Young Love

This is a hugely personal Blip for me.

It's a Blip of an old photo and it shows my mum and dad some time after they got engaged. From the poshness of the garden, I'd say it was taken at my maternal grandfather's house (they lived on Royal Terrace in Edinburgh at the time).

My mum is 19 in this and my dad would be 24/25.

I have no idea how much Brylcreem my dad used. Perhaps too much. 10 years later and his hair was pretty much gone (I was 5 by then).

I think it's the best picture of them together that I've seen (I've never seen the wedding album - a keepsake that disappeared in mysterious circumstances).

Happy as they both look in this, it didn't last. The marriage did but the happiness certainly didn't. That's a whole other story though and perhaps one best to be forgotten. My mum did find happiness though. Quite a lot of it.

Take another look at her and tell me she didn't deserve it.