Some special moments and memories from 2022, one from each month of the year. The photographs are taken from a calendar that I created for myself and due to the printing deadline, December’s photograph is also from November.
1. The Inclined Plane, Coalport, 2. Lichfield Cathedral, 3. Local Pathway, 4. Llangollen Canal Nr Chirk Aqueduct, 5. [...]
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A Review of 2022 in Twelve Photographs
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 1st 2023
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Pitchford Hall Revisited
We had a lovely lunch time tour of Pitchford Hall where by coincidence we had the same guide that took us on our previous tour in 2018. Our guide is a fountain of knowledge and Mr C and I had the privilege of a lengthy conversation with her as we enjoyed mince pies and mulled [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 19th 2022
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A Frosty Morning Walk…
… completed my ‘Walk 1000 Miles’ challenge for 2022
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 15th 2022
After breakfast we checked out of the hotel, taking the opportunity to mention that we had been locked out of the hotel the previous evening. The receptionist seemed unconcerned about our experience and I wasn’t convinced that the problem would be escalated to make sure it didn’t happen to anyone else. I was persistent on [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 14th 2022
We navigated our way around the breakfast menu which somehow didn’t quite work, for example there was no bread to accompany the meat and cheese that are part of the continental breakfast.
After breakfast, our first destination was Shakespeare’s birthplace where the room guides’ explanations and stories added to the experience. We then visited the nearby [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 11th 2022
We awoke to glorious sunshine and were given a window seat for breakfast which allowed us to to make the most of it. The breakfast was excellent although the portions were enormous. My plate of scrambled egg and salmon could have fed two people.
Straight after breakfast we headed into town to pick up some bottled [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Dec 6th 2022
We set off a little later than planned because Mr C had been away in London at a conference and needed to pack.
With lunch in mind, just outside of Stratford, we noticed a Dobbies garden centre. We negotiated around a car crash that was outside the garden centre but, on arrival at the cafe we [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 5th 2022
