It was lovely that Mr C had the opportunity to join me on my post shift walk. He chose to walk one of my favourite walks in the opposite direction…
I like to walk clockwise on a circular route rather than anti clockwise. I wonder what that says about me?
Archive for June, 2024
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
A Post Shift Walk at Attingham Park
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 19th 2024
Filed under Anecdotes, This & That
Snowdonia
A few weeks ago, I acquired a new unopened copy of the out-of-print board game; Snowdonia: The Deluxe Master Set. When it arrived, I organised the box content but due to a mini vacation and a full diary I hadn’t had the opportunity to play it.
I enjoyed the first time outing of the game. We [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jun 19th 2024
We arrived at breakfast to find our proprietor, Paul, cooking and serving breakfast assisted by a lovely young lady who hadn’t long been working at Cathedral View.
By the time we had finished our breakfast and checked out it was still only 9.30am, which was too early to visit the Parish Church of St Mary Magdelene [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 18th 2024
After breakfast we walked down Steep Hill in order to join the 10.30 guided tour of Lincoln’s Stonebow and Guild Hall which has been the meeting place of the City Council since Medieval times. We arrived early so we spent a few minutes in Waterstones where I perused the board game section.
When it was time [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 16th 2024
I had a good night’s sleep and was awoken by both the alarm clock and the construction workers refurbishing the White Hart Hotel on the opposite side of the road. I thought that 7am was a little early for such noisy activities to be taking place.
We crossed the courtyard to the breakfast room where we [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 14th 2024
This was our rescheduled trip to Lincoln after we had to cut short our Easter trip due to mum being ill. We chose the dates to coincide with our wedding anniversary.
We set off early enough to reach the Daisy Made Ice Cream and Coffee shop in time for lunch. We know from previous visits that [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 13th 2024
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A Trip to Birmingham
Mum had an early appointment in the fracture clinic to assess progress on her broken arm. The appointment ran smoothly but as I suspected she needs to keep the plaster cast on for another couple of weeks. The doctor, a charming young man sat down next to mum when she was disappointed that the plaster [...]
17 Comments CherryPie on Jun 11th 2024
