If you don’t like yourself, you can’t like other people.
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Archive for the tag 'Strawberries & Cream'
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 24th 2011
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens
New Growth
My Mum mentioned recently that quite a few plants in her garden had not made it through the particularly cold winter. She was especially sad that the ones my Dad had bought that unsuspectingly (several weeks after the order) arrived on the day of his funeral seem not to have made it through the winter [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 9th 2011
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Back to Normal
My visitors have now departed and I have the house back to myself and everywhere is quiet. I got woken up several times in the early morning by a squeaking door which never squeaks when I use it…
At lunch time we attended a christening where the minister arrived just a few minutes before the service [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2010
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100 Photos 39 :: Bokeh
When I looked out onto the patio a couple of days ago I noticed that the rose I bought earlier in the year had unexpectedly produced some more buds. I thought it had finished flowering for the year some time ago so it was a pleasant surprise and it gave the ideal opportunity for experimenting [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 18th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Out & About
The Magical Mystery Tour
The money that was received from friends in memory of my Dad was donated to the Heart Foundation and the Lingen Davies Cancer Relief Fund. The latter showed their appreciation by sending my Mum a certificate that entitled her to a memorial rose from a specialist rose centre near to the hospital. As today would [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2010
