I was struggling for for inspiration for this theme, when I suddenly remembered that there was lots of music at the Women’s Chainmakers festival that I attended in September. We didn’t stay for all the music but this barbershop quartet were very good and also amusing.
There was also a brass band to lead the celebratory [...]
Archive for November, 2009
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PhotoHunt – Music
24 Comments CherryPie on Nov 13th 2009
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Chartwell – The Water Garden
This is one of Churchill’s favorite spots at Chartwell, a place where he loved to sit and rest, feed the goldfish or simply relax and paint. The view is much the same as when Churchill enjoyed it, although the trees that would have formed the backdrop to the scene were brought down in the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 12th 2009
Filed under Anecdotes
My Struggle with Photoshop
We are all being encouraged to have a bit of a sort out at work. There have been lots of desk moves since we successfully stopped our work being centralised in Bristol. We have been squeezed into a smaller space that has led to a lot of clutter which doesn’t look good when we are [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Nov 12th 2009
Filed under Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Chartwell – Home for Hedgehogs
These days it looks like the vegetables in the Old Kitchen Garden are not up to the task of supplying food for anyone, it seems like the slugs enjoy them too much. Maybe that is why they are advertising for a resident hedgehog
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2009
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At the Going Down of the Sun…
…and in the morning, we will remember them.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2009
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Chartwell – The Old Kitchen Garden
The Old Kitchen Garden used to supply Chartwell and during the war years No. 10 with fresh vegetables. The garden is surrounded by a sturdy red brick wall, which was laid by Churchill’s own fair hand:
He took justifiable pride in his skill and speed as a bricklayer: 90 bricks an hour was not uncommon. [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 10th 2009
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Twenty Years Ago Today
I find it hard to believe it is 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell, time flies by so quickly. I can remember the images so vividly, it only seems like yesterday!
The BBC report on how a blunder led to the downfall of the wall:
From the safe distance of 20 years, the opening of the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 9th 2009
