The Home of Lord Palmer, Manderston is the Edwardian House par excellence. It was built with no expense spared and with every modern convenience of that era. Here you can see sumptuous staterooms and a silver staircase, the only one in the world. Coupled with the elaborate domestic quarters, it gives an intriguing insight into [...]
Archive for January, 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Manderston
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2017
Filed under Crookham 2009, Holidays
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
A Japanese Proverb
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2017
Budle Bay is in North Northumberland and is a beautiful and important bird sanctuary, with huge mud flats that are exposed at low tide. The whole area is part of the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve and is very popular with birdwatchers, particularly in the winter when thousands of wildfowl and waders spend their winter on [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Grace Darling Museum
The photo above shows the coble in which Grace and her father launched in atrocious weather to rescue survivors from the steamship Forfarshire which had struck the Big Harcar rock on the Farnes. The photo below shows St Aidan’s church as viewed from the Grace Darling museum with rather calmer seas in the background.
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Coastal Road to Bamburgh
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes
2017 Calendar
You will recall from a previous post that over the past few years I have created a personalised calendar as a Christmas present for Mr C. For 2016 a fellow blogger sent me a lovely calendar in PDF format that I was able to print off hang on the wall above my computer. I [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2017
There has been a bit of a technical hitch with my blog hosts causing my site along with many others to be offline for several hours. The tech guys have been working flat out to get it resolved and here I am with a little bit of colouring that that I did last year. I [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2017
