Summer of 69

norose could've been a combination of the two....... ooops maybe that wasn't too well expressed!!

I was 18 and working as a Secretary. Unbeknown to me, I was about to meet the man I'm now married to and have been with ever since.

Oh, for the magic days of new romance and fluttering tummies!

Just had a baby, not married, in absolute turmoil mentally and physically. Now almost 50 yrs later, married to son's father for 46yrs, and had a great life. Never thought it would turn out like this back in '69.

Maccyt - you actually saw that butterfly release? What a privilege. I remember hearing about it and thinking how incredible that must have been to experience. ?

Norose - LOL

Married abroad (Middle East) in the spring. Living in small flat, hardly any furniture but deliriously happy. Just pregnant with first baby as we watched the moon landings on a friends television but found it a bit boring as could hardly see anything through the interference and didn't understand the language.

We were married on Grand National day in March, a horse called Highland Wedding won! I was 21 that May. Far too young but we thought we knew it all. We are still together, 48 years now. I didn't really think we'd last more than a year or so and we probably wouldn't but for extraordinary persistence and long suffering by DH!

Was 1 year old, holiday in Ireland, started walking and drove my uncle's car! Well held the steering wheel while sitting on his lap.

Sitting A levels and awaiting results! The hard work and revision paid off and I went into a career in banking. Was going steady with the man I married in 1971, we are still together.

In July 1969 we were travelling back to England and were in the middle of the Indian Ocean when the men landed in the moon. We had gone to Australia with two little daughters and came to England with the addition of two little sons as well.

Married just a year, leaving in a house, or half a house in lewisham, neighbour in rooms upstairs.
Had a wedding to go to it rained all day, and were flooded out. Great Lewisham floods

mazza245 We were married on the 29th March ,too. My Dad had Scottish ancestry so half our village had a flutter on 'Highland Wedding'. Dad wanted to put a fiver on the horse but we talked him out of it - that was a lot of money to lose in 1969, so he just bet ten shillings instead. He reckoned that he could have paid for the wedding with his winnings if he hadn't taken our advise!!!

Advice not advise. (Had to ask OH)

The general air of happiness expressed here is to be savoured. Wonderful! I add myself who had been married 15 months, living in Cyprus and son 1 arrived in March. Life could not better have been. We soldiered on blissfully for 30 lovely years until H died very suddenly. Mmmmmm. So glad and grateful I did not miss the many splendoured experience.

Yes it was one of my best years - working in a bank for less than £20 a week - enjoyed work in those days being the young ones in the office - first of my summer holidays abroad, but that's probably enough said about that, although I remember it all - brilliant.

If anyone has a time machine can I book a ticket please

We married in January 1969. In July that year we were on a belated honeymoon in Hampshire. We watched the moon landing on tv at 2am in the hotel lounge along with other guests. That evening, we had walked along the river marvelling that such a thing could happen and speculating that some time in the not too distant future, travel to other planets would be commonplace. We're still together, planning our golden anniversary in 18months' time. So far, so good

With my wedding planned for September my G'dad was another who placed a bet on Highland Wedding.
I've really enjoyed reading of our youthful experiences - so many shared memories!
Maybe it really was (one of) the best times of our lives!!
And only one cheeky remark (from norose)!

15, still at school but that May, met the Love of my life. He was 16. Once I graduated, we married and still are, almost 47 blissful years on

I was working in the City of. London where if a job didn't suit, you walked out and were in a new job by Monday lunch time. I often resented the employment agency shorthand and speed typing tests when I produced my secretarial college qualifications, but now realise so many unqualified girls hoped to slip through the net, thinking shorthand was a bit of a scribble at speed. How they didn't get caught I don't know, I struggled to take notes with 100 w.p.m. Under my belt. 120 w.p.m. Was superior but others could manage higher speeds. I still write down messages in shorthand today. I was working in insurance with my best friend who now lives in the USA. She is still married to her first husband from Spain. I married his best friend from Peru but it didn't work out.

I was 6 . I can't remember much ?

FUNERALPLANS
Can I ask for views on this?
Been getting a lot of junk mail recently and a lot of it is for Funeral Plans.
The scary bit is that it appears that if you don't take out a plan now, when the time actually comes, it will cost an absolute fortune!
The inference is that it would be unaffordable.
What is best? Any views on this ?

Sorry folks...this was meant to be a NEW thread but it has arrived on this one.
How do I open a new subject then?

Wow Grannysue - what a party pooper!!
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Go to the page that shows Forums. Choose the topic heading that suits you and click on Start a Conversation.
(It's a thread I'd be interested to read so don't be offended!)

Living in Caracas, Venezuela at the time. Very happy times! My husband was working for IBM (first real job out of college) and I was a twenty two year old (stay at home) mom with a seven month old baby girl. The moon landing happened in July of that year and very soon many of our neighbors crowded into our apartment (flat) to watch. It soon turned into a big house party with lots of beer, guitar playing and dancing. Venezuelans are very warm, welcoming and happy by nature. Our (first born) daughter began walking in the fall of that year. We moved back to the US in 1978. In retrospect, I've had a good life despite the fact that all of us (including our daughter) have endured some very serious health problems and gone through some very rough times. The one constant is that I have been married to him (love of my life) for over 50 years!

As a footnote: It breaks my heart to see such a brutal regime and the carnage that is unfolding in that country. After all the 'hand wringing' and all the endless talks, the OAS voted to do nothing!

Getting ready for our autumn wedding; working hard trying to climb the ladder at work. Seems so long ago now; still together 48 years later!

Just got engaged after meeting in February and married the following March. 47 years and he's still the love of my life!