Our 2025 Wedding Anniversary theme… we’ve got wood!

Stop sniggering at the back.

As regular readers know, back in the mists of time, we decided to dump the traditional dull wedding anniversaries here at The Secret Acre, in favour of our own list of anniversary themes of things we like, that would make celebrating each year fun.

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Season’s Greetings from the 2023 Museum Miners!

Wishing all our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Like many people, we are no longer sending Christmas Cards, in favour of donating the money to charity instead. You have to follow our posts here for all our news through the year.

So we thought we’d end 2023 then, with these pictures from our ‘Museum’ anniversary year!

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Tap’y New Year

If you were with us this time last year, you will know that Emma and I decide to dump the traditional first 24 wedding anniversaries – the rubbish ones like ‘paper’ and ‘glue’ which come before the serious bling – in favour of our own list of things we actually like.

So we wrote down 12 each and randomly assigned them into the 24 draws of a repurposed advent calendar, to be opened at the start of each year. Continue reading