Mr C, my mum & I spent the Easter weekend at Stobbery House in Wells. We enjoyed a relaxing atmosphere, kind hospitality, a delightful garden and spectacular views. We attended the Easter Morning Eucharist service in Wells Cathedral. As the choir was singing the response (in Latin) to the initiation of the Eucharistic prayer I [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Wells 2017
The Wanderer Returns
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 18th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lenham 2017
Lenham – Day Three
I woke up quite early and remembered that the clocks had moved forward one hour. I wondered if anyone else had remembered as it had not been mentioned the previous evening before we all went to bed.
It turned out that everyone had forgotten…
Eventually everyone surfaced. Mr C and I kept out of the way whilst [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 5th 2017
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Lenham – Day Two
We got up early and had tea, toast and orange juice for breakfast before setting out for Leeds Castle with my Brother in Law and family. The day was lovely and sunny, but a little windy making the air quite bracing in exposed places.
We walked through the parkland towards the castle in glorious sunshine, spring [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 4th 2017
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Lenham – Day One
We had a good run down to kent stopping off for lunch at Cherwell Valley service station. For a motorway service station it has a rather good selection of food options. We both had a Turkey and Stuffing roll off the carvery bar. We arrived in Lenholm around 3pm where we quickly popped into the [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
Powis Castle East Front Entrance
The east front entrance to Powis Castle has been closed to the public since the castle was donated to the National Trust in 1952. In more recent years the stairs had started to crumble and one of the retaining walls in the terrace was in danger of collapse which could have undermined the structural stability [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2017
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Just Catching Up…
…after a weekend away
The few photos I took are organised and ready but I don’t want to start posting about the weekend until after another expedition that we are due to go on tomorrow. More on that later…
PS: there is also a blog post pending on this mornings unsatisfactory attempt to fix the shoddy workmanship [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2017
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Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.
On sunday we set off to Banbury, albeit taking a rather more conventional method of transport than a horse for a family gathering. Banbury was the [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 22nd 2017
