Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Cardiff 2025, Holidays
Situated in the Parkgate Hotel in Cardiff The Sorting room offers Michelin starred fine dining.
In the grand rooms of the old Post Office, once filled with hand-written letters and brown-paper packages, now there are glittering chandeliers and plush leather sofas, where elegant lunches are enjoyed and sumptuous dinners savoured in the most glamorous surroundings.
Whether you [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2026
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 16th 2026
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
Robert Burns
2 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2026
I went to the silly goose convention and they all knew you.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 12th 2026
Filed under St Albans 2025
January is the ideal time to set those new boundaries for a sense of peace and well-being.
Charmaine J. Forde
7 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2026
Filed under Cardiff 2025, Holidays
Llandaff Cathedral stands on one of the oldest Christian sites in Britain. In the sixth century St Dyfrig founded a community close to the ford where the Roman road crossed the river Taff. He was succeeded by St Teilo and then Teilo’s nephew, St Euddogwy. These three Celtic Saints remain patron saints of the present [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2025
Filed under Cardiff 2025, Heritage, Holidays
Known as the ‘city within a city,’ Llandaff didn’t become a part of Wales’ capital until 1922. The county borough of Cardiff was extended to include Llandaff and it officially became part of the city – hence its ‘city within a city’ status.
But Llandaff has a history and character of its own that makes it [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 13th 2025
