Archive for the tag 'There’s Always One'
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, York 2023
The Wanderer Returns…
… from a weekend away in York
I always find the light from the top window panels above the ‘Five Sisters’ mesmerising and inspiring.
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 8th 2023
Filed under Anecdotes, This & That
A Review of 2022 in Twelve Photographs
Some special moments and memories from 2022, one from each month of the year. The photographs are taken from a calendar that I created for myself and due to the printing deadline, December’s photograph is also from November.
1. The Inclined Plane, Coalport, 2. Lichfield Cathedral, 3. Local Pathway, 4. Llangollen Canal Nr Chirk Aqueduct, 5. [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 1st 2023
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
Brooklands Museum
Brooklands Museum houses historic aircraft including a Vickers Wellington bomber recovered from Loch Ness in 1985, a British Airways Concorde, G-BBDG (c/n 202), the UK’s first production Concorde, and now also owns the 40% scale Concorde model “G-CONC” displayed for many years as a gate guardian at Heathrow Airport, until movement in 2007. After restoration and repainting, the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 25th 2022
Berkhamsted Castle was first built as a motte-and-bailey castle in the late 11th century. Kept in royal hands, it was occupied by key figures of the Middle Ages, such as Thomas Becket, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and the Black Prince. Much of its stone was plundered during the 16th century.
The lodge situated at the site [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 20th 2022
Filed under Out & About
At the Going Down of the Sun…
… and in the morning we will remember them
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 12th 2022
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
An Impromptu Adventure
Mr C surprised me with an impromptu visit to Hodnet Hall Gardens, a place I planned to visit (alone) the previous week but having tested positive for Covid I chose to stop at home to keep my bugs to myself.
We had lunch before walking round the gardens and grounds on one of the last open [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Oct 30th 2022
