A stroll down memory lane. I entered journalism in 1969 as a trainee reporter on a local newspaper and was soon assigned to cover golden weddings. There were a lot of them in those days, mainly because 50 years earlier, in 1919, the lads had come home from the First World War and married their sweethearts.
I became a bit of an expert on golden weddings. I prided myself on writing the answer to the Big Question in my notebook (“Plenty of give and take”) before even asking the Big Question (“So what is the secret of a long and happy marriage?”).
