Inverness couple reveal the secret to a happy marriage

A couple from Inverness celebrate their 60 wedding anniversary and reveal the secret to a happy marriage.

Transcript

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.