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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:04:53 +0000

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

Prior Wood Gardens – Melrose

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:19:50 +0000

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:43:18 +0000

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Richard Bach

Happy New Year :-)

CherryPie — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:01:50 +0000

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:38:25 +0000

I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.

Drew Barrymore

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:18:31 +0000

Working in the garden… gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Ruth Stout

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:08:05 +0000

Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others.

And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there is in the world.

Etty Hillesum

St Helen’s Church – Cornhill-on-Tweed

CherryPie — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 21:03:57 +0000

Despite our best intentions we didn’t manage to cross the road from the Collingwood arms to visit the Church of St Helen.

We had also intended to get a closer look of the War Memorial, also just across the road from the Collingwood arms…

St Helens’ church is on my list for my next visit to the area

The Collingwood Arms

CherryPie — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:54:34 +0000

The Collingwood Arms is a grade II listed Coaching Inn built during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. On first appearance there are tell-tale signs of the hotels Georgian roots with its archetypal centred entrance and the somewhat symmetrical frontage including the grand single paned sash windows that flood the hotel with natural light.

It is plain to see upon entering that the Hotel draws upon its nautical ancestry, illustrations and paintings of Vice Admiral Collingwood and even the porthole clock hanging in the main entrance steer you toward the conclusion that we have a close tie with Horatio Nelsons second in command. Currently with all 15 bedrooms being named after the Galleons that sailed under the Vice Admiral many believe that we must have been a favoured spot for Lord Collingwood or even owned by him at one point or another, unfortunately this is all too good to be true.

What many don’t know is that the hotels name and rich heritage comes more from the merchant family that owned the property up until 1955. Although there is some correlation between the Vice Admiral Collingwood and the Hotel through a very long and confusing lineage, little is still know about the Collingwood family that once resided here, however we do know that many of the passed family members ar memorialised just across the road in St Helens Cemetery.*

*Information from hotel room information booklet

The Road to Cornhill-on-Tweed

CherryPie — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 23:41:33 +0000