I posted a cropped version of Malmesbury Abbey entrance a few weeks ago. I cropped the photo because a garbage can was spoiling the view.
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Archive for July, 2009
Filed under Anecdotes
Floozy in the Jacuzzi
I had a brief meeting in the PCS Regional office this afternoon. We were discussing the latest newsletter, which by default and inaction (from the rest of the editorial team) was left to me to collect the latest articles.
I thought I was going to be taught how to produce/collate the newsletter. I was quite [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2009
I have now finished reading the Morville Hours which I quoted from in my post yesterday. So what did I think of it?
Synopsys (from book cover):
Katherine Swift takes the reader on a journey through time, back to the forces which shaped the garden, linking the history of those who lived in the same Shropshire house [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Jul 8th 2009
Earlier today I came across this passage in the The Morville Hours. It gave me pause for thought, so I thought I would share it with you.
The wearing of scarlet poppies and the laying of poppy wreaths on Remembrance Day dates from 1921, though the sheets of poppies which covered the battlefields of France [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 7th 2009
Filed under This & That
Governments I Have Worked For
Just for fun from the CSRF magazine:
James Callaghan – Labour, 1976-79
Foreign Secretary: Tony Crosland, Dr David Owen.
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Denis Healey.
Home Secretary: Roy Jenkins, Merlyn Rees.
Margaret Thatcher – Conservative, 1979-90
Foreign Secretary: Lord Carrington, Francis Pym, Sir Geoffry Howe, John Major, Douglas Hurd.
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson, John Major.
Home Secretary: Willie [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 6th 2009
Filed under Heritage
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
20 Comments CherryPie on Jul 5th 2009
Filed under Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
PhotoHunt – Pink
I will be busy for most of tomorrow so I am posting my PhotoHunt early (for me). Hopefully my PCS colleagues and I will be having a fun day campaigning, with a little bit of socialising to follow Wish us luck!
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
20 Comments CherryPie on Jul 3rd 2009
