This evening the sunset over my garden was more soft and gentle than it was yesterday.
Earlier in the day I had a garden walk in the sunshine 
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2020
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2020
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, York 2020
St George’s Chapel – Sheffield Cathedral
St George’s Chapel is dedicated to the memory of all ranks of the York and Lancaster Regiment.
As well as the regimental colours, the chapel holds the ‘roll of honour’ books of the regiment from 1914 to 1968, the hand embroidered kneelers all bear the regimental crest; and the wooden stalls or seats are dedicated to individual members. *
*from the Sheffield Cathedral guide book
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 2nd 2020
I have not felt safe stepping out on my frequent walks from my doorstep due to an excessive number of walkers at the front an back of my garden, disregarding the current virus related distancing rules. Few people walked on those paths before…
So I was happy today when he sun did not put its hat on and it was rather cool outside. As predicted the Boris walkers that had made me reluctant to go on my local walks were nowhere to be seen!
I had to wait and pause on a couple of occasions during my walk to allow ’safe distancing’. I took the opportunity to take a couple of photographs with my phone camera along the way.
It was great to be able to go for a lovely afternoon walk as I did in the good old days (a couple of weeks ago).
When I arrived at one of the pools that I frequent there was a noticeable absence of ducks and geese, only a few were present. It was almost as if they knew there was a problem going on in the world…
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 2nd 2020
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2020
The longest journey begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 30th 2020
At the beginning of March it was lovely to be able to chat to strangers as we enjoyed our walks before the world shifted into unfamiliar and surreal.
This is the tale of an encounter that happened on one of my local walks:
In the morning I waited in for a delivery that didn’t show up leading me to a window of opportunity after lunch for a local walk. I chose my direction and and one of my favourite benches was unusually vacant so I took my opportunity to sit and rest a while overlooking a pool watching the antics of the ducks and geese.
Just after I sat down I heard the exclamation ‘Oh! the bench is taken now’. A fisherman was walking along the path and settled his kit to the side of where I was perched on the bench.
I said I would move up so he could sit on the end of the bench. He protested but I moved anyway and he sat on the opposite end of the bench.
We got chatting and I asked if there were a lot of fish to be caught. He confirmed the were and some surprisingly big ones for a small pool. He showed me a picture (on his mobile phone) of him holding a large fish that he had caught recently.
As we were chatting the solitary white duck that frequents the pool was hovering around knowing that fishermen always have food. The fisherman fed the duck calling him Billy, My new found friend proceeded to tell me the story of how the duck arrived at the pool.
Apparently about 10 years ago a lady approached the pool with a shopping trolley from which she deposited three white ducks in the pool. Over the years two of the ducks met with unfortunate accidents (I will spare you the details) so now Billy was alone.
I was too busy chatting that I forgot to take photographs. The accompanying photographs are from walks that I took around the pool in 2019.
(written for a Country Walking #walk1000miles Challenge).
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 27th 2020
