Platinum

Jan and I recently went to Essex to help celebrate her parents' 70th wedding anniversary. There were ten of us in the lunch party at a the Ivy Hill hotel in Margaretting.

This was their wedding day in 1946. They had got engaged during the war; Dad had been posted to the Far East for three years, but then the war ended and he was back after three months.

HM The Queen sent her congratulations.

Just 36 years to go before ours!