Archive for June, 2011
Filed under This & That
History Recalls
8th June 1941:
The British entered Syria this morning.
From the Orwell Diaries.
4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 8th 2011
Filed under Out & About
A Change in the Weather
By the time I had done the circuit of the pool some rain clouds had gathered and it started spotting with rain. I retreated to the tea room and had a glass of cranberry presse and no I didn’t have anything else
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 7th 2011
Filed under Gardens, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
Robert A. Heinlein
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 5th 2011
I enrolled on a photography course, courtesy of a voucher when I purchased my new camera last year I was struggling with the settings, which apart from taking flowers in AV mode (my speciality) I hadn’t quite grasped without the auto settings.
Today was a day to remember and re-learn photography techniques. The [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jun 5th 2011
