The money that was received from friends in memory of my Dad was donated to the Heart Foundation and the Lingen Davies Cancer Relief Fund. The latter showed their appreciation by sending my Mum a certificate that entitled her to a memorial rose from a specialist rose centre near to the hospital. As today would [...]
Archive for July, 2010
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The Magical Mystery Tour
24 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2010
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Burton Agnes Hall – The Drawing-rooms
The first photograph shows the Elizabethan carving above the chimney-piece in the Red Drawing-room:
The main panel is a gruesome Dance of Death, showing a skeleton trampling on the symbols of earthly vanity, such as a papal crown, orb and sceptre, mitre, weapons of war, etc. The figures on either side are the Just, being received [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2010
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Burton Agnes Hall – The Great Hall
The first room you see when you enter Burton Agnes Hall is the Great Hall. It features fine Elizabethan carving, plasterwork and panelling:
The figures – biblical, allegorical and mythological – are far too numerous to catalogue, and in the screen alone there are angels, a crusading knight, Elizabethan ladies, the Twelve Apostles (these in narrow [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2010
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Burton Agnes Hall – The Manor-house
Before we move on to exploring the interior of Burton Agnes Hall I will show you what is remaining of the original manor-house. The brick building in the foreground of the first picture looks quite modern, but it conceals a surprise which you can see in the third photo. The brick cladding was put was [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Jul 12th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -”Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling, “The Glory of the Garden”
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 11th 2010
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In Search of the Towton Rose
Earlier this week the Shropshire Star published an article about Shrewsbury Museums curator, Peter Boyd’s, quest to find the long lost Towton Rose. It is reported to have grown in its hundreds on the graves of the fallen in the in the Battle of Towton that took place during the Wars of the Roses. [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 10th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Free
Some definitions of free: Not bound – at liberty – not under arbitrary government – not strict or bound by rules – not literal – unimpeded – unconstrained.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull when he discovers the technique of flying:
How much more there is now to living! Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the [...]
42 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2010
