Budle Bay is in North Northumberland and is a beautiful and important bird sanctuary, with huge mud flats that are exposed at low tide. The whole area is part of the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve and is very popular with birdwatchers, particularly in the winter when thousands of wildfowl and waders spend their winter on [...]
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8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Grace Darling Museum
The photo above shows the coble in which Grace and her father launched in atrocious weather to rescue survivors from the steamship Forfarshire which had struck the Big Harcar rock on the Farnes. The photo below shows St Aidan’s church as viewed from the Grace Darling museum with rather calmer seas in the background.
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Wells 2016
The Stonehenge Landscape…
…walking back from the stones to the visitor centre
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C. S. Lewis
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 18th 2016
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
The Serpent Garden
In the Serpent Garden, a topiary snake entices you past a series of sculptures, in which water flows over polished stainless steel and creates a canyon through which you can try to squeeze without getting wet.
There is also a mushroom-shaped structure on which surface tension and viscosity overcome gravity. The display culminates in the Torricelli [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 17th 2016
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 16th 2016
…looking back at the pond and the owl and the pussycat shown in the previous post.
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2016
