A couple from Inverness celebrate their 60 wedding anniversary and reveal the secret to a happy marriage.
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00:00 How did you both meet?
00:02 Do you see that?
00:05 What was that?
00:07 We both met.
00:08 Met. We met in the telephone exchange in Inverness.
00:12 I worked for the Post Office Engineering Department
00:15 and Heather was a telephone operator.
00:18 What does it mean to you, meeting this milestone,
00:21 your 60th anniversary?
00:23 Oh, that's a difficult question. What does it mean?
00:25 Well, I think we're very lucky.
00:27 Yeah, we're very lucky indeed. We've had pretty good help.
00:30 Yeah, we've had good service.
00:32 Which has made a big difference.
00:34 And how old were you when you first met?
00:37 Well, I was 21.
00:41 You were 25.
00:43 I was 24.
00:45 And the big question is, what's the secret to a happy marriage?
00:50 Well, tolerance.
00:53 Is it happy?
00:55 Looking after each other is the answer.
00:58 And what is it like for the two of you, being part of the community in Inverness?
01:04 Oh yeah, we enjoy that.
01:06 We are Indonesians, you know, and we've been in this house almost 60 years,
01:11 which is a long time.
01:13 And we've had lovely neighbours.
01:15 Our neighbours were really like family to us.
01:18 The children grew up together.
01:21 We've seen him go to school, weddings, grandchildren.
01:25 We had the same neighbour for almost 58 years.
01:28 He died a couple of years ago.
01:30 And the next one, another two houses along,
01:35 he's been here the same length of time as we have.