At the top of the illustration image, "Happy Birthday Uncle Iain – You’ve Officially Excavated Another Year!"

**Image Prompt:**

A surreal, illustrated landscape of a shimmering, ancient river winding through a dreamlike dig site. Uncle Iain, a whimsical white-haired man with a beard, sits atop a floating, oversized fish hook suspended from the sky by an invisible string. He is fishing — not for fish — but for artifacts rising like bubbles from the riverbed: golden amphorae, tiny birthday cakes encased in amber, miniature dinosaurs wearing party hats, and ancient birthday scrolls unraveling midair.

In the river, surreal elements like melted birthday candles drift alongside sunken rowboats shaped like layered birthday cakes. The surrounding excavation site is alive — pyramids made of stacked presents, balloons lifting up half-buried ruins, and excavation tools turning into streamers mid-dig.

In the background, other archaeologists made of papier-mâché cheer from the banks while disco-dancing trilobites kick up glitter from the muddy banks.

A whimsically bizarre celebration where time, history, and birthdays all get happily entangled in one fantastical fishing trip.

Generated with these themes: White haired man with a beard Fishing river archaeology.

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