Ideas for a 5th wedding anniversary

Waaah, a quick Google tells me it's "wood." I know what Mr Clairy would say to that ?

You got married the day after me, Clairy!

Did I?! How spooky. We're almost twinnies ?

Happy anniversary for next week. So, what are the planned festivities chez Hole?

5th is indeed wood. We had the garden at the house landscaped (It included removing a lot of trees) and called that our present to each other.

To be honnest we haven't bothered with proper gifts since our first anniversary.

I've arranged a babysitter but for what I don't know yet, I was going to book tickets for an exhibition then go for a fancy curry, but everytime I book something it tends to go down like a fart in a spacesuit. So....I'm leaving it to Mr Hole and hoping not to be disappointed.

For a control freak like me that's a BIG deal ?

No, neither have we. I just wanted to do something special.

Oh you got married the same day as me - 25th October 2003!! I have a feeling we may have 'spoken' leading up to the wedding on the other side - confetti? If I can mention that here!! I did not know 5 years was wood!

We will prob just go out for a meal as we are skint!!

A tree is a good present for wood. Either a sapling or (if budget is tight) why not plant an acorn or a conker? ? Actually is it sapling-planting time? I've no idea. It is conker time though!

I gave my husband a pen set made of yew from a fab guy who makes them to order from your choice of wood- google "the jolly scot". It's very reasonable- about £40 for a pen or something like that, which is not bad given the quality and the fact you can have whatever you want. He also does lovely inlaid wooden boxes and things like that.

For our 5th wedding anniversary we went to the Botanical Gardens for afternoon tea. It was the most 'wood' thing I could think of and it was lovely. I guess it depends on what you both like though.

If the weather is decent, you could have a romantic picnic on a woody walk somewhere?

Yes, that was our wedding date - how completely spooky! Yes, I did used to post on the dark side (but then so did Nick, remember that? ?) did you get married in a castle?

I am loving the idea of a woodland picnic, and the tree thang. Mr Clairy has green fingers, so he'd love that