I thought it appropriate to delve back into my holiday photos from last year and share some views of a place that I know my Dad enjoyed visiting.
I have previously Blogged about Cragside on several occasions. It is a fascinating place and well worth visiting more than once.
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Cragside – Revisited
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 24th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
We love our friends not only for being themselves, but also for what we are when we are with them.
From: a Thousand Paths to friendship by David Baird
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 21st 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Broken
Need I say more?
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
38 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2010
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Preston Tower
Preston Tower is a 14th-century Pele Tower and was built in 1392, when warfare between England and Scotland was endemic.
At the time of Agincourt in 1415, it was one of 78 Pele Towers in the county. Its owners included Sir Guiscard Harbottle, who was slain fighting against James IV at the battle of Flodden in [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2010
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Chillingham Castle
One of my ‘must places to visit’ when I was on my hols in Northumberland was Chillingham Castle because it sounded so interesting. It had the reputation of one of the most haunted castles which I was skeptical about, thinking it a marketing ploy. I will now give you the information I wrote in [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 19th 2009
