A Twynholm couple celebrated 60 years of marriage with family and friends last week.
Billy and Mary McMorran enjoyed their big day at their home on Miefield Farm, Glengap.
The couple, who have worked on farms all their lives, first met on the hills above Dalry.
Billy was a shepherd and farm manager at Craigengillan while Mary’s father had the neighbouring farm.
The couple struck up a friendship while tending sheep – and the rest, as they say, is history.
“We just got talking and that was that,” Mary recalled. “Since then we have always worked together.
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“We are very fortunate – we have a nice family and the grandchildren are wonderful. We get a lot of fun out of them.”
Asked about their 60 years together, Mary said: “I think it’s me that deserves a medal!”
Billy and Mary got married on March 20, 1959, in Carsphairn Church.
The couple moved to Glengap to take up the tenancy at Miefield in 1970.
They have two sons, William and Brian, five grand-children and five great grand-children.
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Eldest son William runs Miefield and Brian is manager on a dairy farm at Borgue.
One grandson, Ian, is a joiner in Dalbeattie and another, Alistair, works in Henderson’s Butchers in Castle Douglas.
Both Mary and Billy still lead full and active lives.
Mary said: “All that fresh air in the hills keeps you healthy. We still help out around the farm.”
