Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens
The bricklayer came first thing this morning with two of the workmen who had been working on the garden earlier in the week. He got to work on the two retaining walls including finishing off the incomplete footings for the wall at the end of the garden and organised the laying of the footpath.
I love [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jul 23rd 2016
PS: The photos are less than perfect because the lighting had dropped before I had chance to go and take some photographs.
18 Comments CherryPie on Jul 21st 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Wells 2016
Yesterday I returned from a lovely but all to brief weekend away in Wells. Shortly after we arrived home we were visited by the gentleman who is organising the next phase of work in our garden so that he could confirm what work needed to be done.
The men who were going to do the garden [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 19th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lincoln 2016, Science & Nature
On my recent visit to Lincoln Castle, to view the art instalation ‘Poppies Wave’ I noticed a mother duck and her cute ducklings sitting at eye level on a wall.
By the time I got back from looking at the poppies the mother duck and some of the ducklings were on the ground below the wall. [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 7th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
…led to Mr C feeling wanderlust.
We abandoned our household duties and set of towards the Brockhampton Estate in time to enjoy lunch in the tea room. The sun shone as we traveled towards Brockhampton and we were treated to some spectacular countryside views, but as we neared the Brockhampton Estate a large dark cloud appeared [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 25th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lincoln 2016
The castle gates remain closed until 10 o’clock so after breakfast and checking out of the hotel we visited a small garden next to the lawns. By the time we had finished in the garden it was still to early for the gates to be open so we took the long way round to visit [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jun 22nd 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lincoln 2016
The hotel breakfast was nice, although it was served in an unusual way. The toast was served stacked on the plate with the breakfast rather than in a toast rack. After breakfast it wasn’t time for the castle gate to open so we walked around ‘The Lawns’ which was formerly a lunatic asylum.
When the gate [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 21st 2016
