My parents got married on 1st June, 1980. My dad used to write an anniversary poem every year. Here's one from 2009. The reference to the "Gift From Ninian park" was a Cardiff City FC lightshade and lamp. My mum was thrilled, as you can imagine.

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29^th Anniversary

To my darling Teresa - on our wedding anniversary

29 years of married bliss

What more fanciful than this

To go shopping just for you

For something novel, something new

You take the blindness from my eyes

And light them up like summer skies

To prove you lift me from the dark

Accept this gift from Ninian Park

The dazzle that a dawning brings

Is in the soaring bluebird’s wings

And so the city’s bluebird stamp

Is on your brand new table lamp

This present that you’ll thank me for

Persuades my giving heart towards more

The perfect match is made and played

With a bluebird on your ceiling shade!

And as I am your biggest fan

I love you more than Myles loves Ran

I love you more than Tone loves Rache

And even more than P loves H

And the best part of getting older

We can add up all the years together

We’re not mere pups or tiny tots

What they’ve just nibbled, we’ve had lots!!!

From Spiro

Your darling husband

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