Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Winchester 2014
After a good nights sleep my back was still playing up so I had to be careful and keep my back straight. The hotel breakfast was good and unlike the breakfast experience in London it was an enjoyable, relaxing affair looking out over the Cathedral grounds.
After breakfast we set off for Avebury to pick up where [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Sep 25th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Winchester 2014
We were a little behind schedule and left an hour later than planned. We had decided against plan A which was a visit to Avebury to break our journey to Winchester. We didn’t want to rush the visit. As we journeyed south we also shelved plan B which was to visit a National Trust property [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Winchester 2014
We had a lovely relaxing eight day holiday in Winchester and after a brief relaxing stop for lunch and exploration on our way home we arrived home quite early on Saturday afternoon. Mr C departed to obtain provisions for the week and I phoned my Mum to see how she was and learned the sad [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Sep 23rd 2014
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 – 1921)
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
This ruined castle was situated next to a delightful tea-shop that we stumbled across on our way home from our Newcastle and Crookham holiday.
I have now come to the end of my Newcastle and Crookham posts and will be moving onto my recent adventures in Mechelen.
The name ‘Brough’ comes from ‘Burg’ or ‘Burgh’ meaning fort, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2014
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
Within St Aidan’s churchyard stands an effigy to Grace Darling:
Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24th November 1815 in her grandfather’s cottage here in Bamburgh. She was the seventh child of nine. At only three weeks old she was taken to live on Brownsman Island, in the Farne islands, where her father, William was lighthouse [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2014
