Anniversaries

Today is our 53rd wedding anniversary. Here are a few pics taken around 20/3 over the last few years.

Le Manoir du Lys 2015

T booked a night at Le Manoir du Lys as a real treat – Michelin starred restaurant etc. Very sweet.

2016 – I think we stayed here with the Robert’s family on an Easter break. Otherwise I haven’t a clue what we were doing there. Near Tregastel and its wonderful beaches. T was not very well.

2017 Fleur’s hockey team and up the Clumps

2018 – we had 3 glorious sunny weeks in Crete and returned on our wedding anniversary. We had fled the Beast from the East as we departed, and H fled the Illis.

2019 – could only find a pic of H

2020 def not 2021 – we had moved house by 2021- this was taken in lockdown at BV. We sat in the garden so much in that lovely warm spring. Couldn’t go anywhere else!

2021 Golden wedding – in another lockdown – had a wonderful zoom tea party at the Illis shared with the Robert’s in Devon

Above is the pillow I used at night to relieve pain after my knee operation – I wrapped me and my legs in it.

2022 no remotely contemporary photos but chairs are enjoying the sun trap – even had one chair out there today. And I cut the grass.

2023 – can’t remember what we did! But there is a celebratory balloon !

By now, I was obviously taking H out more on my own.

And today – 20/3/24. No longer together.., but the memories remain and I will not forget this day. Pen’s card last year.

And back to the present… a pleasant day during which I chose not to go swimming but mowed the grass instead. It needs another cut to tame it properly. One section is more dandelion than grass. The dandelions received some granules destined to obliterate them.
I even sat in a chair down the garden briefly.

I went to the surgery for a routine blood test and am booked in for a routine medication review in a couple of weeks. And so you go in for one thing and it leads on to others…but then I haven’t seen a doc since the disastrous autumn of 2022.

H and I went to Pangbourne for a slippery walk. The meadows need another week or two of sunshine. But H was beside herself with excitement – it’s been a while. And it will be a while more. At least I managed to stay upright but you could see where floodwaters had hung around drowning the grass.
The Thames is very brown but its birds are out and about.