Does Hallmark do a card for 81st wedding anniversaries? If not, they missed a trick with Frank and Anita Milford. They got married in 1928 and are on their way to becoming the longest married couple in Britain. The BBC reports that "The Milfords were married in 1928 - the year penicillin was discovered" as if to suggest that they made use of a miracle cure. I think their 74-year old son hit the nail on the head. "They've enjoyed themselves, enjoyed their lives very much but they've been always very content with their lot," he said.
That's the nub of it. Being content with your lot. All these greedy grasping types won't make 100, I'm sure, because of all the stress and strain of it all. Far rather that lives are enjoyed and people enjoyed than join the rats in a never-ending race.
The government keeps wasting money whilst pleading poverty
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Outside Parliament they are digging ip the road to put in an expensive new
cycle lane. They have just spent large sums on putting up ugly metal fences
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