We enjoyed lunch and an afternoon walk around Winterbourne Gardens. For some reason the gate to the reservoir was closed leaving us slightly dissapointed.
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Wherever nature works, there will be beauty
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 28th 2024
Filed under Gardens, Norfolk 2022
Gooderstone Water Gardens
Billy Knights, a retired farmer began designing and creating the Water Gardens in 1970 in his 70th year. The site was a damp meadow which became too wet for cattle to graze.
Mr Knights’s son jokingly suggested he should have a water garden, which prompted him to draw out plans (on the back of a piece [...]
11 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2024
Filed under Faith Foundations, Gardens, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 8th 2023
Filed under Anecdotes, Arundel & Brighton 2023, Gardens, Holidays
The Bench is No More
My recent visit to the Royal Pavilion gardens reminded me of my previous visit many years ago. On that occasion I had intended to visit the Pavilion but there was a long queue so I opted for a quiet lunch in the gardens. I chose the perfect bench but what followed was anything but quiet [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2023
Winterbourne is a rare surviving example of an early 20th century suburban villa and garden. The house was built in 1903 for John and Margaret Nettlefold, of Guest, Keen & Nettlefold.
Nettlefold was a pioneer of town planning who carried the ideas seen in his own home to the less wealthy areas of the city.
Originally designed [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2023
