Tiring day yesterday: went with Annette to Lowestoft to take down the pictures and removed the Poetry Vending Machine from the Warehouse. Then played on Board Four against Norfolk and Norwich A and had a really good win. Today I’ve been in – rather frustrating, though I wrote a bit, but spent far too long trying to set up Dot’s printer. They seem to specialise in telling you all the things you don’t need to know, and nothing you do.

The photograph is the wedding of my Aunt Thelma – my mother’s younger sister – and Roy Howard, the Robert-Mitchum lookalike. I was always a big Robert Mitchum fan, so I couldn’t help liking Roy. I always remember him courting Thelma, coming round to her parents’ house at 34 Hall Road, Norwich (now demolished). There used to be a butcher’s shop next door – now a row of maisonettes.

I don’t know most of the people in the picture – Roy’s relations. I think it was taken at St Peter Mancroft Church, and we had the reception at a place in St Stephen’s, upstairs.  The people I do know are on the right: my mother, looking very smart,  is standing with me (far right) and my two brothers, Andrew and Philip, also on their best behaviour.  Next to my mother is my Aunt Olive (mother’s sister), with her husband Ted. Nearby are my mother’s father, looking quite perky at the back, and near the front, her mother. They are Frederick and Rosa Brown.