Mr C and I enjoyed a New Year’s day visit to Wightwick Manor. We arrived just in time for lunch and were pleased to see a hot turkey, stuffing and gravy roll on the menu. When our lunch arrived it was much larger than we had anticipated! After lunch we visited the house and gallery [...]
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Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Durham 2021
Jesmond Dene
It is probable that the steep sided valley we know as Jesmond Dene has always been wooded, but gradually, industries crept in and by the 19th century the Dene was home to watermills, various quarries and pits and an iron foundry. Prior to the mid 1800s the woodland was probably more straggly than today and interspersed with a heavy undergrowth [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 16th 2021
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
STEPtember – Day Five
We travelled to Nottingham to meet my nephew and his lady for lunch. I clocked up quite a few steps walking between the car park and restaurant. When I got home I topped them up with a quick local walk in the afternoon sunshine.
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 5th 2021
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
A Late Afternoon Walk…
… followed by fine dining on the patio
The weather was hot and humid so I waited until the late afternoon for my walk, choosing a route with plenty of shade.
2 Comments CherryPie on Jul 21st 2021
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Sherborne & Cirencester 2021
Around Sherborne
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 17th 2021
The breakfast experience in the hotel was a little chaotic but the food was excellent. I chose waffles with fruit compote which arrived with a spoonful of clotted cream on top. Clotted cream, or any other cream, is not what I enjoy (or expect) at breakfast, I removed it and put it to the side [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 30th 2021
Filed under Gardens, Out & About
Dorothy Clive Gardens…
… on a sunny Sunday afternoon
The garden’s initial creation lay in Colonel Harry Clive’s wartime decision of 1940, to provide his ailing wife – Dorothy – with a ‘series of interesting walks’ as she battled with Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately Dorothy died in 1942 but Colonel Clive continued work apace throughout the 1940s and 1950s, especially [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2021
