Seventy years Jackie is quite a celebration
deserving of our own unqualified ovation.
When I look back at our association, it appears
that we have known each other for all of forty years.
Do you remember the games and sports we used to play?
Tennis at your’s or mine, and croquet on a fine day.
Or if you felt up to it and able,
a spot of the other kind of tennis – on the table,
Yes, because we always had so many ‘fish to fry’,
we sometimes left our poor spouses high and dry.
Actually I think ‘wet’ is a better word to use
for their mountaineering efforts to find the best views.
And so we arrive at this week’s special affair,
and we are both truly sorry not to be there.
But now I have got this apology off my chest,
I can finish by sending our love and all the best.
For Jackie on her 70th birthday.