He proposed . . . then wished that he hadn’t

In Britain, according to official figures, divorce among people aged 60 and over has risen since the 1990s in Britain, while in the rest of the population it has fallen. PHOTO | FILE |   NATION MEDIA GROUP

• According to official figures, divorce among people aged 60 and over has risen since the 1990s, while in the rest of the population it has fallen.
• When I told a Kenyan friend about this encounter, he said, “Kenyans are everywhere. There’s even a rumour one’s on the moon.”
  
  
  Back in 1967, Peter proposed marriage and almost immediately regretted it.
  But the engagement was in the local paper and he felt he could not back out.
  “I was weak-willed,” he said. Thirty-six years later, at the age of 64, he did back out.
  “I just bundled what I could into the car and went,” he told the BBC.
  “I remember her standing on the doorstep and I did feel sorry that I was hurting her.”
  Peter is one of an increasing number of British people splitting up in later life.