Could you have imagined

as In-laws looked on

at the Warwickshire lad who

swept the nurse off her feet,

what fifty years would bring.

A half century on, time has been

and what a time it was,

from a still black and white photograph

as family joined, a celebration

that has been at sea and the comfort

of dry land, did you imagine

ever

that the life you have shared

would have been

before playing Cribbage