On Saturday I went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Weston Park. It was one of those occasions where you turn up early and do a posh picnic, so we did. As soon as the food was all laid out it started to rain!!! Out came the fishing and golfing umbrellas which kept us [...]
Archive for June, 2009
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More Pictures from Chatham
I was asked by Welshcakes what the second photograph in my Armed Forces Day post represented. I was just in the middle of this post with some basic information on the memorial, when I had an email alert telling me that I had a comment on my previous post. The comment was from Tom, whose [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 29th 2009
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2009
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PhotoHunt – Flags
Campaigning through the years:
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
27 Comments CherryPie on Jun 27th 2009
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Pictures from Chatham
The Historic Dockyard at Chatham is the venue for the first ever Armed Forces Day which takes place tomorrow. It is an opportunity for the Nation to show support for men and women who make up the armed forces community. The National event has proved so popular it has sold out but there are many [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Jun 26th 2009
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Palestine; Personal Perspectives
At a recent Trades Council meeting we had a talk from a member who had been on a sponsored visit to Palestine. He showed us slides of the village of Aboud, which is where he stayed. Aboud is cut off from the hills and fields around it by the “Separation Wall”, which means that children [...]
28 Comments CherryPie on Jun 24th 2009
