Dear LPG,

Have you ever had one of those moments when you have the most random thought that just keeps recurring? Well I had one recently which was still there when I got to Google and I found some really interesting information on the subject.

Perhaps it is true that men do not have time for such thoughts but, out of the blue one evening I found myself thinking about something that my husband said to me in passing one day long before he got round to popping any other question.  He told me that, if he married me, one thing he could be sure of is that I would not look too bad when I got older, if the way my mother looked at the time was anything to go by.

After my recollection of his statement I found myself digging out my old family photographs to check how similar my mum and I have looked over the years and I suppose that, if when you compare, you compensate for the twenty or so years of fashion that have elapsed between the times that the pictures were taken, there is some truth in that.

Then I remembered that most women are supposed to look more like their fathers and vice versa, and I have to say that when I look at my other half I can see absolutely no resemblance, so I supposed that that’s another theory out of the window.  For a while I found myself studying my grandchildren and comparing them with their parents but I think that I learned very little from doing that. 

Google had a few things to say on the subject though.  I found evidence that we all look more like our fathers than our mothers which is a bit confusing and apparently it goes further than that.   We tend to choose spouses that look like our parents and I always thought that the way we behave and our temperaments were mainly influenced by how we are brought up in general.

What do you think?  I am not trying to cause an argument but perhaps we married oldies should take a good look at our spouses to see if any of the science bears out the facts, and today might be just the right day to consider the evidence, but when you have finished remember that none of this matters anyway as long as you still love each other.

So forget all that and appreciate what you have by doing something special or at least telling your other half how much you love them…

If LPG is able to print this on the day I asked them to, this next sentence should be arguably more accurate than all the science…

Did you know that today is National Spouse Day?

PB, Sydenham

PB offers us the Googled expertise which supports her facts today…

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…and some information on the celebratory significance of the day…

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