Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes
Before:
I had an extended break after my recent holiday. My bathroom was being refitted, which was long overdue. I probably should have given a public health warning ahead of showing the above before photo. I will not be sad to be rid of those pink flowers which were not at all to [...]
19 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2013
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Newcastle 2013
On my recent holiday I got a bit carried away and took around 700 photographs so it has taken me a long time to sort them out. Now I have finished I will continue to post about the many places that I visited whilst I was away. For those of you who would like to [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 5th 2013
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
One of he events that was taking place on the 500th anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Flodden was an archaeological dig in one of the fields where the main conflict took place. The dig hoped to find the remains of bodies of those who had fallen. The bodies would not be disturbed, but [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Oct 2nd 2013
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On Sunday Mr C went to the Derby wargame show with a couple of his mates. I was asked if I wanted to go and I considered perhaps being dropped of at a Stately home nearby. I decided to stay at home, I thought there might be too much wargame talk in the car.
I had [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 1st 2013
The alarm seemed to go off very early this morning…
Mr C quickly did his packing before we went for breakfast. There was a lot of banter as Toby served breakfast. When one of the other guests asked him if he was alright this morning, he looked at us and said ‘No not really’ and we [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Sep 28th 2013
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
In the morning we visited Alnwick Castle which was labelled a ‘must do’ on Mr C’s list. We both enjoyed revisiting the castle and were rather relieved that we were English Heritage members, which allowed us discounted entry to the castle which normally costs £14.50. After I bought up yet another book from the gift [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 26th 2013
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
Over breakfast we decided that we would venture across the border into Scotland to visit Traquair House which had been recommended to us by the guests we had been chatting with in the lounge the previous evening. As we left the breakfast room Toby then Leona followed us out into the porch. They had mentioned [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Sep 25th 2013
