The Elan Valley is a place of childhood memories. As a family we visited often at the end of the school holidays just as the trees were turning to shades of autumn. It has been on our wish list (Mr C and I) as a place to visit for over 20 years. On the occasion [...]
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Pitchford Hall
Pitchford Hall, a Grade I listed, Elizabethan Half Timbered House was recently, in 2016 re-acquired by a descendant of the family who owned the property until 1992. Pitchford Hall had been in the same family for 500 years when the then owner Caroline Colthurst and her husband were hit with financial responsibilities after investing in [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2018
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Busy Busy Busy…
… So what’s new
I am currently in the middle of writing a detailed blog post which I hope to post in the next few days. The blog article is about a place I visited on one of my recent excursions.
But more importantly my mum is moving house and that is no small task, [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2018
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Ted’s Summer Adventure
It has taken me a little time to get around to posting photographs of Ted’s Summer adventure to Ironbridge, lunching in EightySix’d and being taken on a mystery tour around Shropshire.
Ending his day relaxing on the patio as the sun went down.
16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2018
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Ready for an Adventure
Ted has been impatiently waiting for a summer adventure.
I (Ted), a small bear with a big heart have been housebound longer than expected.
I think? all of the craftsmen, painting, decorating, carpeting etc. have now left the building…
After all that caretaking I am now eager to be on my next adventure.
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 4th 2018
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Walking Challenge Result
After almost a month the certificate for the completion of my 50 day walking challenge has come through.
I have now successfully completed my 50 day walking challenge where I aimed to walk at least 10,000 per day. There were only two days when I couldn’t achieve this. I had factored those days in and had steps [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2018
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Fine Dining on the Patio
Today saw the temperature in my part of the world soar to a hot and humid mid 80s (F). I was supposed to be doing last minute preparations for when the decorator arrives to refresh two of our rooms. The two rooms he chose to do first (from our list) are the the two most [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 23rd 2018
