I am really enjoying my volunteering opportunity in Visitor Reception at Attingham Park. I work alongside some lovely people both permanent staff and volunteers.
I am so grateful for this opportunity to fulfil one of the aspirations I held when I took early retirement.
My post volunteering walks are a bonus but… I am already thinking towards [...]
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Post Shift Blooms
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 23rd 2024
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Easter Ready
Spring is springing and Attingham Park is Easter ready.
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 19th 2024
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Another Shift…
…. followed by a different walk
This walk was there and back again. I wasn’t able to navigate my way around a small muddy area and I wasn’t in the mood for walking through mud
I ‘was’ in the mood for the glorious sunshine after so many rainy days. Lucky me for choosing an sunny [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 5th 2024
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Volunteering Followed by a Walk
Today was my second stint of volunteering in the Visitor Reception Area at Attingham. So far I am really enjoying the opportunity.
After scanning visitors cards on entry to Attingham it was my turn for a brisk walk around the parkland.
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2024
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About, This & That
All Signed Up
One of my aspirations after I took early retirement was to become a volunteer in the Visitor Reception Area at Attingham Park. I regularly checked volunteer opportunities at Attingham but the result was always ‘no volunteering opportunities currently available’.
Then we had Covid-19 interrupting normality leading me to stop checking for volunteering opportunities.
In early January this [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 9th 2024
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All That Glitters…
… Attingham Park decked out for Christmas
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 4th 2023
Filed under Faith Foundations, Gardens, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 8th 2023