As Heather knows, her birthday is always followed immediately by another significant anniversary – that of her parents’ wedding – and it was no different this year. In fact, with a time difference of 16 hours, we find ourselves celebrating birthday and wedding anniversary concurrently, even if we are half a world apart.

For us, the anniversary did not involve special meal treats on this occasion although we did go to a new cafe restaurant in a neighbouring suburb. It makes a feature of its gluten free cakes and slices so we expected that R would be able to select something tasty to go with the pot of herbal tea. Sadly, on this day the cafe had received very good patronage and the selection of treats was greatly diminished by the time of our visit late afternoon. Packaged cookies is all that was left.

Still, it was a pleasant afternoon and we enjoyed each other’s company. I was able to celebrate with an iced mocha accompanied by raisin scones with jam and cream.

The day finished with attendance at our fortnightly neighbourhood study group where we shared our anniversary news with members of the group.

The celebratory theme continues on Saturday as Matt, cousin of L15, A13 and B9 and younger brother of Luke who featured in an earlier blog, has a “surf party” at the coast.

Now we have entered the fiftieth year of marriage. I wonder what next year’s celebrations will mean.