tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post8059095685036898805..comments2024-03-28T22:42:31.293+00:00Comments on Down by the sea: Retracing our footstepsDown by the seahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148800326418238027noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-48413186170442365212015-07-20T09:14:42.948+01:002015-07-20T09:14:42.948+01:00How lovely to go back and find your home more beau...How lovely to go back and find your home more beautiful than before! I took my son back to some of my childhood haunts in Cornwall a few years ago, goodness what a difference! The peaceful Cornwall and empty beaches of my childhood were replaced with beach shops and crowded car parks, although I didn't mind that the roads are easier now! Devon is a lovely county and your photos reminded me of the stream near my family home on the edge of Dartmoor above Plymouth. Congratulations on 30 years together, I bet the time has flown past! Caro xxCarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11317388242574705433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-10666746380673363342015-07-19T05:04:17.486+01:002015-07-19T05:04:17.486+01:00This is a lovely place, Sarah, and the fact that i...This is a lovely place, Sarah, and the fact that it has personal meaning must make it even more so. Happy Anniversary!<br />Amalia<br />xo<br />handmade by amaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15589172037052603746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-73472931163573305342015-07-18T17:45:04.890+01:002015-07-18T17:45:04.890+01:00Congratulations on your 30th wedding anniversary S...Congratulations on your 30th wedding anniversary Sarah! How beautiful to relive together some special moments of your common life. Your photos are really magnificent and I laughed with Tavi's outfit in the last photo!<br />My fond wishes and rendez-vous at the end of summer.<br />OlympiaThings and Thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10315714666630050229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-45472500364252902032015-07-18T09:33:42.302+01:002015-07-18T09:33:42.302+01:00Hi Sarah!
First of all, congratulations on your ...Hi Sarah! <br /><br />First of all, congratulations on your 30th wedding anniversary. Such fun to retrace your steps from 30 years ago. No, I can't remember us doing something similar ever but we do often say, we'll have to go there once again, so maybe sometime. <br /><br />I just had a look at your last posts and I'm once again amazed by the beauty of your country. I would so much love to visit all those wonderful places and gardens in Great Britain. <br /><br />You asked if there were a lot of visitors in the garden of Monet. There were! But I try not to have anyone in the pictures. Sometimes you're lucky, on other spots not so. With the bridge in the waterlily garden there's more often someone on it than there isn't. Wait and see if I got that lucky shot when there wasn't anyone on it for just a moment and all other persons were behind hidden behind the plants that grow along the pond ;)<br />The effect on the pictures was just softening them a bit. With a lot of sun, the shadows are often very hard and then it doesn't look as I saw it in reality and I think Monet's garden did look like a painting, it really does. But a lot of gardens in England must look that way as well. I haven't visited any gardens there yet. Hopefully in the future.<br /><br />Have a great weekend,<br />Marianflowersandhomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262453899981838266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-33785181185084389872015-07-18T07:18:55.205+01:002015-07-18T07:18:55.205+01:00Belated congratulations to you both x Belated congratulations to you both x rusty duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12238493821002258459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-92006802374888274982015-07-18T06:40:21.837+01:002015-07-18T06:40:21.837+01:00What a lovely thing to do - very romantic re-visit...What a lovely thing to do - very romantic re-visiting all those places - and how that garden has changed over the years. Lovely pictures, especially the one of Tavi in black and white - what a rascal.elaine https://www.blogger.com/profile/17075935631756457901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-68933630809291107982015-07-17T18:55:57.763+01:002015-07-17T18:55:57.763+01:00First of all, happy anniversary and congratulation...First of all, happy anniversary and congratulations on a wonderful milestone! Second, oh my, the very mention of cream tea does something inside my heart and makes me long for that piece of culture I once experienced in the UK but don't do a very good job replicating in my daily American life. Third, how special that you got to visit your old home!! Those then-and-now pictures were amazing! Thank you for sharing about this wonderful trip.Mary Anne's Alaskahttp://www.akmaryanne.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-86692994161862854232015-07-16T07:55:02.060+01:002015-07-16T07:55:02.060+01:00What a lovely anniversary trip. The roses in the ...What a lovely anniversary trip. The roses in the fourth picture are beautiful. Why do dogs love rolling in disgusting things? Lottie has a thing for pigeon poo! Debbie xserendipityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554603552983182516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-959311256048308042015-07-15T22:23:21.444+01:002015-07-15T22:23:21.444+01:00Dear Sarah,
Congratulations on your 30th Annivers...Dear Sarah,<br /><br />Congratulations on your 30th Anniversary and I enjoyed seeing all your gorgeous photos - lovely ones of you.<br />Glad that you were able to retrace where you went and such wonderful memories you both must have.<br />January, 2016 will be our 30 years too - don't the years fly by so fast.<br />Tavi is so very cute and interesting how they think they smell lovely with eau de pong.<br />Hope you have a lovely Thursday<br />hugs<br />CarolynDraffin Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01448539647442095635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-15870828996626926582015-07-15T13:46:55.623+01:002015-07-15T13:46:55.623+01:00Hello Sarah,
Happy 30th Anniversary to you and you...Hello Sarah,<br />Happy 30th Anniversary to you and your Husband. What a lovely photo of you. What a sweet little dog you had back then too. The grounds have grown so beautiful. What a wonderful way to celebrate a happy occasion. <br />Tavi is so adorable. : ) Looks like he keep you on your toes too. <br /><br />More loveliness a Lambrook manor. Those poppies are amazing. Thank you for sharing your beautiful memories with us. Thank you also for visiting me on my blog also.<br />Have a lovely day.<br />Blessings,<br />Bobbie LynnBobbie Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13734281504628586990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-80789118548701930872015-07-14T23:53:18.851+01:002015-07-14T23:53:18.851+01:00Happy Anniversary Sarah, and what a magical way to...Happy Anniversary Sarah, and what a magical way to spend it! I love the photos of you in the gardens from the past and in the present. Really great! All your photos are wonderful and make me want to go there.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02476181295259115670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-44835601695935673902015-07-14T07:27:50.120+01:002015-07-14T07:27:50.120+01:00Lovely memories especially of your college days at...Lovely memories especially of your college days at the hostel. It must be quite strange seeing it look so different and attractive! Sarah xDown by the seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06148800326418238027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-54665289702445402222015-07-14T06:58:25.854+01:002015-07-14T06:58:25.854+01:00Lovely garden ... gorgeous photos ... adorable Tav...Lovely garden ... gorgeous photos ... adorable Tavi ... Happy Anniversary!<br /><br />We have been married 44 years during college spring break. For our honeymoon, we went for 3 days to San Francisco, came home and headed out with a group of friends on a ski adventure to Mammoth Mountain. For our 41st anniversary, we repeated the Sand Francisco and the Mammoth vacation during my spring break.Art and Sandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09070124859845536964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-2753528138004674912015-07-14T06:43:41.270+01:002015-07-14T06:43:41.270+01:00Congratulations to both of you. All your pictures ...Congratulations to both of you. All your pictures are lovely but the ones of Tavi made me laugh out loud. How cute is he? Wonderful xxxFranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08117681021989984923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-42181538766502536602015-07-14T00:17:12.054+01:002015-07-14T00:17:12.054+01:00Many good wishes for your Anniversary ...
What a l...Many good wishes for your Anniversary ...<br />What a lovely post with some great photo's - you had good weather too.<br /><br />Best Wishes for the coming week ahead.<br /><br />All the best JanLowcarb team memberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07961199165290289611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-23146038171212267712015-07-13T23:46:34.759+01:002015-07-13T23:46:34.759+01:00Happy Anniversary. Like you, growing up I also liv...Happy Anniversary. Like you, growing up I also lived on an estate in Cornwall which in those days was not open to visitors daily as it is now, so my dog and I had the grounds to ourselves a lot of the time. I visit it all the time when I go back home as I will always call it. On the way down to Cornwall, we often stop at a hotel in Bath which used to be my college dorm in the first and third year. It has been beautifully renovated, but we always get a kick out of having a drink by "our fireplace" which is where we first met at a party the girls' hostel gave after our first teaching practice. The fancy basement restaurant also makes me smile as that was our laundry area where drying racks on pulleys lined the ceiling. Still we love to walk down the street and follow the alley to Milsom Street where we wandered as hard up students. Going back is so nostalgic.Lynnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-45979897212079053722015-07-13T22:15:41.980+01:002015-07-13T22:15:41.980+01:00Harry the Dirty Dog brings back memories! Just dis...Harry the Dirty Dog brings back memories! Just discussed it with my daughter we still have the book somewhere we will have to find it and compare Harry with Tavi! Sarah xDown by the seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06148800326418238027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-37452452213844593722015-07-13T21:39:53.087+01:002015-07-13T21:39:53.087+01:00Happy Anniversary to you both! Later this year we ...Happy Anniversary to you both! Later this year we will have been together for 30 years, definitely something to celebrate! Your photos of the beautiful gardens are delightful, and I laughed when I saw Tavi looking like 'Harry the Dirty Dog'. That Dartmoor river looks very appealing on this humid day!<br />Cathy xThe House with the Blue Doorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427149486706803890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-29988613478075763392015-07-13T20:48:33.167+01:002015-07-13T20:48:33.167+01:00Wonderful x It's always Palma de Mallorca for ...Wonderful x It's always Palma de Mallorca for us xBadPennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09889591351222591488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-87828543477344601992015-07-13T19:12:32.916+01:002015-07-13T19:12:32.916+01:00Happy Anniversary to you both Sarah. And yes, we d...Happy Anniversary to you both Sarah. And yes, we do return to the same special places when we have special things to celebrate.<br /><br />Tavi looks very pleased with himself there :o)Annie Cholewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608057589525908147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-53840879693753447912015-07-13T18:58:57.403+01:002015-07-13T18:58:57.403+01:00Dear Sarah,
Congratulations on your 30th wedding ...Dear Sarah,<br /><br />Congratulations on your 30th wedding anniversary! You chose a beautiful spot to celebrate at. Lovely photo's of then and now! And what a beautiful garden.<br /><br />Wishing you many more happy years together! Have a good week.<br /><br />Madelief xMadeliefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05906326152435858221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-55338553140643856552015-07-13T17:30:16.971+01:002015-07-13T17:30:16.971+01:00Happy anniversary Sarah! Well I haven't been ...Happy anniversary Sarah! Well I haven't been back to Paternoster in the Cape where husband proposed,and we got married, but we took our children on holiday to Mevagissey where I holidayed for so many years as a young child and which I remembered fondly...they loved it...Tavi looks like he enjoyed his time away too! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00940714462495777436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-19708145791089196222015-07-13T16:40:31.592+01:002015-07-13T16:40:31.592+01:00It is just so lovely where you live. That puppy do...It is just so lovely where you live. That puppy dog is too cute waiting for his ice cream! Tavi is adorable even covered in black goop. Seawashedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00299816851144887705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-49143990813838469652015-07-13T16:29:30.987+01:002015-07-13T16:29:30.987+01:00Happy Anniversary and how lovely to retrace your s...Happy Anniversary and how lovely to retrace your steps! :) xxxVintage Sheet Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027266547200808397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522710068688445614.post-15392108514516193192015-07-13T15:19:09.709+01:002015-07-13T15:19:09.709+01:00What a wonderful anniversary! My husband was in th...What a wonderful anniversary! My husband was in the Air Force for 20 years and we've moved many times so going back to special places often involves a plant ticket. Devon looks so beautiful. :)Casa Mariposahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647089868277238456noreply@blogger.com