A COUPLE that have travelled the world together, sharing a “good, happy life”, are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary today.

Richard and Michelene Poyser, known as Ricky and Micky, tied the knot on 23 March 1968 in London after first meeting when they were 16 and 17-years-old respectively.

Ricky, from Kentish Town, was a mod who used to ride his scooter up the street, and Micky, from Camden, admitted how she used to try “very hard” to catch his attention.

Micky said: “I said to my mum ‘I’m going to marry him’. One day, he stopped [on his scooter] and invited me to a party. I didn’t know he was inviting all the girls!

“So I went to the party, met all his friends, and there were lots of girls there that were all after him.”

From then on the fiery match was set and the couple happily say they have “rowed all our lives” since, covering the TV remote to driving and just about anything in between.

One row even ended up in a marriage proposal, when Ricky said, “if we can get over this row we might as well get married.”

And that was that.

The Lingen Close couple, who have two children, reminisced over their wedding clinking glasses of Asti spumante- not champagne- as it was the big thing of the time, and laughed at their “dreadful” honeymoon hotel room.

Ricky said: “We stayed in a hotel in Shaftesbury Avenue. It was a group of brides and grooms all arriving, the room was dreadful - you wouldn’t put a dog in there now.

“I still remember moaning about paying 10s 6d for a gin and tonic, that’s 52½p for a G and T!”

The grandparents-of-three were the first to move into Kingsway Gardens in 1969 and have lived around Andover ever since, currently with their Corkie dogs Mini and Bertie.

On the secret to a happy marriage, the couple agreed you have to work at it.

Micky said: “We have always spoken our minds, said what we think, whether that has led to a row, we have gotten over it. We are really honest and we do love each other.

“I have loved him since the first day I saw him.”

Ricky added: “I think we have been very lucky that throughout our life has been very good, our health, and we have travelled round the world.”

Micky agreed they’ve had a “nice, good, happy life.”

Ricky added: “And we’re still having one.”