{"id":3038,"date":"2021-09-09T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2021-09-09T23:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:09:33","slug":"thursday-9th-september-2021-day-542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/09\/thursday-9th-september-2021-day-542\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 9th September, 2021 [Day 542]"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the day has finally dawned to which I had been looking forward for some time now. It is the day of our 54th wedding anniversary and the day seemed very similar in\u00a0temperament to the way it was in 1967. One thing I particularly\u00a0<\/span>remember about that particular day is the fact that one of Meg’s cousins and the parents of Meg’s bridesmaid were both coming from afar to Manchester – one\u00a0from South Wales and the other from Solihull. These two sets of guests both had\u00a0particular and distinctive sports cars. From my memory (which may well be faulty) one of these was a Daimler Dart and the other may well have been one of the more distinctive Triumphs. Anyway, the\u00a0owners of these cars had each\u00a0taken note of the other whilst\u00a0they were proceeding along the\u00a0motorway (the M6) into Manchester and were regularly\u00a0overtaking each\u00a0other turn and\u00a0turn about (as sometimes cars do, travelling at about the same speed). Imagine the astonishment when one\u00a0followed the other\u00a0through the suburbs of\u00a0Manchester and they eventually\u00a0landed up\u00a0outside the same church (i.e. Church of the Holy Name, opposite the main\u00a0entrance to the\u00a0University of Manchester) when they discovered that they were each coming to\u00a0the same\u00a0event i.e. our wedding, Naturally, there was mutual amazement when they finally met having chased each other for miles. We have a\u00a0series of\u00a0the\u00a0original wedding photos on my iPhone, scanned from the original photos at the time of our 50th 4 years ago and the photos, with the\u00a0passage\u00a0of time, are quite revealing (black and white, of course) In one photo, six male friends of Mike’s are shown all in the prime of their lives. Who would have\u00a0thought that over 50 years later, three of these would be dead (one of them my own best man), a fourth suffering from prostate cancer and a fifth with dementia. There appears to be one member of the six\u00a0apparently unscathed but it does tend to show dramatically the frailty of the male members of the species. Another fact revealed in the photos is Meg’s wedding\u00a0dress, which is\u00a0actually a\u00a0Mary Quant copy. (Mary Quant was said by some to be the inventor of the miniskirt and was was\u00a0certainly an icon of women’s fashions in the 1960’s) If Meg’s wedding\u00a0dress had been a\u00a0May Quant original it would have cost \u00a31,000’s but\u00a0what happened is that Meg sketched out some of the designs she liked which\u00a0epitomised the Mary Quant ‘look’ and Meg’s mother, whom was an excellent couturier, bought the materials and made the dress, When, in\u00a0occasions like this, we show the wedding photographs to people that we meet,\u00a0practically\u00a0ever female of the older generation will have heard of Mary Quant and can\u00a0therefore relate to the design. \u00a0As well as\u00a0being above the\u00a0knee (just), the outfit also sported a wonderful lace\u00a0bonnet which was very much ‘a la mode<\/em>‘ in 1967. \u00a0We have one more fairly remarkable fact about our wedding photos. When I was getting them out of their retaining album for our 50th, a\u00a0piece of lined paper fell out\u00a0which was actually the organist’s original notes of everything that we had played at out wedding. From this list, I have managed to scour the internet and get\u00a0practically identical facsimiles so we now have the\u00a0facility to run a slide show and play the wedding tracts which is almost as good as a video might have been (or a cine film, I suppose, in 1967). This all comes to mind because Meg and I went went to\u00a0Waitrose by car,\u00a0discovering some champagne and cards\u00a0left by a friend when we were on our way out. Once we go into Waitrose, we showed the photos on my phone to a few of the regular staff who know us very well and were rewarded by a\u00a0bunch of flowers as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing that we were going out in the evening, we had a light lunch and I spent\u00a0one time getting my building\u00a0society accounts all made accessible\u00a0through an app I have installed on my phone. Then we got our ‘glad\u00a0rags’ on and went out for a meal to our favourite hotel\/restaurant, starting at 6.30 and carrying on until 10.00pm. We\u00a0had a really marvellous dinner\u00a0with lots of good food and scintillating\u00a0<\/span>conversation with laughter and merriment very much in evidence. Our friends had also bought us some birthday wine and cards to help us make our day really memorable. As another sort of\u00a0coincidence, my local friendly newsagent is going to\u00a0celebrate 45 years of\u00a0marriage in two days time – his wedding anniversary can never\u00a0be forgotten as it is the by\u00a0now ‘infamous’ 9\/11 (i.e. 11th September) in which the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York were attacked and destroyed\u00a0some 20 years ago now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the day has finally dawned to which I had been looking forward for some time now. It is the day of our 54th wedding anniversary and the day seemed very similar in\u00a0temperament to the way it was in 1967. One thing I particularly\u00a0remember about that particular day is the fact that one of Meg’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}