I saw this whilst I was out and about today, it gave me a chuckle which I was in need of. But where did I see it?
I wonder how many take advantage of the service?
Archive for January, 2010
Filed under Out & About
Out and About
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2010
Originally Darwin tried to rear tropical plants within a plant case that he had bought for the drawing room. Unfortunately the plant case was too small and some of the more exotic blooms failed, so he erected a hothouse.
In the early 1860s, he erected a hothouse alongside the green house in the kitchen garden [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Down House
On the way back from my trip to Kent last October I met up with friends at Down House, the home of Charles Darwin from 1842 until his death in 1882.
The experience was not as enjoyable as the other places I had been visiting and at first I couldn’t quite put my finger on what [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2010
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Knole
Knole is the home of the Sackville family and was the childhood home of Vita Sackville-West and she loved it with a passion. The house passed down through the male line of the family so due to a technicality Vita was unable to inherit the house:
‘Sissinghurst and and St Loup are my spiritual [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
What a stressful morning! At least the sun has come out now reminding me that soon I will be able to get out and about enjoying gardens again. In the meanwhile I still have the photographs from previous garden visits. These were taken at Sissinghurst which is a garden in a ruin [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2010
