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After taking my mum for her second Covid vaccination and before a garden get together with family members I had a window of opportunity to take advantage of the glorious sunshine.
I walked to my favourite local pool and sat for a while enjoying the sounds of nature. I watched fish swimming just under the surface [...]

5 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2021

… on a sunny Sunday afternoon

The garden’s initial creation lay in Colonel Harry Clive’s wartime decision of 1940, to provide his ailing wife – Dorothy – with a ‘series of interesting walks’ as she battled with Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately Dorothy died in 1942 but Colonel Clive continued work apace throughout the 1940s and 1950s, especially [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2021

Part of this walk took me along fully urban routes rather than my more normal semi-urban routes. I did not photograph the fully urban areas. I only walked them to get my bearings on how to link local pathways together. My explorations led to a 7 mile walk in the afternoon sunshine.
It was not the [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 15th 2021

… followed by the arrival of my new garden bench and later fine dining at Chez Nous.

11 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2021

8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 13th 2021

I started my graffiti walk at Leegomery Centre, walking along the Silkin Way. The first graffiti that I noticed was on the pathway just beyond the plunge pool.
I will only share some of the graffiti because I don’t wish to promote the conspiracy theory/political message that the graffiti artist was promoting. Some of the graffiti [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 13th 2021

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