Afternoon Tea of 17 yearness

[bunn]

17 years ago yesterday, we got married.  So yesterday we decided to go up onto Dartmoor and eat afternoon tea and celebrate.  It wasn't great weather, but you don't need wonderful weather for afternoon tea.


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Pp winding the dogs up.

One of the good things about the Two Bridges, apart from the vastness of the teas, is that there's a nice comfy carpet for sighthounds to recline upon.


The tea was far too big for two humans to eat.  Even with the help of the hounds we had a few bits left over to take home.


Walking off *some* of it.



There were too many sheep about for Brythen to run about.  Poor Brythen.  I took them to the woods today instead so they had a chance to hare around.

Comments

[apel.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary guys. Seventeen years is definitely something.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary - and the dogs look as if they enjoyed your tea.

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and happy anniversary!

[timetiger.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! Brythen looks like that carpet was just made for him.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and best wishes to you both!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your anniversary. The tea looks superb.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It is: somehow we have avoided killing each other or flouncing off for a quite unfeasibly long time! :-D

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and yes, they did. (Rosie refused to eat her proper tea that evening, but then she had eaten a whole scone with clotted cream so it's not surprising really!)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Brythen is not quite Rosie levels of tea-demanding, but he does appreciate comfort.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Any excuse for an enormous tea is a good excuse, but on this occasion I feel we actually kind of had achieved something!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Thank you all!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

'Poor Brythen' seems to be the story of his life :) That looks a lovely carpet for rolling on, though.

Congratulations!

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful way to commemorate your anniversary; congratulations to you both! :-)

Glad the hounds enjoyed the carpet and the tea, and they got the chance to stretch their legs, eventually! :-)

[r-blackcat.livejournal.com]

Seventeen years?! That's great. Congratulations!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

We and the hounds were all very happy!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

A scarily long time really... : thanks!

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Belated congratulations on your anniversary! Looks like you all had a lovely day :)

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! We're at 23--it's sort of frightening to realize that our marriage is old enough to have graduated college and struck out on its own.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! And it looks like a great place to have afternoon tea at!

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

I love that shot of Brythen making himself at home! Now if only Max could be that relaxed when we go somewhere for tea...

[andrewducker]

Happy anniversary. That is some excellent facial hair.

[sally_maria]

Congratulations on your anniversary, and I'm glad the whole family was able to enjoy tea. :-)

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! And happy anniversary!

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the seventeen years!

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! I would like to celebrate things with dogs and fancy tea, that seems very nice.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! We did indeed!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Well THERE's an alarming thought. Or maybe not so alarming. Maybe these aging marriages are old enough to look after themselves without constantly clearing up after them...? :-D

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I'd love to claim that behaviour is something I'd carefully taught him, but the honest truth is that's what he does whenever he's bored. I vividly remember his first and only dog-show, when he did that and was very reluctant to stand up when the judge reached him. I concluded that beauty-pageants were not his cup of tea.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Pp will be delighted you think so ;-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I believe it to be one of the best ways to celebrate!

(we went to a more traditional 'party' party last night, loud music, lots of people I barely know, and OMG, my ears, my withered ability to make smalltalk with strangers!).

Tea with dogs is SO MUCH BETTER. :-D

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Well, we didn't bring the cats, and they are family too. But it is lovely to be able to take the dogs out and just have them accepted automatically. That place even provides towels in the porch so you can dry your dogs feet if they are muddy.

[chainmailmaiden]

I'm with you on the traditional party, I sit or stand there thinking "this is supposed to be fun??". Afternoon tea is far more appealing. A belated Happy Anniversary too :-) I'm getting a chance to catch up on LJ for once, but am still behind. There have been too many late nights this week even though I'm not doing proper work!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

You might have something there...the bulk of the marriages that I know of that have not lasted have been young ones, still in their infancies.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Belated Anniversary felicitations! I am genuinely surprised - my feeling at the time was that you got married quite a long time after we did, but from the perspective of 20 and 17 years respectively the difference seems very slight!

I recognised that as Two Bridges before you mentioned the name, hasn't changed much - I suppose to a place of that antiquity 20 years seems only a little time :-) We spent the first two days of our honeymoon there (before spending the rest in cheaper places!) - and looking back again to our foolish youth, I can't believe we thought it would be a good idea to set off from St. Hilda's about 6pm and drive to the middle of Dartmoor - in a mini! One of the particularly memorable parts of our stay was the truly vast cream tea we consumed, and there was definitely a lot of hiking up tors to walk the food off. We went back for our 5th anniversary, but alas at that time they had stopped doing cream teas :-( Since the children we haven't had a chance to come back, but I'd like to, especially with a tea like that as an incentive! We managed to go away overnight (my parents child-sitting) for our 20th this spring, but - no longer being young and foolish - decided not to try to drive to the middle of Dartmoor for one night and instead went to Bath :-) (There was a cream tea though, even if not a proper Devonian one.)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It hasn't changed much, although I'm told that they used to play all the antique record players on Sunday afternoons, and sadly now most of them are rather beyond being useable.

They definitely do cream teas again now (as well as Afternoon ones) and are very proud of them: really surprised to hear they ever stopped. We do various website things for them, and cream teas are a special thing they promote.