Ten Years After

[perlmonger]

A week ago last Friday was 29th May, and the tenth anniversary of ramtops' and my wedding; the start of a marriage that nobody (and least of all ourselves :) expected to last over a year. TWOTY+10 was both an arbitrary date and yet a milestone; we were planning to have a major celebration: Boston, to echo the start of our honeymoon, or a weekend in Paris. The TSA stopped the first, and lack of funds really scuppered anything remotely exotic, so we just took the day off work and headed to the Exmoor falconry (a favourite place we first visited just before our 5th anniversary) and points nearby.

We stopped for a greasy spoon breakfast in Burnham on Sea, then headed on to Porlock (stopping and buying some asparagus, with some anticipation, at a farm shop along the way). We had a wander, then tea and scones in Porlock, before finding our way through the mesh of country lanes to the Falconry. Two flight displays - buzzard, vulture, owl and hawk, then after a break, an eagle - in the blazing sun. One day, we'll book ourselves a day there working with the birds.

We drove on to Porlock Weir in the late afternoon and had a wander on the beach and around the village before beer and (excellent) fish pie at the pub, before finally heading home.

A very good day indeed.