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Happy Mother’s Day :-)

CherryPie — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:59:04 +0000

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 21:37:00 +0000

There has never been a time when you and I and the kings gathered here have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

The Bhagavad Gita

Lights Out

CherryPie — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:00:08 +0000

Lights Out

A Busy Weekend

CherryPie — Sat, 10 May 2014 19:26:20 +0000

Today I am spending the day in Nottingham with my brother to celebrate his birthday and tomorrow is the long awaited Shutterchance meet up at Cosford Museum. As a non shutterchancer I will be gatecrashing the meetup again

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:48:33 +0000

You give your children two things:

you give them roots and you give them wings.

From my Mother always used to say… by Anna Tochter

Freakish Weather

CherryPie — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:04:38 +0000

It is my turn at Vision & Verb today. My post is about the extreme weather that has been taking place in the British Isles recently.

I invite you to join me there.

Sanctuary Knocker – Durham Cathedral

CherryPie — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:41:05 +0000

It is tempting to think of cathedrals simply as places of worship, but theire civic function was as a place of sanctuary. People who had committed a ‘great offence’, for example killing in self defence or escaping from prison, could clame sanctuary within the cathedral for 37 days. after which they either had to have solved their problems or were given a safe passage out of the country. The state of sanctuary was a bit like ‘refuge’ status today – one lost some of one’s rights as a citizen. Durham’s famous sanctuary knocker was allegedly what those claiming sanctuary had to grasp. The current knocker on the cathedral’s door is a replica; the original is on display inside the cathedral.*

*Durham World Heritage Site, A Guide to the Castle and Cathedral – Published in 2013 by Durham World Heritage Site.

52 Photos Project – Gallery 22 – In My Hands

CherryPie — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:22:52 +0000

People who know me well will appreciate this photo

I always have my camera in my hand/s when I am out and about.

More ‘In My Hands’ can be found in the gallery.

In Memoriam

CherryPie — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:18:45 +0000

Today it is 500 hundred years since the tragic battle of Flodden took place. King James IV of Scotland had come south of the border and was killed in the clash to become the last monarch from the British Isles to die in battle.

A moments silence is in order…

This photo depicts the monument that was erected on Piper’s Hill to remember the fallen of both sides. The memorial cross is positioned approximately where the English formed their battle lines. A plaque on the north side of the monument states:

FLODDEN
1513
TO THE BRAVE OF BOTH NATIONS
ERECTED 1910

More information about the battle can be found in my Flodden index.

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:33:22 +0000

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare