We booked a taxi to take us to the coach in good time for our annual trip to London. Normally, we drive and leave the car outside the local supermarket but on this occasion the trip coincided with an annual bonfire event and the place would be teeming with people. The journey to London ran [...]
Archive for November, 2015
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin – his control
Stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
15 Comments CherryPie on Nov 15th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Tynemouth
From Wiki:
The headland towering over the mouth of the Tyne has been settled since the Iron Age. The Romans occupied it. In the 7th century a monastery was built there and later fortified. The headland was known as PEN BAL CRAG
The place where now stands the Monastery of Tynemouth was anciently called by the Saxons [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 12th 2015
Filed under Heritage
At the Going Down of the Sun…
…and in the morning, we will remember them.
During 2014-2018 a series of nationwide and international events are taking place to commemorate the centenary of World War One. The series of events is being led by the Imperial War Museum, which has a dedicated website entitled 1914.org.
The events will serve to remind us of those who [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Newcastle 2015, This & That
Computer Problems…
For some reason my computer has decided to play up this evening. One of the programes has decided to hog all the CPU resources meaning that nothing else will work. So I am resigned to working on my laptop with limited resources and it is sooo slow… Hopefully normal service will be resumed ASAP.
I am [...]
11 Comments CherryPie on Nov 10th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Around the Cragside Estate
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 9th 2015
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
Bhagavad Gita
20 Comments CherryPie on Nov 8th 2015
