Thirty-Seven Years!

On this day the 31^st March 1978 I was in my final hours of bachelor hood. Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary, when I think about this I could easily make this blog very clichéd, you know things about the rough with the smooth, about it being a rollercoaster of a ride etc. The problem is that after this amount of time married life is the normal state and it is difficult to remember what life was like before that.

The first thing to say is that it is wrong to preach to other people, what has worked and not worked for us is unique to us and is certainly not applicable to anybody else. I am sure a lot of people look at us with great puzzlement.

What is great is that I probably look forward to 1 April, yes we were married on April Fools Day with more pleasure than birthdays or festivals, because it really is an affirmation as to what has gone before. Also because of circumstance so many of our anniversaries have been spent apart, but as new retirees we will be together tomorrow on a weekday. It will start with me delivering a breakfast tray to Marion with a red rose and a glass of bubbling champagne. OK so that bit is the April Fools joke, one thing that I have learnt in thirty-seven years is that Marion does not like to consume any sort of food in bed. I cannot remember her even drinking coffee in bed, as to eating in bed there is some fetish to do with toast crumbs and sheets, don’t ask.

No we will have a super friendly but very humdrum day. It will start with a simple breakfast and be followed by a visit to the gym to get those endorphins going as per yesterday. We have booked lunch at our favourite café and will probably have fish and chips. In the evening we will crack a bottle of champagne and probably have a reminisce. This will be followed by an episode of House of Cards.

We have had some wonderful and exciting times together, have produced two lovely children who have in turn the fantastic grandchildren. We have experienced some of the most fantastic sites in the world, dined at lovely restaurants and seen world-class theatre, but it is the days like tomorrow that I have described that will always remain memorable.