Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Salisbury 2014
Just outside the Stonehenge visitor centre are five newly constructed Neolithic Houses. For some time I have been following a blog that showed the houses being constructed and I enjoyed seeing the finished result.
From the English Heritage website:
Five Neolithic Houses furnished with replica Neolithic axes, pottery and other artifacts, reveal the type of homes that [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jun 25th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Salisbury 2014
After breakfast we checked out and Mum got chatting to the receptionist. The topic of her broken leg cropped up and it turned out that the receptionist who was from Brisbane had been working as a physiotherapist before taking time off to go travelling. Her travelling has currently paused whilst she is working in Salisbury.
We [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 14th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Salisbury 2014
After breakfast we walked the short distance to Salisbury Cathedral. I enjoyed my visit to the Cathedral and I wasn’t disappointed after waiting so many years to venture inside. One of the first things we saw as we entered was a Live Video Camera scenes of Peregrine Falcon chicks feeding. They are nesting high up [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 13th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Salisbury 2014
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 11th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Salisbury 2014
We set off in good time and when the time came we stopped at a tea shop for elevenses at a place we tried to stop at a few years ago on another visit to Wiltshire. On that occasion we aborted the attempt, some sort of event was going on which meant parking in a [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Salisbury 2014
I have returned from a weekend away in Salisbury. It is a long time since my last visit, on which occasion I didn’t quite get to visit Salisbury Cathedral. On this occasion I was able venture inside and it was well worth the wait.
I am now busily sorting the photographs I took and will be [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Jun 9th 2014
Filed under Books
Synopsis (from book cover):
Sarum is the towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and properity. In a novel of extraordinary richness the whole sweep of British civilisation unfolds through the story of one place, Salisbury, from beyond recorded time to the present day. The landscaped – as old as time [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2014
