Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
… on a sunny Sunday afternoon
The garden’s initial creation lay in Colonel Harry Clive’s wartime decision of 1940, to provide his ailing wife – Dorothy – with a ‘series of interesting walks’ as she battled with Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately Dorothy died in 1942 but Colonel Clive continued work apace throughout the 1940s and 1950s, especially in The Quarry Garden which covers approximately 2 acres.
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Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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Part of this walk took me along fully urban routes rather than my more normal semi-urban routes. I did not photograph the fully urban areas. I only walked them to get my bearings on how to link local pathways together. My explorations led to a 7 mile walk in the afternoon sunshine.
It was not the best of routes for a ’sit and rest a while’ bench, I had to do a detour to experience that pleasure 
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… followed by the arrival of my new garden bench and later fine dining at Chez Nous.
11 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2021
I started my graffiti walk at Leegomery Centre, walking along the Silkin Way. The first graffiti that I noticed was on the pathway just beyond the plunge pool.
I will only share some of the graffiti because I don’t wish to promote the conspiracy theory/political message that the graffiti artist was promoting. Some of the graffiti had been erased since my last walk, but sadly the offensive messages still remain.
As I approached Tee Lake the graffiti trail petered out. I noticed that the winter mud had disappeared allowing me explore new areas by the lake and walk around most of the lake. I had the perfect window of opportunity soon that pathway will be overgrown and inaccessible again.
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 13th 2021
