…and other work related matters.
One of my PCS colleagues sent me an email about a forthcoming meeting and asked me to let other members of the PCS Shropshire group know when it was taking place. The email also said that on no account should I forward the original email out to the group. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 27th 2010
Filed under Crookham 2009, Heritage, Holidays
Preston Tower
Preston Tower is a 14th-century Pele Tower and was built in 1392, when warfare between England and Scotland was endemic.
At the time of Agincourt in 1415, it was one of 78 Pele Towers in the county. Its owners included Sir Guiscard Harbottle, who was slain fighting against James IV at the battle of Flodden in [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Reflecting on…
…humour or thoughtlessness
Last week one of the girls at work was commenting that the youngest member of our team will soon be turning 20. Then she went on to remark that she was old enough to be his mother and I was old enough to by his grandmother. I know I have joked in [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2010
Filed under Crookham 2009, Holidays
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
The Old Joint Stock
After my Trade Union business on Thursday I decided to stay in the city for an evening meal to save the bother of cooking when I got home. I ended up in The Old Joint Stock, a Fuller’s Ale and Pie House.
The grade two listed building, built in 1864 was originally a library before it [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2010
Filed under This & That
PhotoHunt – Balanced
Maybe it is stretching the point, but I can see lots of balance in this photograph. It was taken yesterday after my regional (trade union) committee meeting. I had hoped to take quite a few photographs in the city, but as you can see from this photo the light was failing and it [...]
46 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2010
Filed under Science & Nature
Slime Could Help Engineers
One of the interesting creatures that I learned about when I attended Christopher Lloyd’s lecture at the Royal Institution was the slime mould. He explained how individual pieces joined together to find the quickest, most efficient way through a maze to reach food that had been placed at the entrances. Over at the BBC I [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2010
