When I woke up the sun was shining and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Mr C started his morning ritual of making a cup of tea only to find that the drinks tray had not been restocked! When we entered the dining room I chose a table that was next to French doors [...]
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Hurley – Day Three
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 1st 2017
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Hurley – Day Two
Our room was a little warm overnight due to the lovely weather. The breakfast spread was excellent, having both cooked and continental style options, although unfortunately the plates were cold.
When we were comfortably replete we drove to The Savill Garden which is situated in Windsor Great Park. Whilst we were travelling Mr C’s phone started [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 31st 2017
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Hurley – Day One
We picked up my Mum and set off on our journey to Windsor which took rather longer than expected due to the volume of traffic on the bank holiday weekend. Whilst we were driving around Windsor struggling to find a place to park we spotted my nephew and his lady friend outside Windsor Castle and [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 30th 2017
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The Wanderer Returns
I have returned from my weekend break, which was arranged so that we could meet up with one of my nephews. We had a lovely weekend and the weather was kind to us putting its sunny hat on for the weekend.
On our return the weather was still favourable allowing us to enjoy an al fresco [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2017
Sincerity is the way of Heaven.
Menicus
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 13th 2017
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Croome – The Landscape
The Landscape at Croome was not made as an afterthought. House and garden here form an integrated design. The park may be in the naturalistic style, based partly on the landscape paintings of Claude Gellee ‘le Lorraine’ and Nicolas Poussin and partly on ‘Capability’ Brown’s native Northumberland scenery, replacing the formal patterns of earlier periods, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 8th 2017
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Commodes
A signboard next to these carefully crafted and decorated wooden objects informs that they are a pair of commodes:
The name is taken from the French word for a chest of drawers. They were introduced during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) and the style was adopted in the mid-1700s when French fashions became popular [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2017
