Jubilations

On 15/05/202215/05/2022 By CalmgroveIn blogging

Forget Her Maj – gawd bless ‘er – celebrating her platinum jubilee: if I’m seemingly incommunicado this weekend it’s because the better half and I will be marking our golden wedding anniversary with some of our extended family, and will thus be otherwise engaged … but I shall be back in due course!

46 thoughts on “Jubilations”

Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt

Delighted congratulations to you two!
I can’t believe that will be it for us in three years.

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15/05/2022 at 6:57 am Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thanks, Alicia! I do hope it will be a good one for you two as well in 2025. 😊
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:26 am Reply
jjlothin

Oh, many congratulations to you both! Hope you have a wonderful celebration – and a very well-deserved rest!

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15/05/2022 at 9:42 am Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Yay, thanks, JJ! We had a minibreak glamping near the sea with children and grandchildren, and it was indeed wonderful – Saturday was the most perfect day weatherwise and funwise!
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:28 am Reply
Paula Bardell-Hedley

Many congratulations to you and Emily. I hope you have a wonderful week with your family. Big hugs 🤗🥂🎇🎉

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15/05/2022 at 9:48 am Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thanks so much, Paula – though it wasn’t a week, just a long weekend, and we had the most perfect day on Saturday: sunny on the beach at Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower, picnics, sand-surfing on the dunes, swimming, kite-flying, sandcastles, maze-running, and rebinding with our adults offspring and seven grandchildren from 5 to 19…
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:37 am Reply
bormgans

Congratulations are in order! I hope you and yours enjoyed the festivities! Here´s to many more!

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15/05/2022 at 9:54 am Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Certainly we hope so, Bart, thanks very much! 🙂
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:38 am Reply
Annabel (AnnaBookBel)

Happy Anniversary to you both! I hope you have wonderful celebrations.

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15/05/2022 at 11:38 am Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  We did indeed, Annabel, the extended family did us proud, twelve of us with nary a tear – except of tiredness – and the most perfect weather by the sea before threatened thunderstorms after we’d set off home! 😊
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:42 am Reply
Bookstooge

God bless you both….

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15/05/2022 at 11:38 am Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thanks very much, we did feel blessed. 😊
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:43 am Reply
piotrek

Oh wow, Happy Anniversary!

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15/05/2022 at 12:02 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  I hope you two get to have such an occasion too, Piotrek, we couldn’t have imagined getting to this point, hopefully happier as well as wiser, back in 1972.
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:45 am Reply
Helen

Congratulations to you both! I hope you’re having a great weekend.

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15/05/2022 at 12:58 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thank you, Helen, it was indeed a fantastic and successful weekend – now we’re home we are basking in the memories!
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:46 am Reply
Jane

Congratulations, have a wonderful week!

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15/05/2022 at 1:07 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thank you, Jane, it was really only a long weekend, but glamping made it feel longer and a real treat!
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:47 am Reply
mallikabooks15

Many congratulations to you and Emily. Enjoy yourself and have a great celebration🎈🎈🎂🎂🎉🎉

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15/05/2022 at 2:24 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  I appreciate it, Mallika, thank you, the long weekend went even better than we hoped, with lovely surprises along the way from our lovely children and their children. 😊
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:50 am Reply
  1. mallikabooks15
    
    Glad it was such fun! My best wishes once again!
    
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    16/05/2022 at 12:55 pm Reply
    1. Calmgrove
      
      😊
      
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      16/05/2022 at 2:29 pm Reply
alibrarylady

Oh how lovely! Wishing you both a very happy anniversary and I hope you enjoy your celebrations.

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15/05/2022 at 4:23 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thank you, Anne, we did enjoy it very much: we went glamping at Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower where we’d spent many happy holidays with our kids camping in the 70s and 80s – so much has both changed but also remained the same since then!
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:54 am Reply
Debbie Gascoyne

Warmest congratulations to you both! Happy Anniversary!

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15/05/2022 at 4:34 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thank you very much, Debbie, a golden anniversary by sunny golden sands was perfect! 🙂
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:55 am Reply
Silvia

Congratulations on this big mark.

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15/05/2022 at 7:13 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thanks so much, Silvia, it was very special in more ways than one. 😊
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:56 am Reply
kaggsysbookishramblings

Congratulations! A much more important anniversary!

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15/05/2022 at 8:01 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  I’d like to think so too, Karen, not being much of a royalist myself! Now the diamond anniversary to look forward to, though we’ll definitely take it one year at a time…
  
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  16/05/2022 at 11:58 am Reply
Ola G

Congratulations! And a very happy 50th wedding anniversary, Chris!!!

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15/05/2022 at 11:56 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Dzięki, Ola, it was a brilliant long weekend’s celebration!
  
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  16/05/2022 at 12:00 pm Reply
gertloveday

Congratulations Chris. Hope you had delightful celebrations.

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16/05/2022 at 12:08 am Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  We did indeed, Gert, thank you, glamping with children and grandchildren by an unseasonably sunny beach did us a powerful bit of good! 🙂
  
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  16/05/2022 at 12:13 pm Reply
  1. gertloveday
    
    Wonderful; sounds perfect.
    
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    16/05/2022 at 12:32 pm Reply
    1. Calmgrove
      
      😊
      
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      16/05/2022 at 12:35 pm Reply
Liz Dexter

Wow, congratulations!

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16/05/2022 at 12:37 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Cheers, Liz, I sometimes can’t believe it myself that it’s been half a century!
  
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  16/05/2022 at 2:31 pm Reply
Lizza Aiken

I won’t add to the jamboree blocking your inbox – oh well, yes I will – Congratulations!

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17/05/2022 at 12:54 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Huzzah! Thank you, Lizza, it was brilliant! 😊
  
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  17/05/2022 at 1:05 pm Reply
Sandra

Many, many congratulations, Chris and Emily. Sounds like you had a wonderful time. Well deserved 😊

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17/05/2022 at 2:29 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  We did indeed, Sandra, thank you – and if still being together after fifty momentous years deserves a special family treat then so be it! 😊
  
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  17/05/2022 at 3:28 pm Reply
BookerTalk

What an achievement! Hope you have a wonderful celebration Chris (lucky that it didn’t happen last year and you’d have had to celebrate just a deux)

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17/05/2022 at 9:45 pm Reply
1. Calmgrove
  
  Thanks, Karen. 🙂 As we got married a year and a day after we first spoke – on the phone when she first enquired about a part-time job at the library I was then seconded to – we at least celebrated 50 years of still speaking, even though it was as you say à deux!
  
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  17/05/2022 at 11:05 pm Reply
  1. BookerTalk
    
    What a lovely story about how you met. Not so much love at first sight but love at first sound!! Do you dine out on that one a lot?
    
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    19/05/2022 at 10:30 pm Reply
    1. Calmgrove
      
      We absolutely do!
      
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      19/05/2022 at 11:00 pm Reply