Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
… followed by sunset at Horton
Today was the first time for three weeks that I was able to manage a post volunteering walk in Attingham Park. I wasn’t able to due to the restrictive visiting hours in hospital. Mum has moved from hospital but is not yet home.
I was also pleasantly suprised to find that [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 16th 2024
Filed under Art, Holidays, Kent January 2011
This figurehead (Medusa) was taken from the ship implacable. This ship was originally named Duguay-Trouin which was a French ship that fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. Later it was captured by the British and renamed.*
*Information taken from museum literature.
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2011
Information on the Tarbat Ness lighthouse displayed at the museum:
Designed and installed in the lighthouse by David Stevenson, 1892.
The Tarbat Ness lighthouse was built in 1830 on the site of an ancient Roman fort at the mouth of the Moray Firth in north-east Scotland. It overlooks a wild and windy coast that, in local folklore, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2011
Filed under Holidays, Kent January 2011
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2011
The other place I visited on my recent trip to Kent was Greenwich. There was a difference of opinion on what we should do whilst we were there. We settled for the National Maritime Museum in the end. The museum is being refurbished in places meaning some of the rooms were closed and some of [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2011
