This is the first time I have visited the Rose Garden when it is in full bloom, it was worth the wait. It is filled with David Austin roses, so it is a little bit like home from home for me although I have to confess that I have never visited David Austin Roses… [...]
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Alnwick – The Rose Garden
12 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2011
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PhotoHunt – Triangle
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
26 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2011
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PhotoHunt – Anniversary
I didn’t want to go with the obvious memorial theme so I struggled a bit with ideas. It is one of my nephews birthdays today, so I did think of that and I thought of wedding anniversarys but I didn’t have quite the right photo for either of those thoughts.
I decided to stick with the [...]
26 Comments CherryPie on Sep 11th 2010
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The Search for the Towton Rose Continues…
Since my last post about the search for the Towton Rose there have been some fresh leads but the Rose has still not been located and the search continues. In a recent Blog post George Algar notes that all the roses that have been identified as being taken from the battlefield are of the same [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2010
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In Search of the Towton Rose
Earlier this week the Shropshire Star published an article about Shrewsbury Museums curator, Peter Boyd’s, quest to find the long lost Towton Rose. It is reported to have grown in its hundreds on the graves of the fallen in the in the Battle of Towton that took place during the Wars of the Roses. [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 10th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
22 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2010
