Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins). A bell would be rung to call [...]
Archive for February, 2017
Filed under Anecdotes
An Update on the Heating
After checking our system this morning the engineer declared the system was working perfectly and that it was operator failure our thermostat was set too low. I wondered about this diagnosis as I originally thought that was the problem too. After we had our new door fitted Mr C had turned the thermostat down a [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Winchester 2016
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Sometimes, the love we are looking for is right in front of us, too close for the eyes to see.
Let your heart do the searching.
From ‘a Thousand Paths to love’ by David Baird
PS; The sign in the photo states ‘PLEASE KEEP TO THE PATH‘
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2017
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The Heating Saga Continues!
Our heating system hasn’t been right since it was drained after a radiator pipe was broken whilst our ‘smallest room in the house‘ was being refitted in December last year. After the refit our heating system was full of air; the radiators required bleeding for several weeks and some rooms were cooler than they should [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens
Storm Doris
When I got up this morning Mr C was peering out of one of the back bedroom windows and I wondered what he was doing. He informed me that one of next doors fence panels had blown out. A little while later he announced that two more panels had blown out. Storm Doris was swirling [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Feb 23rd 2017
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, London 2014
The Privy Garden – Kenilworth Castle
Much of the right-hand court is occupied by the privy garden created by Dudley for the queen. Now known as the Elizabethan Garden, it has recently been recreated on the basis of archaeological evidence and an account of the 1575 festivities by Robert Langham.
Like the queen, visitors approach through the keep’s forebuilding, which was remodelled [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, London 2014
Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle stands on a low hill that was once at the heart of a 1,600 hectare (4,000 acre) park and surrounded by a vast man-made lake. The spectacular ruins, built mostly from the local red sandstone, reveal much of its medieval and Tudor past.
The castle is approached from the south by a causeway that [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2017
