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A Japanese Proverb
Archive for the 'Holidays' Category
Filed under Crookham 2009, Holidays
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2017
Budle Bay is in North Northumberland and is a beautiful and important bird sanctuary, with huge mud flats that are exposed at low tide. The whole area is part of the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve and is very popular with birdwatchers, particularly in the winter when thousands of wildfowl and waders spend their winter on [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Grace Darling Museum
The photo above shows the coble in which Grace and her father launched in atrocious weather to rescue survivors from the steamship Forfarshire which had struck the Big Harcar rock on the Farnes. The photo below shows St Aidan’s church as viewed from the Grace Darling museum with rather calmer seas in the background.
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Coastal Road to Bamburgh
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Science & Nature, Wells 2016
Moon Rising Over Salisbury Cathedral
I couldn’t quite get the angle to frame the moon and the cathedral in the same photograph. I could have done with a bit of time but my companion would probable have got bored and impatient whilst I wandered around for the perfect angle.
The second photo shows the top of one of the trees from [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2017
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Wells 2016
Wooden Ram
This delightful wooden ram is situated above the the Smith England Hairdressing Salon.
The wooden ram above dates from the shop’s former use by Stonehenge Woolen Industries, set up in the early C20th by Catherine Lovibond, with the aim of regenerating the rural economy. The firm continued in business till 1959. *
The ram was recently renewed [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 14th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Wells 2016
Fudgehenge
During my July visit to Salisbury I was rather taken with Roly’s Fudge Pantry’s presentation of Stonehenge. An article from the Salisbury Journal provided more information:
STONEHENGE has had a tasty makeover in time for National Fudge Day which takes place today [June 16, 2016].
Roly’s Fudge Pantry has unveiled what is dubbed as ‘Fudgehenge’ for the [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 13th 2017
