The first day of the bank holiday commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II saw us visiting Boscobel House. Boscobel House is famous as a hiding place for King Charles II when fleeing for his life after his defeat in the Civil War. He spent a night in one of priest [...]
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Royal Connections
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 2nd 2022
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Let all your things be done with charity.
1: Corinthians 16:14
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2019
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Summer in October
Summer in England has arrived unseasonably late. I am not complaining, the days have been warm enough for me to enjoy sitting out on the patio reading a book watching the sun go down.
18 Comments CherryPie on Oct 13th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires [...]
19 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 12th 2014
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
All the pictures which science now draws of nature and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact are mathematical pictures… From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
Sir James H. Jeans (1877 – 1946)
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 24th 2013
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Sunflower View
The butterfly in my Cherie’s Place thought (couple of days ago) was hiding underneath the bloom on the far right
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 19th 2012
