In the Serpent Garden, a topiary snake entices you past a series of sculptures, in which water flows over polished stainless steel and creates a canyon through which you can try to squeeze without getting wet.
There is also a mushroom-shaped structure on which surface tension and viscosity overcome gravity. The display culminates in the Torricelli [...]
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The Serpent Garden
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 17th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 16th 2016
…looking back at the pond and the owl and the pussycat shown in the previous post.
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2016
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The Owl and the Pussycat
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The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Oct 14th 2016
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Who’s Been Eating My cake!
15 Comments CherryPie on Oct 13th 2016
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Entrance to the Poison Garden
18 Comments CherryPie on Oct 12th 2016
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The Bamboo Labyrinth
A previous post of mine reveals the message at the centre of the labyrinth.
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 11th 2016
