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Royal Connections

CherryPie — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:11:11 +0000

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 holes in the hunting lodge.

King Charles II also spent a day hiding in a nearby Oak tree as Cromwell’s soldiers searched for him below. A descendant of the oak tree can be seen nearby in a place that would once have been covered in oak woodland. The vision of English Heritage is to repopulate the area with oak trees to reconnect the site with its heritage.

Within the house garden another Royal Connection can be found; a plaque beneath an oak tree commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

This tree seedling from the Royal Oak in the adjacent field was planted by Augustus Bishop of Lichfield as a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The parent tree by sheltering King Charles II preserved the Royal Line from extinction.

The daughter tree commemorates the unexpectedly long reign (about 200 years later) of his illustrious successor.

English Heritage are developing the site so there is more to explore than there was previously. We were time constrained so it was not possibly to venture on the walk to the nearby White Ladies Priory.

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:44:28 +0000

Let all your things be done with charity.

1: Corinthians 16:14

Summer in October

CherryPie — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:10:39 +0000

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.

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:02:35 +0000

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 and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:55:05 +0000

See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.

Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:21:53 +0000

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)

Sunflower View

CherryPie — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:13:53 +0000

The butterfly in my Cherie’s Place thought (couple of days ago) was hiding underneath the bloom on the far right

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:10:57 +0000

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. the law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:01:31 +0000

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:12:44 +0000

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)