Me and Billy, we’ve been together forever. He’s not always an easy man but I love him and, as the song goes, we’ve been together now for forty years and it don’t… well, best leave it there.
I’m not so sure about it not seeming a day too long. We’re both set in our ways, I suppose.
The Seventies-themed party was my idea – to inject a bit of zest into our lives, an excuse to get back in touch with all the old gang.
I never thought Billy would agree, but I told him I was sure there were still some old flares and a tank top in the attic. He laughed and said, “Most of my stuff’s so old, it’s vintage anyway,” so I knew he was up for it.
I started making lists of people we could invite: former colleagues, family members, old friends. Billy got all excited too and started making posters to pin on the living room wall – girls in Laura Ashley pinafore dresses and clogs, a few punks, photocopied newspaper articles about the three-day week.
It seemed to me that the Seventies started off trailing the last dregs of love and peace, and ended in a stew of strikes and safety pins. If that wasn’t a perfect metaphor for me and Billy, I don’t know what was.
We dusted off the Lazy Susan and filled it with nuts and crisps. We put some pineapple chunks and cheese, topped by a pickled onion, on cocktail sticks stuck into a potato. We planned quiche and Black Forest gateau and I dreamed up a hundred different fillings for vol-au-vents.
“Do they even still sell those things?” asked Billy, bemused.
“Well, I think so. If not, I’ll just have to make them.”
Billy raised a doubtful eyebrow. “We’ll have mushrooms in sauce and chunky chicken for the savouries, and then we’ll have lemon curd and jam for the sweet ones.”
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة October 12, 2019 من My Weekly.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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