One of my aspirations after I took early retirement was to become a volunteer in the Visitor Reception Area at Attingham Park. I regularly checked volunteer opportunities at Attingham but the result was always ‘no volunteering opportunities currently available’.
Then we had Covid-19 interrupting normality leading me to stop checking for volunteering opportunities.
In early January this [...]
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All Signed Up
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 9th 2024
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‘Marathon Plus’ Completion
I have completed my challenge to walk 30 miles in a week for World Cancer Day which takes place on the 4th February each year. My mileage total is 32.59. I have made my donation of 1 pound for each mile I pledged to walk to Cancer Research UK.
The walking adventure that completed my challenge…
After my [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2022
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New Year – New Growth
I spotted these lovely snowdrops whilst checking out a route that I intend to add as an event in one of my local walking groups. A few weeks before Christmas I had a failed attempt at adding the event. Facebook showed others a different time (one hour later) than the one I had scheduled for [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 14th 2022
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 9th 2014
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2013
