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Thank you.

Amongst countless gilded posts, this is just golden.

Thanks for sharing your golden treasure trove of precious anniversary memories.

Thank you. Beautiful, poignant and perfectly paced. A diamond amongst rubies.

Thank you for sharing your parents Wedding anniversery with us DG, today would have been my dads Birthday but he did not make it this far either, I know exactly how you are feeling and it was nice to share your memories of this day along with my own.

Pure gold!

I always insist my parent's wedding anniversary is Easter Monday. If you can't have a wedding in lent then you cant clebrate it either...


Beautiful! The hotel could use your skills proof-reading their website...

May be end-of-week tiredness but I welled up at that beautiful post. Like the others said - thank you.

Poignant memories DG, thank you for sharing. Your parents' 10th wedding anniversary coincided with my birth - I'm 40 today.

Beautiful. made me well up too.

DG, that was a delight to read, your love for them shines through.



Me too
A lovely post


A lovely post dg, thanks.

A fantastic post, DG. I thought it was something special when I saw the blog in gold rather than grey!

As an aside, I think I may have visited that church a few times myself. It isn't opposite Theobalds Grove station in Waltham Cross by any chance, is it?

Wow, thank you for sharing that with us.

Congratulations to your parents!
That church looks like Holy Trinity, Waltham Cross; opposite Theobalds Grove station. If so, I know it well as I lived my childhood in Trinity Lane and passed that church every day. It's a small world.

Congratulations to Daddy Geezer!

And to you for writing such a warm and heartfelt tribute.

Mr BW's parents missed their Golden Anniversary by a similar amount of time. I suspect quite a few couples do. Perhaps the card companies could make cards for 'What would have been your...' as they seem to do every other sort these days.

My parents got married on October 7th forty years ago. That's ten years left for my brother and me to figure out how to prepare a surprise party for our parents' golden anniversary. I hope that'll work out.

this post is a lovely gift, nonetheless. my best to your mum this day.


I was thinking about my dad yesterday. It was because of Steve Jobs. I was thinking what a young age to die at - 56 - and then realised that was the age at which my dad died around 30 years ago when I was a teenager. And I thought of him as being an old man.

Lovely post.

A very touching post.

Sadly my parents never quite got to their Golden Wedding, either, as a result of my Dad's death in 1997.

A nice thing happened just earlier this year, which went some way to making up for that. There's a couple just a few doors away from me, who have made it to their Diamond Anniversary. It was really great to be invited over by them, and to have them proudly show me the congratulatory messages they'd received from not only from the Queen, but also from Barack and Michelle Obama.

It was just another of those things that makes you realise that London >isn't< just a city of "7 million strangers" after all



Thanks for sharing DG. Touchingly familiar and well written as always. My parents made it to 66 but sadly both passed away last year. We always need to keep these little moments close by to help us through the day.

Yikes! That hotel seems to have a thing about 60’s chintz patterns.

It's been a strange day, partly thinking about what might have been and partly celebrating just what we did manage in nearly forty-nine years.
Reading the post was a bitter/sweet experience but I managed not to blub. I had to be at the village hall this morning to convince some judges that our village was worth first prize in a countywide competition.
I have not kept a diary like DG so I've learnt things about our anniversaries that I had not remembered.
Since lunch I have been to the woodland burial ground with some nice bright flowers out of the garden and had my few minutes contemplation amongst the trees and fallen leaves. I drove home and found myself listening to Harry Nilssen singing 'One' with lyrics including:
"Because one is the loneliest number
that you'll ever do
one is the loneliest number
that you'll ever know".
But we were two for a long and lovely time. Now I have a target to reach of 7 October 2021.
Just one fact to correct. Our honeymoon was spent in a rebuilt brick-covered prefab on a North Norfolk cliff top. It was not a caravan! But then DG was not there, was he?
I'll get those mugs out tonight and have a celebratory drink of cocoa...

Daddy Geezer, you are a diamond too. I wish we are all healthy and able to reach the target date of October 7 2011. Best wishes.


My Mum & Dad's anniversary on he 17th of this month would have been their 75th, but my Dad died 55 years ago and my Mum 17 years ago. But it's still their anniversary and I will raise a glass to them and to everyone who spends their lives with one special person. And to my own wife of 31 years.
Thanks DG for your very heartwarming post.

Ok now I'm seriously blubbing, after reading Daddy Geezer's response too!

It was my parents 50th a couple of months ago. I felt so bad that we were still in the States and not able to be there for a big do, but they just quietly dropped all their plans and came out to visit us for a month instead. Pass the Kleenex, someone *sniff*

Ah, Bless the good memories.

Thank you DG and DG senior for sharing your thoughts with us. Helped to remind me of past mum and dad surprise celebrations. Uncle Sid bringing a turntable to play records but with no amplifier etc.

My parents married in 1961, too, but my father didn't make it much past the Silver, a slight non-event due to my A-Levels & my sister having to check in for a tonsillectomy!

A gem of a post DG.
Best wishes Daddy G.

Beautiful Words DG.

Ah, pass the tissues! Beautiful. Best wishes to Daddy Geezer.

Brought a tear to my eye damn you, especially as I now need to go to the shops.











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