I made it!

[oggbashan]

Or rather - we did. It is our Golden Wedding anniversary today. I wasn't expected to be alive for it - but I am.

The celebration gathering is tomorrow when surviving friends and family visit. Three of those present at our very small wedding won't be there. My older brother (my best man) has died. The other two have lost contact over the years. The last contact with one was twenty years ago. We know he had moved but can't find him. The other one? He went off-grid as a wildlife warden forty years ago and hasn't been seen since.

It isn't a unique event in our families - my brother and sister in law, my parents, most of my cousins, my uncles and aunts (paternal and maternal) all made their golden wedding anniversaries. It is the same in my wife's family. Her parents, her uncles and aunts (except two uncles killed young in WW2) all made 50 years of marriage.

One of my cousins will be there with her husband. I haven't seen either since my brother's funeral. Another cousin is much older than me and too frail to travel. Her brother and his family are in Sydney. All the uncles and aunts are long dead.

My next milestone is my birthday at the end of April. I hope to make that too.

 

[TxRad]

Congratulations on both making it alive and for being married for so long. Both are major milestones.

Now the burning question can be asked. How did she put up with you for so long?

 

[Mastered_again]

Congratulations to both you and your wife!

We've still got a bit to go. It'll be 37 years for us come June.

 

[oggbashan]

Congratulations on both making it alive and for being married for so long. Both are major milestones.

Now the burning question can be asked. How did she put up with you for so long?

Tolerance - from both of us.

 

[TheOtherTeacher]

Congratulations!

 

[Rustyoznail]

Congratulations to you both. I hope the day goes well.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Congratulation Ogg!

 

[SimonDoom]

Congratulations! What a great milestone.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Congratulations to you and Mrs Og! Looks like you'll have a lovely day for it.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Good for you both, Ogg! Many congratulations.

 

[shivadancer]

Congratulations! A stellar achievement.

 

[KeithD]

Congrats. Going on 54 here.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Congrats your Maj, Helluva milestone, may you have many more together!

 

[yowser]

Excellent.

A tribute to resilience, patience, and yes, tolerance.

cheers

 

[oggbashan]

Thank you to all. The house is mad, getting ready for tomorrow. We have my wife's sister, two daughters, one granddaughter, and the other granddaughter and my son in law arriving shortly.

Tomorrow? About fifty people. But the weather is forecast to be fine. Some can sit out in the front garden watching the sea.

 

[MKvDeepSea]

Or rather - we did. It is our Golden Wedding anniversary today. I wasn't expected to be alive for it - but I am.

The celebration gathering is tomorrow when surviving friends and family visit. Three of those present at our very small wedding won't be there. My older brother (my best man) has died. The other two have lost contact over the years. The last contact with one was twenty years ago. We know he had moved but can't find him. The other one? He went off-grid as a wildlife warden forty years ago and hasn't been seen since.

It isn't a unique event in our families - my brother and sister in law, my parents, most of my cousins, my uncles and aunts (paternal and maternal) all made their golden wedding anniversaries. It is the same in my wife's family. Her parents, her uncles and aunts (except two uncles killed young in WW2) all made 50 years of marriage.

One of my cousins will be there with her husband. I haven't seen either since my brother's funeral. Another cousin is much older than me and too frail to travel. Her brother and his family are in Sydney. All the uncles and aunts are long dead.

My next milestone is my birthday at the end of April. I hope to make that too.

Congratulations!

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Well done, Ogg. Congratulations to you and your wife.

 

[SamScribble]

Pretty impressive, Ogg. Enjoy your day with family and friends.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

Congratulations!

 

[oggbashan]

The main event is tomorrow but this evening:

Sister-in-law, two daughters; two sons-in-law and all three grandchildren.

 

[Handley_Page]

Or rather - we did. It is our Golden Wedding anniversary today. I wasn't expected to be alive for it - but I am.

The celebration gathering is tomorrow when surviving friends and family visit.

My next milestone is my birthday at the end of April. I hope to make that too.

Hearty Congratulations, Ogg (& Mrs Ogg)

 

[Lovecraft_Lore]

Or rather - we did. It is our Golden Wedding anniversary today. I wasn't expected to be alive for it - but I am.

Congratulations. A major milestone. Hopefully the weather will be good and it will not turn out that the last 50 years were part of some elaborate decades-long a April fools day hoax.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

Congratulations!

 

[oggbashan]

50 years ago the weather was like today - sunny, bright and unseasonably warm.

Today (and tomorrow) my wife has her mother-made wedding dress on display (which she no longer fits) but is not much out. She also has the golden sweater I was wearing when we first met. I can't wear it. She can because it had shrunk from when my mother made it fifty-five years ago.

This evening we reprised the first meal (after the wedding meal) we had together. We had a delay on completion of our house purchase so had to rent a grotty holiday flat. The cooker didn't work (nor the fridge) so that evening we had fish and chips. The whole family had that tonight.

The flat also had a four-foot-wide bed that sagged in the middle. Six weeks later in our new house, we had a full-size mattress (but no bed for a week). Even a mattress on the floor was bliss compared with the holiday flat.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Congratulations Ogg, both for your anniversary and giving the Reaper the slip thus far.

My lady love has managed to stomach my presence for 27 years this month. I wonder where she finds the patience.