"We'll be back in 10 years," they said in June 2007, after they had shared news of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary.
Laura Adair and Robyn Maheno kept that promise last week, dropping in with a photo of Neville and Glennis Ansley's 60th wedding anniversary cake-cutting.
![Neville and Glennis Ansley cut their 60th anniversary cake.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/QXWNJYY7S6FNNMSUDKAPPVPKXY.jpg?auth=b4805f297b9ecccc54ae4554f148c36e7ca1737517fe1a0299d1923a7a2b0d92&width=16&height=29&quality=70&smart=true)
The occasion had been celebrated with quiet gathering of family and friends, Laura said, although her mum had been thrilled to receive congratulatory cards from Her Majesty the Queen, the governor-general, the prime minister and Northland MP Winston Peters.
Neville, 82, and Glennis, 78, who now live in retirement at Cooper's Beach, and raised a family of four - the two girls, and sons Dennis and Neil - are not by the official definition true Far Northerners, but their story together began there.