Archive for March, 2017
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
More From the East Front Opening Ceremony
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
Powis Castle East Front Entrance
The east front entrance to Powis Castle has been closed to the public since the castle was donated to the National Trust in 1952. In more recent years the stairs had started to crumble and one of the retaining walls in the terrace was in danger of collapse which could have undermined the structural stability [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lenham 2017
Just Catching Up…
…after a weekend away
The few photos I took are organised and ready but I don’t want to start posting about the weekend until after another expedition that we are due to go on tomorrow. More on that later…
PS: there is also a blog post pending on this mornings unsatisfactory attempt to fix the shoddy workmanship [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2017
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right,since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
Claude Monet
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 26th 2017
Banbury Cross
In the middle ages three crosses stood in different locations around the town. All three, The White Cross in West Bar, The Bread Cross near Butchers Row and High Street and finally The High or Market Cross in Cornhill were destroyed by puritans at the star of the 1600’s. The puritans disliked religious imagery [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 24th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.
On sunday we set off to Banbury, albeit taking a rather more conventional method of transport than a horse for a family gathering. Banbury was the [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 22nd 2017
Filed under Anecdotes
Mozart Requiem
On Saturday evening I had the pleasure of attending a candlelit concert in the Wrekin College’s Chapel. The performance was by; Wrekin College Combined Choirs and Orchestra, The Old Hall School Chapel Choir with Piano and Choral Soloists.*
As we approached the chapel it was very atmospheric because the outer porch window sills were illuminated with [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Mar 20th 2017
