Vulcan XH558 is reaching the end of her flying days and over the weekend she flew a couple of farewell fly past tours. I was able to stand on a grassy mound at Cosford in order to watch her fly by.
We heard her before we saw her because her approach was obscured by the Cold [...]
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Plane Spotting
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 12th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of others; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another, for as you are, you are.
Thomas A Kempis
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 16th 2015
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Cupcakes and Lemonade
As we were leaving our house this morning I noticed one of the neighbours and a young girl at the end of their drive writing on a flip chart and I wondered what they were up to. As we drove past, we noticed a table with cakes that appeared to be for sale. By now [...]
25 Comments CherryPie on Aug 1st 2015
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Sugnall Walled Garden Revisited
On Sunday (yesterday) we took my in-laws out for lunch to Sugnall walled garden. It was a belated fathers day trip due to us traveling home from our holidays on fathers day.
We found that Sugnall walled garden was completely transformed since our previous visit. Everything was in full bloom and the summer marquee was in [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2015
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A perfect Day
I booked today off work so I could spend some time in my local memorial garden followed by lunch out. I was hoping for a nice relaxing day away from work and was rather dismayed when I arrived at home yesterday to find that one of the front tyres on my car looked rather deflated. [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2015
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Salute to the V Force
The weather was perfect for a visit to Cosford to watch Vulcan XH558 on one of its farewell flights. We allowed plenty of time to get to Cosford because I had a feeling the car parks would be fairly full. We had to queue to get in and cars were being squeezed onto every available [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Jun 27th 2015
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Blenheim Palace – The Grand Cascade
Designed by ‘Capability’ Brown in the 1760s, the Grand Cascade at the western end of the lake is one of England’s most picturesque waterfalls. Here the Glyme plunges dramatically from the lake and the slowly winds south-westwards under the ‘New’ Bridge designed by Sir William Chambers, eventually joining the River Evenlode, a tributary of the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 15th 2015
