WHEN Margaret and Norman Davis met, she promised the lorry driver she would teach him how to dance.

Sixty years of marriage and two children later, the 80-year-old said she was still teaching him.

The couple from Hethe, near Bicester, celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary today and will celebrate surrounded by family at the weekend.

Mrs Davis, nee Horne, said: “We’ve been very happy together. We’ve lived in this house here for 53 or 54 years now.”

The couple met at a depot in Bicester when Mrs Davis worked there and Mr Davis drove his lorry.

Romance blossomed when he gave her a lift in the lorry and asked if he could come to a dance with her that evening.

She said: “I said ‘yes, that’s fine’. But then he said ‘I don’t dance’ so I said ‘oh dear, I’ll have to teach you’.”

They married at St Edmund’s and St George Church on March 29, 1952, but a heavy snowfall the day before meant it wasn’t all plain sailing.

Mrs Davis said: “Everyone else was very worried because of the snow.

“We had to hire a car but Norman’s broke down. They got a lift with a woman into Bicester because he told her it was his wedding day.

“Then they tried to find a taxi, but they couldn’t find one. He eventually arrived at the church 50 minutes late.

“Everyone told me it was supposed to be the bride who was late.”

Mr Davis, 82, had also served as a sapper with the Royal Engineers in the late 1940s, serving in Singapore and Egypt.

The couple have two children, Christine and Pauline, and a grandson Stuart.

Mrs Davis added: “A happy marriage is all about give and take. We have our rows like everyone but it’s all forgotten about straightaway.”