The plan for today was to visit the Birmingham Back to Backs but unfortunately they were fully booked. It was a long way to travel just to have lunch in Birmingham so plan B was hatched. The next choice was Wightwick Manor which isn’t too far away from Birmingham. However the journey [...]
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Keep Calm & Carry On
My blog and I are back at least for now…
There was a lot of correspondence with tech support who after all else failed tried to restore the pages to how they were before they stopped working properly. Even that didn’t work so I was advised to do a manual upgrade of Wordpress. There was one [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Apr 1st 2010
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Hard Work and Fun
This weekend started with a mass of roses, a lot of hard work spring cleaning and getting the spare room ready for visitors. In the evening after the visitors arrived we had fun in the local Chinese Restaurant. It is always interesting to go with different people because this means you end up trying [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2010
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A Long Day
Today was always going to be long but it turned out to be even longer than expected because the doorbell rang twice at 4.30am or maybe I was just dreaming and that didn’t really happen… Whatever I didn’t get back to sleep properly after that.
I had to get up early to man the picket [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 24th 2010
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All Set for Action
Tomorrow, PCS members are set for a third day of industrial action to defend the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. All we are asking is that the government sit down and talk with us rather than impose new conditions without a negotiated settlement.
So it will be another early start to another busy day for me. [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 23rd 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Kent February 2010
Dover
When we visited Dover Castle a strange plan for meeting up with other members of the family was set up. We were to meet up at a certain shopping center that was by the sea front. We arrived a bit early so I took the opportunity to take a stroll along the seafront and take [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 22nd 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Books, Holidays, Kent February 2010
Unexpected
I thought a photograph of Foyles bookshop would be good to include in my 100 photos project. I was so focused on getting all of the word Foyles in the photograph that I didn’t notice what else I had captured in my shot. The people I was with didn’t really help either they kept turning [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 20th 2010
