Archive for December, 2013
Filed under This & That
The Night Before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 24th 2013
Filed under This & That
The Reindeer are Busy…
… and it is not yet Christmas Eve
Or maybe they have gone AWOL…
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 23rd 2013
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The true knowledge of music is nothing other than this: to know the ordering of all separate things and how the Divine Reason has distributed them; for this ordering of all separate things into one, achieved by skillful reason, makes the sweetest and truest harmony with the Divine Song.
Hermes Trismegitus
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2013
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
Powis Castle at Christmas
I took time out of my busy schedule to enjoy a relaxing drive through the Shropshire and Welsh countryside in order to visit Powis Castle. The lower state rooms are decked out in the style of an Edwardian Christmas:
Powis has been home to the Herbert family for almost 800 years and various Christmas traditions have [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 21st 2013
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
St Peter’s Chapel
Just before we depart from Lucerne and move onto Christmassy things I will show you St Peter’s Chapel which is the last place we visited on our day of departure.
St Peter’s Chapel is a Lucerne landmark and of considerable historical importance. It is Lucerne’s oldest church and was built in 1178 when a priest was [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 20th 2013
Filed under Art, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
Rosengart Collection
The Rosengart Collection (property of a foundation established by Angela Rosengart in 1992) has been accessible to the public in its entirety – f0r the first time ever – since March 2002. The collection, which comprises some 220 works and focuses primarily on French painting from 1870 to the 20th century, is presented over an [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 19th 2013
