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My 46th Wedding Anniversary

We’ve been together for 46 years, and live to tell the tale!

4 min readOct 25, 2026

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Yesterday was our 46th wedding anniversary. Honest. How we survived together for 46 years without killing each other beats me.

Yesterday marked a turning point though. It was the first time we had not fought over something, and spent the entire day not talking to each other. We do this regularly. At least, we used to. Every anniversary, birthday, and New Year’s.

What did we fight about? Well, the man used to say something in his ornery way, and it used to upset me, and then I used to try to talk it out with him. Then I realised that he was sulking. Because I was hurt that he said something to upset me. Weird? Well, he was. It was.

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Anyway, we are in magical Melbourne now. Yesterday it was raining like the heavens were determined to put out any lurking bush fire anywhere in Australia. We couldn’t step out.

I cooked some. Then I wrote some, read some and played my daily four games of Sudoku. The man I…

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Teacher, poet, cook, gazer-into-space. Loves trees, books, people, cats, tea. Believes humanity is good by default, and prayer works. Author of seven books.

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