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 [...]
Archive for the tag 'Roses'
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The Search for the Towton Rose Continues…
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2010
Filed under Heritage
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
Filed under Anecdotes
Keep Calm & Carry On
My blog and I are back at least for now…
There was a lot of correspondence with tech support who after all else failed tried to restore the pages to how they were before they stopped working properly. Even that didn’t work so I was advised to do a manual upgrade of Wordpress. There was one [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Apr 1st 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Hard Work and Fun
This weekend started with a mass of roses, a lot of hard work spring cleaning and getting the spare room ready for visitors. In the evening after the visitors arrived we had fun in the local Chinese Restaurant. It is always interesting to go with different people because this means you end up trying [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2010
Filed under Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Chartwell – Rose Etude
This is the north-east corner of the house, where visitors emerge after the tour. Although it can’t be seen in the picture, on the wall to the left is a slate tablet that commemorates the seventeen benefactors who donated Chartwell to the National Trust in 1946 on the condition that the Churchills could remain [...]
9 Comments CherryPie on Nov 17th 2009
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
I Leave My Heart in an English Garden
I leave my heart in an English garden,
Safe where the elm and the oak stand by.
Tho’ the years rise and roll away
Still shall those watchmen stay,
Bold in the blue of an English sky.
Breezes in the long grass ruffling my hair,
Hollyhock and bluebell scenting the air,
Nothing in the world can ever be
Such a sweet memory:
Nothing in [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2009
