Today, my Nan and Grandad celebrate 65 years of marriage!  Yup, 65 years! 
That's another letter from the Queen! 
The local newspaper has even been round today to get an interview for a feature. 

I am a bit gutted we cannot be there to celebrate with them, but I hope they know we are thinking about them and I hope that somebody who knows how to switch a computer on, shows them this post too! 

Good job guys- 65 years is mighty impressive! 

I hit the Internet for a few facts about the day they married:

7th April 1947

On this day in 1947, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, which developed the first affordable, mass-produced car--the Model T--and also helped pioneer assembly-line manufacturing, dies at his estate in Dearborn, Michigan, at the age of 83.

Another famous marriage on this day:
Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy") married;
Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah.
(I just love the descriptions above, which were printed in the newspaper.  I should have put something similar on my wedding invites, "Elyse Anne Gardner, 22, a heavy set, butcher girl", just so flattering!)