Synopsis (from book cover):
Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and by Buddhism. Accompanied by a television crew, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there.
Despite half a century of Communist rule, the residents [...]
Archive for August, 2009
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A Year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2009
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
20 Comments CherryPie on Aug 23rd 2009
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An Englishman’s Home…
… is his castle.
I am currently reading a book called The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. It is a true story of the mystery behind the gruesome murder of a child in a quiet family house in Wiltshire during 1860. The crime in fact inspired the classic Victorian detective novel.
The following quote appears towards [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2009
Filed under Holidays, Malmesbury 2009, Out & About
PhotoHunt – Ripples
This family of moorhens really didn’t want to be photographed. I had to follow them all round the pool, they kept escaping to the opposite side from where I was. There were in fact a few more chicks in the family but they were well hidden in the reeds at the edge of [...]
30 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2009
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
I Leave My Heart in an English Garden
I leave my heart in an English garden,
Safe where the elm and the oak stand by.
Tho’ the years rise and roll away
Still shall those watchmen stay,
Bold in the blue of an English sky.
Breezes in the long grass ruffling my hair,
Hollyhock and bluebell scenting the air,
Nothing in the world can ever be
Such a sweet memory:
Nothing in [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2009
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Armed Forces Day Planning
The latest edition of DefenceFocus reports on how the very first Armed Forces Day event was planned.
The day was conceived due to a desire to include armed forces members who are still serving their country into the Veterans Day celebrations. This idea was supported by a petition on the Number10 website, which led to the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 19th 2009
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Synopsis:
Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape – of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 18th 2009
