Archive for August, 2012

Filed under Anecdotes

A Sad Day…

…the last of the Don Nuno has entered the building.

Lustau have changed their distributors and my local wine supplier doesn’t deal with the new distributor.  On the plus side they have promised to get samples of similar Sherries from their new distributor.  I will let you know

In the meanwhile a good discussion on [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2012

The picture in yesterday’s post is a detail from the Dome Fernery.  It is one of the follies that can be seen in Westonbury Mill Water Gardens.  The dome is made from sunlit wine bottles that are cemented together to provide this extraordinary structure.  From the inside it is quite dazzling as you can see.
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6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 13th 2012

In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.
Martin Rees (B 1942)

14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2012

Filed under This & That

Photo Magic

I know I have posted this one before (several years ago…), but I came across it again whilst I was browsing through my photo files. I thought I would apply a little bit of photo magic to it and see how it came out.

12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2012

It just had to be done

4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 11th 2012

You might recall my original post entitled ‘a room with a view‘. That was only one view from my room, if I looked down instead of forwards, this is what a saw.

10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 10th 2012

In the third photo, you can see the room I was staying in, three windows from the left on the top floor.

4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 10th 2012

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