50th wedding anniversary Clarrie MacDuff
I welcome the opportunity to come up here and clear up a
long-held perception. Jack and I were supposed to have done a dastardly deed
and robbed the community by rigging the chocolate wheel. Don’t laugh. It was a very
serious thing at the time. It happened like this at the convent school fete.
Jack and I were deputised to run the chocolate wheel. There were only two major
prizes and they were gentlemen’s dressing gowns. And who do you think won the
two dressing gowns? Even to this day I think my wife, Mollie, wonders if the
wheel was perfectly round or whether somehow things weren’t quite right. I
would like to put all that suspicion to rest. It was on the up and up. We won
those two dressing gowns fair and square.
Having cleared that up, I would like to congratulate John
and Enid on having such a marvellous family. It must be wonderful to grow up in
a family like that, with all the understanding and concessions that would be
necessary to get along, even when you’d feel like throttling each other at
times. You’ve come through it all very well and should be proud of yourselves.
And I’d also like to congratulate the family on having such wonderful parents
and all being here together to celebrate this occasion. Happy anniversary Jack
and Enid.
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