A Simple Life of Luxury

Our final stop of the day on our anniversary was The Frame House in Borth.

Instead of buying each other anniversary cards and presents we had decided to treat ourselves to a nice picture for the wall. We didn’t really know what we wanted so we stopped off to have a look for something suitable. The Frame House was looking good with its new coffee shop and we saw quite a few paintings and photos that we liked, but then we spotted a really nice one of the beach opposite our house with a few kites in it.

It was an original by a local artist called Eve Smith so was a little more money than we had intended to spend, but after a little bit of decision making we decided it was better to spend a little more on something special rather than just buy something suitable. Lets just hope Eve makes name for herself and it ends up being worth even more!

Continuing our anniversary day out we headed off to Llanerchaeron House near Aberaeron. This is a National Trust property so it isn’t cheap to get in but we decided that it was our anniversary so we may as well treat ourselves and have a look round, especially seeing as I’m into gardens at the moment anyway.

We wandered around the gardens and the lake and then had a look round the house. The house itself isn’t huge but it was interesting. We were actually more interested in the service areas out the back of the house rather than the luxurious living areas.

The gardens were nice too, if only we had a little more protection from the wind here. Of course, being a National Trust property they did try to get us to join. We would if there were more National Trust properties in the area, but a family membership is quite expensive and with nothing else to visit around here it just wouldn’t be worth it for us.

At least I remembered to take some photos for a change!

All in all a nice day out together.

Llanerchaeron Walled Gardens

Lake at Llanerchaeron

Formal Rose Garden

It was our wedding anniversary on Thursday so although we felt a little guilty about it we sent Morgan off to nursery as usual and had a day out together.

Typically I had come down with the dreaded lurgy the night before so wasn’t feeling great and the weather didn’t look too good to start with either. First we drove to Aberaeron but as it was pouring with rain decided to continue down the coast towards New Quay. We stopped off at a little garden centre in Llanart and had a wander round then dodged the showers in New Quay before heading off to the nearby Honey Farm for some lunch.

We hadn’t been to the honey farm before and although small it was a pleasant place to stop. We had a cream tea here and a little look around. They have a nice little picnic area, a tea room, an exhibition and a meadery. I discovered that the term ‘Honeymoon’ comes from the fact that honey was considered an aphrodisiac and was given to newlyweds for a lunar month after their wedding, hence the term honeymoon… Quite an appropriate thing to learn on our anniversary.

The weather had brightened up by now and it was actually a lovely day. The wind had picked up too so had I been feeling well enough I would have been dying to get out for a windsurf but as it was we headed back towards Aberaeron and off to Llanerchaeron House.