Archive for November, 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Oxford 2014
A Room with a View
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 6th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
Remember, Remember…
On the way home from my recent weekend in Oxford, we stopped off at Coughton Court. The beginning of November seems an appropriate time to visit Coughton Court because it and the Throckmorton family who owned it played a pivotal role in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
The plot was the climax of a series of [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 5th 2014
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Winchester 2014
Beaulieu
There is more to Beaulieu than the acclaimed motor museum. The footprint of the Cistercian Abbey church can still be seen next to the cloister and chapter house. One can only wonder what the building would have been like. One of only four monastic buildings to survive in tact is the Refectory which became Beaulieu [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 4th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Oxford 2014
The Wanderer Returns…
…from her latest travels.
One year later our aborted 2013 trip to Oxford went ahead. I will be posting more on my Oxford travels soon…
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2014
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2014
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Proteus Bluebird CN7
The first car to officially set a Land Speed Record in excess of 400mph and the last to be wheel driven. Bluebird CN7 was one of a long line of speed machines associated with the Campbell family. Donald Campbell already held the Water Speed Record now his goal was 400mph on land. Technical support and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 1st 2014
