Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
Packwood House is very close to Baddesley Clinton which I recently blogged about. You can see from the exterior that it is completely different in mood and style. A description from the guidebook:
at Packwood the compact house, relatively undistinguished externally, is a1920s and ’30s recasting of a much altered late 16th-century timber-framed building. It is [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 17th 2011
Filed under Out & About, Science & Nature
8 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2011
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The Lebanese Cedars are magnificent, I can remember the days when I could walk beneath their boughs and enjoy them in there glory. Now they are fragile and can only be viewed and enjoyed from a distance…
It reminds me very much of my first visit to Stonehenge where I was able to look up [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2011
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The bluebell is the sweetest of flowers,
That waves in summer air;
Its blossoms have the mightiest power,
To sooth my spirit’s care.
Emily Bronte
12 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2011
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
On my recent visit to Attingham Park I enjoyed the walk along the Bluebell Trail. This took in both the native bluebell and the Spanish invader, a signboard along the trail explained in detail:
Our native bluebell is a typical ‘Atlantic’ species growing only in the moist conditions of Western Europe and reaching its peak of [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2011
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The glasshouses are Victorian, one contains two surviving Black Hamburg vines and the others are used to store house-plants and more tender bedding plants.
4 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2011
