But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
Robert Burns
Archive for the tag 'Poppy'
No Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2026
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
There But Not There
Arundel took part in the ‘There but not there’ national commemorative project by installing 93 silhouettes representing Arundel’s ‘Roll of Honour’.
The project’s aims were simple:
Commemorate those who died in the First World War through installations of silhouettes and Tommies wherever there is a Roll of Honour.
To Educate all generations, particularly today’s younger generation, born nearly 100 years after [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2019
Filed under Ely 2018, Heritage, Holidays
St Mary’s Church – Ely
15 Comments CherryPie on Nov 17th 2018
Filed under Anecdotes, Books, Science & Nature
The Effects of War
One of the books I am currently reading is ‘The Poppy; A history of conflict, loss, remembrance & redemption’ by Nicholas J. Saunders. The book presents aspects of the beauty, pain, pleasure and tragedy of the poppy throughout history. Nicholas takes us on a journey from Ancient Egypt right through to the current day and [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, London 2014
London – Day Three
There was a bit of a kerfuffle as we entered the breakfast room. The man in front of us was insisting his room was booked off on the breakfast sheet. When we were seated a man came and sat next to us and when asked his room number he used the same room number as [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2014
Nature, that universal and public manuscript.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605 – 1682)
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 17th 2013
Filed under This & That
PEACE
Syria is in turmoil, the starving in the world are doing just that, and yet the peace and harmony in which the spirit of the Olympic Games seems to override those whom the Games are meant for. Above all, PEACE: a breathing space for the world to step back from warfare and destitution, to breathe [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 3rd 2012
