What a stressful morning! At least the sun has come out now reminding me that soon I will be able to get out and about enjoying gardens again. In the meanwhile I still have the photographs from previous garden visits. These were taken at Sissinghurst which is a garden in a ruin [...]
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden
7 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2010
The promised snow did arrive over night and it was snowing like the clappers when I got up this morning. As I mentioned yesterday I had no choice but to go into work because I was on Business Improvements Delivering Excellence training. So there was nothing for it but to put my best foot [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 13th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Ightham Mote – Gardens and Grounds
I think with all the snow and chilliness that we have been having recently I need to remind everyone of warmer days. We do have more snow forecast overnight, but we have been told we couldn’t use that as an excuse for missing the last session of our Business Excellence Course at work (not that [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 12th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
A person often meets his destiny
on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 20th 2009
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens
Snow on the Way?
I thought the snow scenes from my garden would make good Christmas cards. So I created some more pictures similar to the one I posted a few days ago.
They seem quite appropriate as I was told that snow was forecast for next week. I am not convinced I think it is just wishful [...]
19 Comments CherryPie on Dec 12th 2009
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The Old Oak Tree
I am posting these as a special request for Claudia.
I love this majestic oak tree at the bottom of my garden. I always refer to it as ‘My Oak Tree’ but it is actually in the garden behind. The branches hang over the bottom of my garden and it always deposits plenty of [...]
23 Comments CherryPie on Dec 7th 2009
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Last Sunday I finally came to the end of my original 52 thoughts for the week, so from now on my thought for the week will be picked according to my mood on the day. In time I will get around to a post with links to all the discussions, so they can be seen [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 29th 2009
