Golden Years
Golden Years 💛 💛 1974: The year of Red Rum And Abba’s Waterloo. And also, more importantly, The year that Mum and Dad Got married. 50 years ago, on the 15th of April, Mum walked elegantly up the path to Winsford Church in her scalloped-sleeved white dress, Arm in arm with her Father Henry To be wed, with her bridesmaids, two of Dad's sisters, Pat and Lucy, looking the height of fashion in their polyester turquoise and yellow ruched-sleeved dresses... ...And Dad, likewise, Seventies-swaggered up the same path in his burgundy flared suit and sideburns with his best man Gerald. Since then they've walked their path together, as happy now as they were back then, if not more so. It's been a walk that's taken them Through Exmoor’s combes and valleys; The rocks of Lynmouth and Tarr Steps Bridging their love of the great outdoors. They've walked through fields of toil, Dad ploughin...