Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
Robert A. Heinlein
Archive for May, 2011
Filed under Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
12 Comments CherryPie on May 15th 2011
Filed under Bruges 2010, Holidays
PhotoHunt – Missing/Missed
There seem to be a few items of clothing missing for a plane journey and I am wondering what is inside the case… Well at least it looks like she hasn’t missed her flight
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
PS: Note the change of url to tnchick’s blog, it [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
Cedars of Lebanon Revisited
The Lebanese Cedars are magnificent, I can remember the days when I could walk beneath their boughs and enjoy them in there glory. Now they are fragile and can only be viewed and enjoyed from a distance…
It reminds me very much of my first visit to Stonehenge where I was able to look up [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2011
Filed under This & That
Weight Loss – Week 41
A gain of 0.5lb this week.
10 Comments CherryPie on May 12th 2011
Filed under This & That
The Song of the Bluebell Fairy
My hundred thousand bells of blue,
The splendour of the spring,
They carpet all the woods anew
With royalty of sapphire hue;
The Primrose is the Queen ’tis true
But surely I am King.
Ah yes,
The peerless woodland King.
Cicely Mary Parker
10 Comments CherryPie on May 12th 2011
Filed under Out & About
The Sweetest of Flowers
The bluebell is the sweetest of flowers,
That waves in summer air;
Its blossoms have the mightiest power,
To sooth my spirit’s care.
Emily Bronte
12 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2011
