As we finish our Christmas celebrations and start to focus on New Year celebrations I am reminded of my holiday plans for the coming year.
We hope to visit Lincoln at Easter so that we can partake in the Easter morning communion service and we are planning to continue our travels in Italy from where we [...]
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Prosecco on the Balcony
22 Comments CherryPie on Dec 27th 2017
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Peace on Earth
Inspired by the wartime story of Sadako Sasaki, Attingham park decorated their Picture Gallery tree this year with origami cranes to symbolise peace and hope.
In Japanese folklore, cranes have a special significance and are said to live for 1,000 years. A legend promises that anybody who fold 1,000 paper cranes will be granted a wish.
Sadako [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2017
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1940s Christmas – Attingham Park
The 1940s was a decade of much change for the Berwick’s of Attingham, and also in the outside world with the ongoing impact of World War II until 1945, and in the years after.
The Christmases of the 1940s, celebrated at Attingham were not opulent. The impact of World War II nationally and locally in this [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 20th 2017
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The Cat and the Bothy
Today, I lunched at Attingham Park with a friend. It is the perfect time of year to visit, the ground floor of the house is decked out for a 1940’s Christmas. After lunch and a tour of the house we walked to the walled garden. Located in the walled garden is the Bothy, I took [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 19th 2017
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The Strangeness of Cats
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 18th 2017
After I walked home from town yesterday I cleared most of the snow off my car and this morning’s sunshine cleared the few remaining bits of snow and ice. The sun also warmed the ground enough to clear most of the snow off my driveway. The road however was still a little dodgy.
Early this evening [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Dec 13th 2017
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Six Inches Deep
I thought that Friday’s unexpected flurry of snow would have thawed out overnight. Although it didn’t snow during saturday the snow lingered making the roads in places quite treacherous.
In the early hours of sunday morning snow started to fall again and didn’t stop for nearly 24 hours. We haven’t seen this much snow for many [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 11th 2017
