Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, York 2011
My final post showing the journey of my weekend in York brings us nicely to the festive season.
The National Trust shop was stocked up with it’s Christmas goods. I made one small purchase… Keep Calm at Christmas
People act really weird at Christmas time! What other time of year do you sit in [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 20th 2011
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It is disappointing that government failed to engage in reasonable talks and discuss their proposed imposed changes to public sector pensions. The changes that were announced in advance of the study they had commissioned to evaluate those pensions.
The lack of proper negotiation led to the action that was taken by public sector workers today.
I [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2011
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Whilst going about my daily business at work I was drawn to look at the dictionary that is stood up next to my in/out/pending trays. I immediately forgot about it.
When it was lunch time I rustled in my bag and got my lunch time eats out and placed them on the table. As I did [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 25th 2011
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Whilst wandering round the National Railway Museum my Mum reminisced about what train travel used to be like before commerce took over. Back in those days it was all about looking after the customer and making them comfortable so they enjoyed their journey. This was before the days of getting a person from A [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 22nd 2011
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
It seems that ‘that time of year‘ has come around all too soon. Where did the year go?
I had always planned to visit The Festive Gift Fair again this year, the tickets from a colleague were a bonus surprise I took the opportunity to visit with my Mum.
Once again the trains there and [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 20th 2011
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After checking out of the hotel we walked along the bit of the town walls that we hadn’t already done. Following that we had a quick visit to the City Art Gallery whilst we waited for the Treasurer’s House to open.
The Treasurer’s House is only open for guided tours at this time of year. When [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Nov 16th 2011
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The weather had turned cooler and the morning walk around three quarters of the town walls was quite refreshing. After the walk we stopped off for a cup of tea and then walked along the Shambles before having lunch. One of the shops had some interesting bags and clothing which resulted in me getting a [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 14th 2011
