, we managed to record messages with and play them all out on a video on the massive screen before the movie started.

Dan had no idea. And I’m sure I spotted a small tear at the end of the video!

Here’s how the morning unfolded…

Now that Dan has hit 30, I really think he should take his earring out. He’s not a young, trendy thing anymore (!) and I’m not sure he ‘gets away with it’! LOL

Here it is. What do you think? Should Dan ditch the diamond or bling his way through his 30s? Leave us a comment.

And finally…

…to help Dan out, I’ve found a list of things on the internet that are the ‘laws’ of the 30s and should help him through these senior years…

1. You leave clubs before the end to “beat the rush”.

2. You get more excited about having a roast dinner than going clubbing.

3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and start dreaming of having a son who might instead.

4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section.

5. Before going out anywhere, you ask what the parking is like.

6. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they’ll be all right for the garden.

7. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it.

8. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of a plastic winter cover for your garden bench and an electronic mole repellent for the lawn. Not to mention the plastic man for the car to deter would-be thieves.

9. You start to worry about your parents’ health.

10. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want to buy costs more.

11. You don’t get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or a Wallace and Gromit bubble bath, as the sales assistant assumes they are for your child.

12. Pop music all starts to sound rubbish.

13. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they don’t have any pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice half-bottle of house white.

14. You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture.

15. You always have enough milk in.

16. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing,you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants and franchise pubs with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.

17. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.

18. You wish you had a shed.

19. You have a shed.

20. You actually find yourself saying “They don’t make ‘em like that anymore” and “I remember when there were only 3 TV channels” and “Of course, in my day….”

21. You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11