Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
The Norman Peterborough Cathedral was founded as a monastic community in 654 AD. The Cathedral is the burial place to two queens and the scene of Civil War upheavals.
During our visit the Cathedral was under occupation by a different threat. More on that in my next post.
7 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2024
Filed under Holidays
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad
9 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2024
Filed under Art, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2024
Filed under Gardens, Norfolk 2022
Billy Knights, a retired farmer began designing and creating the Water Gardens in 1970 in his 70th year. The site was a damp meadow which became too wet for cattle to graze.
Mr Knights’s son jokingly suggested he should have a water garden, which prompted him to draw out plans (on the back of a piece [...]
11 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2024
A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2024
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 18th 2024
Filed under Gloucester 2023, Heritage, Holidays
And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
Ernest Hemingway
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 4th 2024
