After our sagas of the previous week, culminating in our Saturday morning adventure we set off for the 39th party. The party was a joint celebration for the coming of age of (21 and 18) of two sibling children of friends of ours. The party was themed, everyone had to turn up in fancy dress [...]
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A Week of Challenges
Just over a week ago, early on Friday morning Mr C learned that one of his closest friends had passed away suddenly the previous evening. It was difficult to take in the reality as the friend was only 51 and always so full of life. This left us both a little sombre over the weekend.
On [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2015
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Cupcakes and Lemonade – Part Two
By the time we arrived home after our Saturday jaunt, the weather had changed from sunshine to rain and the small cupcake enterprise was nowhere to be seen. Just after we entered the house Mr C realised his spectacles were missing and, upon checking found that they were not in the car. He phoned the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 3rd 2015
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Cupcakes and Lemonade
As we were leaving our house this morning I noticed one of the neighbours and a young girl at the end of their drive writing on a flip chart and I wondered what they were up to. As we drove past, we noticed a table with cakes that appeared to be for sale. By now [...]
25 Comments CherryPie on Aug 1st 2015
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Sugnall Walled Garden Revisited
On Sunday (yesterday) we took my in-laws out for lunch to Sugnall walled garden. It was a belated fathers day trip due to us traveling home from our holidays on fathers day.
We found that Sugnall walled garden was completely transformed since our previous visit. Everything was in full bloom and the summer marquee was in [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2015
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Flat as a Pancake
This morning I got up earlier than I usually would on a Saturday so that Mr C & I could help my mum order wallpaper from a local retail outlet. When Mr C returned mum to her house we picked up some heavy bench ends that were cluttering up her garden, but that is a [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 18th 2015
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A perfect Day
I booked today off work so I could spend some time in my local memorial garden followed by lunch out. I was hoping for a nice relaxing day away from work and was rather dismayed when I arrived at home yesterday to find that one of the front tyres on my car looked rather deflated. [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2015
