In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert A Heinlein
Archive for the tag 'Northumber- land'
Filed under Crookham 2009, Holidays
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 30th 2011
Filed under Anecdotes, Crookham 2009, Out & About
The Doorbell & the Shoe
For this story I need to start off with an incident that occurred last year.
One evening when I was visiting my parents I pressed the doorbell as usual and it played a completely different melody to usual. My Dad opened the door and we commented on it and he tried it out a few times [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
We love our friends not only for being themselves, but also for what we are when we are with them.
From: a Thousand Paths to friendship by David Baird
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 21st 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2010
Filed under Crookham 2009, Heritage, Holidays
Preston Tower
Preston Tower is a 14th-century Pele Tower and was built in 1392, when warfare between England and Scotland was endemic.
At the time of Agincourt in 1415, it was one of 78 Pele Towers in the county. Its owners included Sir Guiscard Harbottle, who was slain fighting against James IV at the battle of Flodden in [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Crookham 2009, Holidays, Science & Nature
Chillingham Castle
One of my ‘must places to visit’ when I was on my hols in Northumberland was Chillingham Castle because it sounded so interesting. It had the reputation of one of the most haunted castles which I was skeptical about, thinking it a marketing ploy. I will now give you the information I wrote in [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 19th 2009
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PhotoHunt – Fast
The car was traveling fast, not the cows
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
26 Comments CherryPie on Dec 18th 2009
