The weather was gloriously sunny as we drove through the Shropshire and Herefordshire countryside for our overnight stay at Colwall village. When we crossed over the border into Herfordshire I noticed an abundance of Mistletoe in the trees. I can’t remember the last time I saw mistletoe growing in the UK and I have never [...]
Archive for February, 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Colwall 2016, Holidays
Colwall – Day One
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2016
Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit from within.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2016
Filed under Art, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Youth Wheel
A bronze sculpture by Stojan Batič.
Batič was born in a working-class family in Trbovlje, a mining town in central Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Already as a teenager, he worked in the local coal mine. At the age of 19, he joined the partisan resistance, which fought the Nazi German forces. After World War [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2016
Filed under Art
Mindful Colouring
For Christmas my mum asked for some adult colouring books which are currently popular in the UK. Whilst I was choosing which books to buy for her I was inspired to have a go at colouring too. I ordered a book and some felt pens. The pens arrived quickly but the book was not due [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 17th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Science & Nature
The Land Where Mistletoe Grows
I have been away on a mini break to the land where mistletoe grows and am currently working through the photographs I took while I was away. Work is also rather manic at the moment so bear with me until normal service is resumed
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 16th 2016
Filed under Holidays, Winchester 2014
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 14th 2016
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Banka Slovenije
In line with the first project prepared in 1918, LJUBLJANSKA KREDITNA BANKA (LKB) planned to construct buildings on the entire ground of the former Austrian military supply warehouse (Militär-Verpflegungsmagazin). This included the block between Tyrševa (now Slovenska Cesta) and Beethovnova Ulica, and between Kidričeva (now Štefanova Ulica) and Cankarjeva Ulica. The project was never realised: [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 13th 2016
