Sunday

 Above and below pictures - Then and Now. Exactly fifty years apart.  Unusually  the above photo was taken with one of the new fangled colour cameras by a wedding guest.

The below four photographs show the lunch party held to celebrate our golden wedding  in a decent sized private room at the Swan Inn at Monks Eleigh. Thirty two family members sat down to lunch at three tables. The food served was up to the Swan's usual high standards, and between the courses our youngsters and their youngsters wandered between the tables catching up on all their cousins' news.

Above :- grandsons Guy and Matthew (cousins), meself, Ann, and Freja (Ruth's youngest).

Above and below :- general impressions of the room. Doesn't show, but there was a decent fire in the huge fireplace.

It was a glorious meal, and a lovely party. Afterwards, just over twenty of our family came on to our house, and the party finally broke up at about seven thirty - a memorable day!

P.s. All the photos were taken by Ruth on my camera. She and the girls are staying with us for the next fortnight. Ruth took loads more photos, and I shall probably bore you rigid with them over the next few days.

P.p.s. Ruth wishes me to make it clear that she certainly didn't take the first photgraph in 1963.