We took mum on a day out to Dorothy Clive Garden. The weather was kind to us and the garden was spectacular with the Laburnum arch and Rhododendrons in full bloom. We toured the top part of the garden before lunch and the bottom part of the garden after lunch. Before we left we couldn’t [...]
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Dorothy Clive Garden With Mum
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 3rd 2021
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Dorothy Clive Gardens…
… 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 [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2021
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 11th 2018
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world – no matter how imperfect – becomes rich and beautiful, for it consists solely of opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 13th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
Mechthild of Magdeburg
10 Comments CherryPie on May 22nd 2016
He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 14th 2015
