We set off on our journey a bit later than we intended but we still managed to arrive at the cafe we planned on visiting in time for lunch. There was a bit of a saga getting served, we were being ignored by the waitress. Eventually we got served and the food was as good [...]
Archive for the tag 'Poppies'
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lincoln 2016
Lincoln – Day One
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 20th 2016
Filed under Art, Colwall 2016, Holidays
Wall Art
Seen on a wall next to the Soldier’s of Gloucestershire Museum.
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2016
Filed under Holidays, Salisbury 2014
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
Gladys Taber
16 Comments CherryPie on Nov 29th 2015
Filed under Heritage
At the Going Down of the Sun…
…and in the morning, we will remember them.
During 2014-2018 a series of nationwide and international events are taking place to commemorate the centenary of World War One. The series of events is being led by the Imperial War Museum, which has a dedicated website entitled 1914.org.
The events will serve to remind us of those who [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2015
Filed under Art, Holidays, Leuven 2015
Poppies for Peace
During my visit to the M Museum in Leuven I noticed these poppies through a museum window. They reminded me of the poppies in the moat at the Tower of London. When I got home I looked up the website that was advertised to find out more about them:
Poppies for Peace is based on an [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 8th 2015
Filed under Art, Out & About
Mass
noun
1: a large body of matter with no definite shape.
“the sun broke out from behind a mass of clouds”
synonyms:
pile, heap, stack, clump, cloud, bunch, bundle, lump
2: a large number of people or objects crowded together.
“a mass of cyclists”
synonyms:
large number, abundance, profusion, multitude, group, crowd, mob,rabble, horde,
barrage, throng, huddle, host, troop, army, herd, flock,drove, swarm, pack, press,
crush, mountain, flood
“a mass of cyclists”
adjective
1: involving or affecting large numbers of people or things.
“the film has mass appeal”
synonyms:
wholesale, universal, widespread, general, large-scale, extensive, pandemic
“mass hysteria”
verb
1: assemble [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 6th 2015
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
Traitor’s Gate
Traitor’s (or Traitors’) Gate was a watergate – originally simply called the Water Gate – beneath St Thomas’s Tower at the Tower of London.
The gate was built in the late 1270s on the orders of Edward I to provide a convenient means by which he could arrive by barge. It acquired its present name as [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 2nd 2015
