Our heating system hasn’t been right since it was drained after a radiator pipe was broken whilst our ‘smallest room in the house‘ was being refitted in December last year. After the refit our heating system was full of air; the radiators required bleeding for several weeks and some rooms were cooler than they should [...]
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Storm Doris
When I got up this morning Mr C was peering out of one of the back bedroom windows and I wondered what he was doing. He informed me that one of next doors fence panels had blown out. A little while later he announced that two more panels had blown out. Storm Doris was swirling [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Feb 23rd 2017
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One of Those Weeks…
The week started well with our old backdoor being replaced. The previous door had warped and was letting in cold air much like the front door which we also replaced recently. The new backdoor was left with a blank panel at the top so that they could measure and align the georgian bars to the [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2017
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2017 Calendar
You will recall from a previous post that over the past few years I have created a personalised calendar as a Christmas present for Mr C. For 2016 a fellow blogger sent me a lovely calendar in PDF format that I was able to print off hang on the wall above my computer. I [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2017
There has been a bit of a technical hitch with my blog hosts causing my site along with many others to be offline for several hours. The tech guys have been working flat out to get it resolved and here I am with a little bit of colouring that that I did last year. I [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Holidays, Wells 2016
A Walk to Stonehenge
When we visited Stonehenge last year we chose to take a leisurely stroll to the stones rather than embark upon the shuttle bus. The walk was quite peaceful despite the crowds and it was wonderful to see the stones slowly emerging from the wider Stonehenge landscape. I found it interesting to see the stones within [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Science & Nature
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star…
… or is it a planet?
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2017
