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[arliss]

Missed my LJ-versary by two days! It's a milestone, too--ten years. Lotsa changes to LJ, and to my life, in ten years, but we're both still here. So many friends found, a few lost along the way, so much discussion of topics from important social and political ones to trivial matters of nail polish and tea things, so much fannish discovery and discourse, meta and art and fic, in so many fandoms. My life would be so very vastly different without the influence LJ and the people I've gotten to know here have had on it, on me.

For all its disturbing and frustrating changes, LJ always holds a special place in my affections. I almost can't quite dare hope our love affair will last another decade, but I can't *not* have that hope, either. Happy Anniversary to us!

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[fufaraw]

Oh goodness, that's so pretty! And thank you. Join me?

[maiac.livejournal.com]

My pleasure!

Here's where the tea is served:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/maiac/35494796/)

[fufaraw]

That's just enchanting--all those cozy English novels and movies come to life!

[maiac.livejournal.com]

The cottage was built in the Cotswolds in the 17th century. When Henry and Clara Ford visited England, she was so taken with the traditional Cotswold architecture that Henry bought a cottage to have it disassembled, shipped, and reassembled on their estate so she could have tea with her friends in a "traditional English" setting. (When you're the richest man in the world, you can do things like that.) When he founded Greenfield Village, he included the cottage in it, but the outdoor tea room has only been there for the last few years.