Comments on: Cragside – Revisited http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:23:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6071 CherryPie Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:09:02 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6071 I think you would enjoy a photo opportunity there. I think you would enjoy a photo opportunity there.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6070 CherryPie Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:08:24 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6070 There is so much to see and do there :-) There is so much to see and do there :-)

]]> By: jams O'Donnell http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6066 jams O'Donnell Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:01:18 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6066 It is an utterly beautiful place. Thanks for your excellent photographs It is an utterly beautiful place. Thanks for your excellent photographs

]]> By: Ellee http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6063 Ellee Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:27:06 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6063 This is definitely the kind of place I would like to go to. This is definitely the kind of place I would like to go to.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6062 CherryPie Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:45:34 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6062 Perhaps we both are a little psychic. I do remember your previous comment and the way you have described the trees had brought them vividly to light in my mind. I have never seen a sunset like it in this country before. The sky was orange and the sun was a bright orange disc gradually changing to an intense red colour. There wasn't I cloud in the sky so the sun was a perfect circle with a different shade of orangey/red behind it. Thank you for sharing your experience and for you kind words and thoughts. Perhaps we both are a little psychic.

I do remember your previous comment and the way you have described the trees had brought them vividly to light in my mind. I have never seen a sunset like it in this country before. The sky was orange and the sun was a bright orange disc gradually changing to an intense red colour. There wasn’t I cloud in the sky so the sun was a perfect circle with a different shade of orangey/red behind it.

Thank you for sharing your experience and for you kind words and thoughts.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6060 CherryPie Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:30:23 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6060 :-) :-)

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6059 CherryPie Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:29:50 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6059 Thank you :-) It is a very interesting place to visit and there is lots to see. Thank you :-) It is a very interesting place to visit and there is lots to see.

]]> By: JD http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6057 JD Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:45:59 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6057 You must be psychic or maybe I am. When you posted your sad news, I thought of Cragside. You may recall, in an earlier comment, that I used to drive along the road past Cragside. It was at a time in my life that matched exactly your situation now. My father was in hospital in Morpeth and I knew he would not return. But along that road every day beside the river Coquet the colours in the trees were almost New England in their intensity and not just the colours. There was a vibrancy, a clarity about everything. What you saw as you drove home from the hospital was the same as what I saw, as if the veil that shrouds the world had lifted briefly. Gerard Manley Hopkins says it better than I can - "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;" People will say to you that 'time is a great healer' but that is not so. It is a trite cliche. I just posted at Calum's place about how we need to listen to the minstrels and poets of the world. And one of them, Willie Nelson, declares that unlike time "love's the greatest healer to be found." He's right you know but it is in the giving of love that it will be found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p610TdtyjYs&feature=related Take care and vaya con Dios You must be psychic or maybe I am.
When you posted your sad news, I thought of Cragside.
You may recall, in an earlier comment, that I used to drive along the road past Cragside. It was at a time in my life that matched exactly your situation now. My father was in hospital in Morpeth and I knew he would not return. But along that road every day beside the river Coquet the colours in the trees were almost New England in their intensity and not just the colours. There was a vibrancy, a clarity about everything.
What you saw as you drove home from the hospital was the same as what I saw, as if the veil that shrouds the world had lifted briefly. Gerard Manley Hopkins says it better than I can –
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;”

People will say to you that ‘time is a great healer’ but that is not so. It is a trite cliche. I just posted at Calum’s place about how we need to listen to the minstrels and poets of the world. And one of them, Willie Nelson, declares that unlike time “love’s the greatest healer to be found.” He’s right you know but it is in the giving of love that it will be found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p610TdtyjYs&feature=related

Take care and vaya con Dios

]]> By: jameshigham http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6056 jameshigham Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:43:39 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6056 That's a nice way to go about it. That’s a nice way to go about it.

]]> By: Welshcakes Limoncello http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/24/cragside-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-6054 Welshcakes Limoncello Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:02:12 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=3084#comment-6054 Lovely places and I'm sure your Dad enjoyed them. Thinking of him where he was happiest will help you, dear friend. Lovely places and I’m sure your Dad enjoyed them. Thinking of him where he was happiest will help you, dear friend.

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