Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
St Swithun is the Saxon patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. Before the reformation his bones were displayed in a reliquary within the Benedictine Monastery. The reliquary and shrine to St Swithun was destroyed in 1538 by the commissioners of King Henry VIII.
The life of St Swithun, an Anglo-Saxon bishop, is rich in legend. A century [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Nov 22nd 2016
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
As we made our way to the Mary Rose museum featured in Saturday’s blog post we passed HMS Victory and were surprised to see that she was sporting different colours than we had seen on our previous visit. Initially we wondered if she was in the middle of being repainted and what we were seeing [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 21st 2016
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
Sri Chinmoy
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 20th 2016
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
On my first visit to the Mary Rose in in September 2014 she was behind perspex as she was being dried out as part of the final stages of work undertaken to preserve her. The view of her was to some extent obscured by the tubes that were in place to dry her out.
When I [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Nov 19th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes
We have a clear desk policy at work which means that every night we tidy our papers into a draw or cabinet. Every evening I store my work papers and work notes in a cabinet near to my desk. A few weeks ago I returned to work after the weekend to find that one of [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 18th 2016
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
…by the 52nd Regiment at Waterloo 1896
This incident took place during the final stages of the Battle of Waterloo, after the 52nd Light Infantry had routed the last advancing column of the French Imperial Guard and the pursuit of the French by Wellington’s army was in progress. *
*from an information plate next to the painting
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 17th 2016
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I planned my morning to make sure I could set off to work a little earlier than usual just in case the man with the stop go signs was controlling the traffic. All was going well but then I heard the sound of ladders outside our house. The window cleaner had arrived early, he doesn’t [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 16th 2016
