The patio furniture has now been moved off the lawn and back it its former location. I have not placed all the tubs in their final locations yet, I haven’t quite decided what I want where. I don’t want all the bins cluttering up the garden so I need to clear a space for two [...]
Archive for March, 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens
House Renovations
Although our tired tarmac driveway has needed replacing for a number of years we kept putting off replacing it until recently. A local builder was laying driveways in our area and we decided at long last that we would have ours replaced including the path up the side of our house. The path up the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 30th 2016
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Franciscan Church of the Annunciation
The Franciscan Church of the Annunciation (Slovene: Frančiškanska cerkev Marijinega oznanjenja or commonly Frančiškanska cerkev) is a Franciscan church located on Prešeren Square in Ljubljana, the capital ofSlovenia. It is the parish church of Ljubljana – Annunciation Parish. Its red colour is symbolic of the Franciscan monastic order.[1] Since 2008, the church has been protected as a cultural monument of national significance [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2016
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Prešernov trg
Located between Ljubljana’s Old Town and the 19th-century districts on the west bank of the ljubljanica river, Prešernov trg is, in many ways, the symbolic heart of the city. It is named after France Prešeren, the Romantic poet whose patriotic verses were central to the development of a Slovenian national consciousness. The poet is immortalized [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 27th 2016
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Three Women at the Tomb
16 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
3 And they said among themselves, Who shall [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 27th 2016
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The Crucifixion
46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Luke 23:46 (KJV)
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 25th 2016
