Monday, April 29, 2013

Peregrinations

Since last sitting at my desk, I have been travelling around Britain and generally having a good time. There has been a lot of cake:
Lots of memories:
April 1973
Revisiting of special places:
Hawk and Buckle April 2013






Swallow Falls 1973
Caernarvon Castle 1973

The MM and I were celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. Our plan had been to have a quiet weekend away but our son and daughter had other plans and we were swept away in a whirl of gatherings, champagne, dinners and visits. After a weekend of fun here with the family, they packed us off to 

in North Wales to stay in the seventeenth century coaching inn where we spent the first few days of our honeymoon. The mountains, castles and coast looked the same and, as long as we avoided mirrors and shop windows, we imagined we were the same young people who went there in 1973!


15 comments:

  1. Many congratulations! The photographs are absolutely lovely. How time flies, eh?

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    1. Thank you, Colleen. Time does fly, it only seems a blink since we visited all those lovely places for the first time.

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  2. What dear, dear children! So thoughtful! Congratulations to you both!!

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    1. Yes, Nan, we think they are great! However, just to keep them in line, my husband made a little thank you speech that went something like this: Thank you for coming down to celebrate with us and for this wonderful gift. We haven't done anything to deserve it. Well, perhaps just a little: brought you into the world, nurtured you, clothed and fed you, paid for your education, supported you through university and now welcome you for holidays and look after your children. But we'll do better!

      Luckily, they share his sense of humour!

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  3. They are wonderful children and thank goodness you let them plan this excursion. You may not be the same in the mirror but you're so much better! I hope you'll post more pictures when you catch your breath because we love seeing them.

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    1. Dewena, thank you. I did take some pictures but the weather was so wild that they don't look as good as the 1973 version. I will see what can be salvaged. I got some good video of the waterfall in full torrent but I haven't worked out how to upload it. I see that you have put some footage of your waterfall up on Across the Way so perhaps you could help me?

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  4. How Brilliant!!!!!
    Congratulations!!!!!!
    Love the photographs! especial the wedding picture :o)

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    1. Val, I still have my wedding dress and my husband has a trunk full of his old uniform but when we thought of surprising the family by producing them we discovered that they had shrunk very badly! Best to just look at the old photos.

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    2. There is something about storage and shrinkage isn't there ....it's happened to my clothes too.....

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  5. Hello Maureen
    Have you come back down to earth yet? By the sounds of it with all that flitting here there and everywhere around the country there's no wonder you lost the tea towel - funnily I was going to ask if you'd put it in the wash lol
    Congratulations on the milestone - oooh and I do like a man in uniform. Snagged one for myself!
    Take care
    Cathy
    ps I had to have apeek in the dictionary for that big long word up the top lol

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    1. Hi Cathy
      You've given me a nice excuse for my absent-mindedness there - obviously I hadn't recovered from my holiday. That sounds far better than losing the marbles!
      As for the uniforms - you should have seen him in his tropical whites!

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  6. I was randomly distracted from your peregrination along the honeymoon trail by your words: "There has been a lot of cake." Congratulations on your decades long commitment. And, thanks to you, instead of finishing the laundry today, I am off to bake a cake!

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  7. I was randomly distracted from your peregrination along the honeymoon trail by your words: "There has been a lot of cake." Congratulations on your decades long commitment. And, thanks to you, instead of finishing the laundry today, I am off to bake a cake!

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    1. I don't know why your comment has appeared twice. I do hope that you won't blame me if it led to twice as much cake! Thank you for your good wishes.

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