…from the outside.
Maybe next time I will get to see it from the inside
Archive for February, 2011
Filed under Holidays, Kent January 2011
The Royal Observatory…
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2011
Filed under Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
When one teaches, two learn.
Robert A. Heinlein
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
PhotoHunt – Mostly Black
Last weekend I briefly visited Wenlock Priory, which some of you will remember is one of my favourite places. The air within the grounds was distinctly chilly, much chillier than it was outside in the town. I must have been due to the overnight rainfall collecting in the earth, keeping the temperature cool.
This [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2011
Filed under This & That
Weight Loss – Week 30
I still seem to have not got back in gear after the holidays. I gained 1lb this week. We joked that I seemed to be maintaining rather than losing!
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2011
Filed under Art, Holidays, Kent January 2011
Figurehead from the Ship Implacable
This figurehead (Medusa) was taken from the ship implacable. This ship was originally named Duguay-Trouin which was a French ship that fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. Later it was captured by the British and renamed.*
*Information taken from museum literature.
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2011
Information on the Tarbat Ness lighthouse displayed at the museum:
Designed and installed in the lighthouse by David Stevenson, 1892.
The Tarbat Ness lighthouse was built in 1830 on the site of an ancient Roman fort at the mouth of the Moray Firth in north-east Scotland. It overlooks a wild and windy coast that, in local folklore, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2011
