On Saturday 12th September I attended the 5th Women’s Chainmakers Festival with friends. The event took place at the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley and is held annually to commemorate the struggle of the women chainmakers to earn a decent living wage. This year’s festival celebrated the 99th anniversary of their success.
In 1910 the women [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Filed under Out & About
Women Chainmakers Festival 2009
13 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2009
Filed under Anecdotes
The Dreaded…
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For some reason the server where my blog is hosted decided to stop working on Friday for the second time in 6 weeks! My service provider advise that they provide 24/7 customer support, but I have [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2009
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
18 Comments CherryPie on Sep 13th 2009
Filed under This & That
PhotoHunt – Electric
Yesterday, Radio 2 made me smile when it announced that Autumn had arrived 4 weeks early. I have been saying that for a couple of weeks. Do you think that the Radio 2 presenters read my blog?
Yesterday was also the day for visiting my opticians for an eye test. I had received [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 12th 2009
Filed under Books
Saturday by Ian McEwan
This was one of my book group reads. Tonight is the first meeting after the summer break and the group will be discussing their thoughts on the book. As I have been off sick for a couple of days with the lurgy I decided it was safer to stay at home and chill out a [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 10th 2009
Filed under Gardens, Science & Nature
My Garden in Autumn
Autumn Fires
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
Robert Louis Stevenson
20 Comments CherryPie on Sep 9th 2009
Filed under Heritage
Flodden Field
The photographs in yesterday’s blog post were taken at Flodden Field, which over the years has witnessed many battles between the English and the Scots. One of the most famous battles was the Battle of Braxton Moor which is more commonly known as the Battle of Flodden Field. It is hard to believe that such [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 8th 2009
