Random thoughts and photos on my journey through life…
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
This is another theme I struggled with. I haven’t got any photos of schools or school days and even my photos of fish aren’t quite right because some of the fish are pointing in the wrong direction. But I shall share this one with you, which is the best I have to hand.
From Wiki:
In biology, [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Sep 17th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Earth is so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 25th 2010
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
16 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2010
Our friends never flatter.
They praise only the qualities we have.
…From a Thousand Paths to friendship by David Baird…
22 Comments CherryPie on Feb 7th 2010
Filed under Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009, This & That
…humour or thoughtlessness
Last week one of the girls at work was commenting that the youngest member of our team will soon be turning 20. Then she went on to remark that she was old enough to be his mother and I was old enough to by his grandmother. I know I have joked in [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2010
Originally Darwin tried to rear tropical plants within a plant case that he had bought for the drawing room. Unfortunately the plant case was too small and some of the more exotic blooms failed, so he erected a hothouse.
In the early 1860s, he erected a hothouse alongside the green house in the kitchen garden [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
On the way back from my trip to Kent last October I met up with friends at Down House, the home of Charles Darwin from 1842 until his death in 1882.
The experience was not as enjoyable as the other places I had been visiting and at first I couldn’t quite put my finger on what [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2010
