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We set off in good time and when the time came we stopped at a tea shop for elevenses at a place we tried to stop at a few years ago on another visit to Wiltshire. On that occasion we aborted the attempt, some sort of event was going on which meant parking in a [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2014

I have returned from a weekend away in Salisbury.  It is a long time since my last visit, on which occasion I didn’t quite get to visit Salisbury Cathedral.  On this occasion I was able venture inside and it was well worth the wait.
I am now busily sorting the photographs I took and will be [...]

20 Comments CherryPie on Jun 9th 2014

12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 6th 2014

These photographs were taken in the middle of March just after the severe flooding we had in the south of England.

6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 3rd 2014

On Sunday the 1st June the National Service (RAF) veterans annual parade took place at Cosford.  One of the events billed was a fly past by the Battle of Britain Memorial Dakota (weather permitting).  Sunday morning was glorious so we set off for Cosford in order to watch the display.
We stood on a grassy bank [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 2nd 2014

When I set off to visit The National Memorial Arboretum this morning I didn’t realise that it was Memorial Day in the United States.  It was only later when I got back home and read Ginnie’s post at Vision & Verb that I realised I had picked a perfect day to visit the Arboretum.  The [...]

18 Comments CherryPie on May 26th 2014

Today I am spending the day in Nottingham with my brother to celebrate his birthday and tomorrow is the long awaited Shutterchance meet up at Cosford Museum.  As a non shutterchancer I will be gatecrashing the meetup again

12 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2014

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