When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one’s physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.
Aleister Crowley
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6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 11th 2021
Filed under Holidays, Out & About, Stanton Manor 2020
Out and About in Bath
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2020
Filed under Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment…
Thich Nhat Hanh
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 14th 2020
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Stanton Manor Garden
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2020
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Castle Combe
Castle Combe is a quintessentially English village often named as the ‘prettiest village in England.’ The village sits in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north west Wiltshire.
Castle Combe has featured regularly as a film location, most recently in The Wolf Man, Stardust and Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. It was also used in [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2020
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2020
Filed under Gardens, Harrogate 2020, Heritage, Holidays
Brodsworth Hall Gardens
Take a stroll in the labyrinthine ‘grand gardens in miniature’ now restored to their Victorian heyday. Enjoy the garden vistas and discover enchanting features like the pleasure grounds with their fountain centrepiece or the classical summerhouse or the fern dell and pet cemetery.
With snowdrops and winter evergreens, spring tulips and laburnum and summer roses and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 29th 2020
