Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
Archive for February, 2014
Filed under Gardens
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 9th 2014
My previous post on the house at Cragside can be viewed here.
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 8th 2014
Synopsis (from book cover):
William George Armstrong was one of the leading and most successful of Great Britain’s nineteenth century engineers. At Elswick he began a career in mechanical and civil engineering, moving into armaments, and then on to naval and, at Walker, mercantile shipbuilding. In the later decades of the Victorian age his company was [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 7th 2014
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
Step Inside…
… St Cuthbert’s Church
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2014
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
St Cuthbert’s Church – Norham
NORHAM is the place where St Aidan crossed the Tweed on his way from Iona to establish his monastery at Lindisfarne or Holy Island in A.D. 635.
It is said that when a stone church was built at Lindisfarne the wooden structure was transferred to Norham. the preaching cross on the village green may be on [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 5th 2014
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
LadyKirk – The Architecture
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 4th 2014
22 Comments CherryPie on Feb 3rd 2014
