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 [...]
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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
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A Fresh Start
After my fresh start after Easter I have been making slow but steady progress in losing my excess baggage. My Belgian holiday put a small blip in my weight loss but I was back on track with a downward trend the following week. One of the lovely ladies made this heart plaque which is bound [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 7th 2015
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A Week of Surprises
On Saturday we took my Mum out to choose some wallpaper and ended up with a television and a cordless vacuum cleaner but no wallpaper. We were unable to find the required wallpaper book and the wallpaper expert wasn’t in so we left the details so she could hunt it down on her return to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 6th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Leuven 2015
Leuven – Day Seven
Once again we were offered Champagne for breakfast although on this occasion there were no strawberries so I opted for mixed fresh fruit instead. We had packed our cases before breakfast but before returning to our room to collect them we asked the hotel receptionist if he would book a taxi to take us to [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2015
