We had a good run down to kent stopping off for lunch at Cherwell Valley service station. For a motorway service station it has a rather good selection of food options. We both had a Turkey and Stuffing roll off the carvery bar. We arrived in Lenholm around 3pm where we quickly popped into the [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lenham 2017
Just Catching Up…
…after a weekend away
The few photos I took are organised and ready but I don’t want to start posting about the weekend until after another expedition that we are due to go on tomorrow. More on that later…
PS: there is also a blog post pending on this mornings unsatisfactory attempt to fix the shoddy workmanship [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2017
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
The Crypt – Winchester Cathedral
The original Norman east end of the Cathedral was built upon a crypt, which remains virtually unchanged. It contains a well, underneath the High Altar, which my pre-date the present Cathedral.*
This superb low-vaulted stone crypt, which floods in rainy months, dates from the 11th century, the earliest phase of building the Cathedral. Here you’ll find Antony [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 17th 2017
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The Chapel of St John the Evangelist and the Fisherman Apostles
On my first visit to Winchester Cathedral one of the south transept chapels, The Chapel of St John the Evangelist and the Fisherman Apostles, drew me in. Within this chapel can be found the grave of Izaak Walton, who became famous as the author of ‘The Complete Angler’.
The modern altar by Peter Eugine Ball [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Mar 14th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Gardens, Holidays, Winchester 2016
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
John Donne
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 12th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Winchester 2016
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Sometimes, the love we are looking for is right in front of us, too close for the eyes to see.
Let your heart do the searching.
From ‘a Thousand Paths to love’ by David Baird
PS; The sign in the photo states ‘PLEASE KEEP TO THE PATH‘
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2017
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, London 2014
The Privy Garden – Kenilworth Castle
Much of the right-hand court is occupied by the privy garden created by Dudley for the queen. Now known as the Elizabethan Garden, it has recently been recreated on the basis of archaeological evidence and an account of the 1575 festivities by Robert Langham.
Like the queen, visitors approach through the keep’s forebuilding, which was remodelled [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2017
