Today our visitors turned up late and one less than expected. It was a good job Mr C had factored lateness into his cooking schedule. As we were enjoying our dinner the snow began to fall…
Due to eating lunch late our visitors were too full when it was time for tea. We sent them home [...]
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Boxing Day
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 26th 2014
…on The Case of the Missing Wine.
It is seven days since we received the strange delivery note saying Sorry I missed you when I came to deliver parcels “Their was another box of wine I think it was double ordered”. The tracking number is still not available for tracking on the Yodel website. Our supplier [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2014
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The Case of the Missing Wine
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Yodel Ho Ho Ho!!
You might recall my recent day of successful deliveries that arrived on 6th December. One of the Christmas deliveries I mentioned was a part delivery of wine that had been ordered for Christmas, some of which was for presents. The supplier informed us that the partial delivery was due to part of the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 13th 2014
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A Delivery or Two
At the beginning of the week I was notified that my ‘Poppy from the Moat’ was due to be delivered within the next two days. After a delay it turned up yesterday and upon opening the parcel I found the poppy was still slightly damp after several weeks residing in the ‘Tower Moat’. I am [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Dec 6th 2014
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Tree of Light
At the beginning of December many Rotary clubs throughout the United Kingdom launch their annual ‘Tree of Light’. The concept of the ‘Tree of Light’ was introduced into Shropshire from South Africa in the 1990s by a county Rotarian. For many years, since its inception, my father was a member of the small committee of [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 1st 2014
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Oxford – Day Four
I ordered egg and bacon for breakfast which I was expecting to be a small portion without all the added extras of a full cooked breakfast. I was wrong, I was served double quantities of egg and bacon! After breakfast we packed our cases into the car and set off towards Coughton Court which was [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 20th 2014
