Originally home to the Lindisfarne Gospels and the site of grisly Viking attacks, a visit to Lindisfarne Priory is a great day out in Northumberland. Sitting offshore on Holy Island and reached by a causeway at low tide, the peaceful atmosphere and beautiful views from the priory make a visit here well worth the effort.
Lindisfarne Priory was an [...]
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Lindisfarne Priory
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2014
From Wiki:
Aidan of Lindisfarne[1] (died 31 August 651), known as the Apostle of Northumbria, was an Irish monk and missionary credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. He founded a monastic cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, served as its first bishop, and travelled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility and to the socially disenfranchised (including children and slaves).
After his [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2014
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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Lindisfarne
I am now going to continue with the places that I visited on last years vacation to Newcastle and Crookham. First port of call is the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. The Island is tidal and can only be accessed by a causeway that twice a day is covered by the North Sea. A journey there [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2014
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 12th 2014
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
If you want to understand the invisible look carefully at the visible.
The Talmud
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2014
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The true knowledge of music is nothing other than this: to know the ordering of all separate things and how the Divine Reason has distributed them; for this ordering of all separate things into one, achieved by skillful reason, makes the sweetest and truest harmony with the Divine Song.
Hermes Trismegitus
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2013
