For the last few years I have made a personalised calendar as a Christmas present for Mr C as one of his Christmas presents. I choose from the photographs that I have taken from the previous year, one from each month. The process of choosing causes me to reflect on the things that we have [...]
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
As the New Year turned I was reminded of the Elizabeth Gilbert’s Happiness Jar project which I blogged about a couple of years ago:
What is a Happiness Jar? The simplest thing in [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 1st 2017
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Foggy Layers…
…Beautiful scenery from my afternoon out and about in Shropshire
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 29th 2016
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On Christmas Day in the Morning
When I awoke on Christmas morning I was treated to a beautiful sunrise glowing through one of our bedroom windows. I tried to photograph the sunrise through the bedroom window but the sun was so bright that it caused too many reflections on the glass. I did however manage to capture the sunny glow through [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 25th 2016
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The Smallest Room in the House – Day Seven
The fitter arrived slightly later than on previous days, he had a small job to attend to first. When he arrived I pointed out the small chip that I had noticed in the tile. With a straight face he said ‘Well you will just have to look the other way!’, followed by ‘It will have [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2016
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The Smallest Room in the House – Day Six
The fitter had hoped to complete our project on day six, despite the setback at the beginning of the job. Everything was going well until he came to fix the radiator to the wall; one of the pipes was leaking. This meant he would have to drain the heating system in order to fix it. [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2016
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The Smallest Room in the House – Day Five
Day five saw the start of the hall tiling which you may recall was the main reason for our project. Good progress was made but the dwindling light made it impossible to see to make the finer cuts on the tiles around the edge of the hallway.
When I arrived home after a day in the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 16th 2016
