Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
After the weekend storms, bank holiday monday turned out bright and beautiful so we headed of to the Shugborough Estate. It was our first visit since the National Trust had taken over all of the estate after Staffordshire County Council surrendered the lease with the National Trust.
The context of the house and estate are being [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 29th 2018
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For information about this monument see my previous post. The photos above make some of the details on the monument clearer.
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 23rd 2013
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb for a little bit of Shugborough history and its famous connection with photography.
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2013
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Now that I have finished sharing my Paris travels and photos I decided to look back at some of the days out that I had during 2012. I realised that there were quite a few places that I haven’t posted about properly yet.
So now I will take you back to a sunny day in [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2013
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We are now going to go on a little detour from my French travels and Rennes-le-Chateau to a place more local to me, but which has a connection to yesterday’s post.
I mentioned that Sauniere had requested a copy of a painting from the Louvre. This is what the Cadogan Guide has to say about the [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jul 25th 2012
Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.
Neville Goddard (1905 – 1972)
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 22nd 2012
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Out & About
An unusual orange globe appeared in the sky today, so I grabbed my camera and headed out to make the best of the rare occurrence.
I visited Shugborough Hall which I found had changed a lot since I last visited. The car park is in a different place which gave the opportunity to walk through [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jul 21st 2012
