Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes
… the long way round
Recently we have been visiting my mum after I have ‘been to school’ but today that proved difficult. Just over a week ago I noticed that our hot water cylinder had developed a leak. British Gas assessed the situation and confirmed that we needed a new water cylinder but before it [...]
No Comments CherryPie on May 7th 2026
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I haven’t quite made 1000 miles in 2025. A deluge of problems and challenges cascaded in during the last three months of the year. The problems and challenges are ongoing…
Despite all these ongoing problems I pledge to walk 1000 miles in 2026.
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 30th 2025
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, York 2020
On Monday I returned from a mini break in York, walking the glass trail, the walls and exploring the city beyond.
We returned home to find that we had an electrical problem, part of the electrics were off and the fridge and freezer had defrosted. We reset the trip switch but it tripped several times [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 5th 2020
Filed under This & That
… I have a post (on war elephants) ready to share but I am unable to upload the photos to accompany it.
Grrr!
Hopefully normally service will be resumed soon…
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 23rd 2019
Filed under Anecdotes
This morning when I turned the key in my car ignition nothing happened… I was reminded that on Friday the car had been a bit sluggish starting and that I had taken it for a bit of drive on Saturday to boost the battery.
Now I was in a bit of a dilemma. How was I [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 9th 2015
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The weekend before last, our washing machine decided to leak onto the kitchen floor. We had been experiencing a few other niggles with it and considering its venerable age we decided it would be more economical in the long run to purchase a new one. We went to a local shop to order a new [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2014
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I was sitting quietly minding my own business yesterday afternoon when suddenly the silence was shattered by several house alarms going off at once. The power had gone off. When it came back on again it became apparent that the incident had fried the network router, so I no longer had an internet connection.
On further [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 18th 2011
