We finished our weekend shop and dropped off a few items for mum before setting off for some fun in the sun. We thought we might lunch in Apley Farm shop on our way to Bridgnorth. When we arrived the café was full, with only outdoor seating available. It was lovely and sunny but far [...]
Archive for February, 2022
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
A Short Trip to Bridgnorth
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2022
Filed under Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
To get or not get what we desire can be equally disappointing.
Epicterus
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2022
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Signs That Spring Is On It’s Way
I had a lovely brisk local walk before it was time to do the weekly shop. The shopping experience turned out to be as much of a palaver as trying to park for my recent walk in the Town Park, culminating with a broken bottle of beer in the boot of Mr C’s car!
Back home [...]
Comments Off CherryPie on Feb 25th 2022
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A Walk in the Park
The ideal choice for a walk after dropping Mr C off for a lunchtime ‘retirement do’ at the Golden Ball would have been around Ironbridge and Coalport. The flooding caused by recent storms Franklin, Dudley and Eunice meant those locations were off limits. My choice of walk needed a lunch option…
I briefly considered Attingham Park [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 24th 2022
This window is dedicated to Bishop Hacket, who spent energy and money restoring the Cathedral after damage caused during the Civil War. It shows the ruined Cathedral in the process of repair.*
*Information from a Church leaflet “A walk through Lichfield Cathedral”
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2022
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2022
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Lichfield Cathedral – Mediaeval Wall Paintings
Above the door inside the Chapter House one of three the mediaeval paintings that can be found within Lichfield Cathedral can be seen. It shows the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The other two paintings are located in the South Isle of the Cathedral. One of the paintings depicts the Crucifixion, the other depicts the Holy Trinity with [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2022
