Where did it go?

Our 30^th wedding anniversary looms – next week (it’s Pearl since you’re asking) - and MTL asked what I’d like to do. I wondered if we had had too much excitement recently and perhaps we should have a quiet night in. I gave it serious thought – for a whole 30 seconds - and then thought what I’d really, really like to do.

Two things I miss – going to the cinema (60 mile round trip) and shopping which means a trip to Taunton but if we spent a night in an hotel near Taunton we could kill three birds with one stone – another favourite pursuit of mine which drives MTL to distraction. It did seem selfish to do just what I wanted to do but when I questioned MTL he said that it was what he wanted also. I’m not sure about the shopping but if it comes to pass I’ll make sure he’s comfortably settled in a cafe with the paper.

There are two hotels in the Taunton area where we have had pleasant stays – Mount Somerset which is quite grand and The Farthings which we settled on. I don’t know how to do a link to a particular post – must learn – but if you look up November 26th 2007 in the archives you’ll see why we chose it.

There is a particular film which I long to see: Jane Campion’s Bright Star – said to be her best since The Piano. It is about the poet John Keats and his love Fanny Brawne and stars Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish (both new to me) and Kerry Fox – an old favourite. Of course the film may not be showing on the particular day and torrential rain will preclude shopping but the hotel is booked and that’s the plan.