Visitors approach the garden past the well pools, along curving paths which delay the moment of arrival, and through planting which echoes the colours and shapes of stained glass in the palace chapel. With the garden they find themselves beneath the gaze of the Cathedral tower, in a green and sheltering enclosure. Beside the path [...]
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Love & Laughter
This weekend my brother got married to his lovely lady. Their wedding day was perfect and beautiful. The sun came out to bless them and there was much love, laughter and happy tears along the way… The happy couple surprised everyone with a choreographed dance story about the two of them. A part of the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Listen in deep silence.
Be very still and open your mind….
Sink deep into the peace
that waits for you beyond the frantic,
riotous thoughts and sights
and sounds of this insane world.
From A Course in Miracles (…And Wisdom come quietly -Helen Exley)
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2016
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Science & Nature, Wells 2016
The Wells
Crossing the wooden boardwalk, you approach the shady and secretive corner of the grounds where St Andrew’s Well rises. There are two or three other wells here, which in summer are thick with wetland plants.*
St. Andrew’s Well
In 705 King Ine of Wessex gave land near the wells to Aldhelm, his Bishop, so that he could [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2016
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The Cross & The Cathedral
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 25th 2016
