Really? 48 years…..?

Happy Anniversary to us! We can’t quite believe that we have been together for 55 years and married for 48 of them, but here we are. Goodness, we’ve seen and experienced lots of things along the way and we’re still making the most of it as best we can. Marvellous.

We celebrated with breakfast in bed this morning and cream cakes this afternoon. Paul bought us a bottle of champagne to imbibe this evening while we did our quiz, but we decided to keep it for another day. We’ll prolong the celebrations as long as we can!!

Our plans for the day were not really much in the way of high jinks – more ‘more of the same’ really. My plan was to paint the door surrounds in our bedroom so that they’ll be spruced up and in keeping with a brand new carpet that the carpet fitters will bring tomorrow.

I did get on with that job, but abandoned the idea of trying to get a second coat on, despite having said to John that I’d stay up to finish it ‘even if it was two o’clock in the morning’. And the reason I abandoned it? The opportunity to spend time with Paul and Freddie, of course!!

Oh, bliss. Paul phoned to say they were on their way and we set aside everything else to spend a lovely afternoon together. We all nattered and played and laughed and were just beautifully companionable.

And how Freddie is growing up. So articulate, explaining what he’d done and seen at Legoland where he’d been yesterday. So lively and lovely, as he worked out how much pocket money I would give him for his upcoming holiday. So interesting, as he played some more on the calculator and discovered that the phone in portrait showed the standard calculator, but what fun to turn it sideways for the scientific one!

We had a game of chess at which he beat me and was thrilled with his efforts, before we went upstairs to the computer where I was still setting up the quiz. Amazingly, he knew the answers to a few of the quiz questions. I mean, do you know what an axolotl is? Apparently there’s one in Minecraft, so Freddie did.

When we’d finished putting the last few questions into the quiz, I showed Freddie the e-jigsaw I like to do and so he had a go, too. He thoroughly enjoyed the fun of pitting his wits against the clock. Oh my, I did enjoy my time with him and Paul, and feel so grateful for the years of marriage which have given us these blessings. Lucky, lucky us.

This evening it was Quiz Night and we were Quiz Masters. I’m always nervous about getting the balance right in the quiz and wasn’t sure if I’d got this one right. It turned out that one or two questions had clearly been chosen from left-field. But, despite that, the score was pretty respectable at the end. And we stayed on, chatting long after the quiz had ended. We had fun. Thank the Lord once again, for friends and family.

Take care everyone. God bless.