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Archive for August, 2017
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 13th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
Moseley Old Hall
For two days, in September 1651, the destiny of Britain was decided within the walls of Moseley Old Hall.
In January 1649 Charles I had been executed in Whitehall, the monarchy had been abolished and the country declared a Commonwealth. The hopes of the Royalist Cause now rested on the shoulders of his eighteen-year-old son, Charles [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes
Dinner on the Patio
This year I have found that our summer months resembled autumn rather than summer. In the few weeks since I have retired from my career there have only been a few occasions when it has been sunny enough to sit outside in my garden. It hasn’t even been sunny enough for me to be inspired [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 10th 2017
A Mystery Explained…
Synopsis: (from book preface by The Duke of Northumberland 1983)
It is approximately 4000 years ago that our remote ancestors, who are sometimes known as the ‘Beaker People’ because of the distinctively decorated cinerary urns they fashioned to contain ashes of the dead, incised markings on the sandstone rocks of Northumberland, which are generally [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 9th 2017
Filed under Art, Colwall 2017, Heritage, Holidays
Croome – The Landscape
The Landscape at Croome was not made as an afterthought. House and garden here form an integrated design. The park may be in the naturalistic style, based partly on the landscape paintings of Claude Gellee ‘le Lorraine’ and Nicolas Poussin and partly on ‘Capability’ Brown’s native Northumberland scenery, replacing the formal patterns of earlier periods, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 8th 2017
Filed under Colwall 2017, Heritage, Holidays
Commodes
A signboard next to these carefully crafted and decorated wooden objects informs that they are a pair of commodes:
The name is taken from the French word for a chest of drawers. They were introduced during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) and the style was adopted in the mid-1700s when French fashions became popular [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2017
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Wells 2017
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 6th 2017
