On August bank holiday Monday we had almost, but not quite recovered from our hectic weekend. We ventured out to visit a garden and enjoy a lunch along the way. Our first port of call was the Dingle Gardens, a place we had not visited before. It wasn’t quite what we were looking for, so [...]
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Glansevern Hall Gardens Revisited
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 31st 2016
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Uninvited Guests
On the day of the wedding the weather was so perfect that some uninvited guests emerged from the pool area. The tiny intruders invaded layers of the brides dress and had to be removed for the photographs. Later in the day when the wedding guests had gathered on the terrace before the evening reception [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 30th 2016
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Love & Laughter
This weekend my brother got married to his lovely lady. Their wedding day was perfect and beautiful. The sun came out to bless them and there was much love, laughter and happy tears along the way… The happy couple surprised everyone with a choreographed dance story about the two of them. A part of the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2016
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On The Way Home from the Office
This evening I left the office a few minutes earlier than usual because Mr C was working from home. I knew Mr C would have finished his work and I didn’t have to wait for him to travel from his office to home.
I joined the always busy roundabout, that needs a bit of due care [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 17th 2016
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
I have just come inside from watching the stars and planets twinkling and rotating above my garden. The heavenly bodies were accompanied by a bat flitting about catching insects in the twilight. It was a perfect end to a perfect day.
It was Mr C’s birthday and we spent the day at Chester Zoo. The weather [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 16th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Wells 2016
Anyone for Croquet?
On our first day in Wells we came across the quintessentially English scene on the lawn in front of the Bishop’s Palace.
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 10th 2016







