Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Sherborne 2019
…the birthplace of vaccination
On my first visit to Berkeley Castle in 2019 I visited the adjacent museum that was formerly Dr Jenner’s house. The museum displays explain how he became the pioneer of vaccinations. He experimented with the mild disease of cowpox leading him to find way to counteract the devastating disease of Smallpox.
The smallpox [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2021
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Sherborne 2019
The Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in Berkley, Somerset. It is a Grade II* listed building built in 1751.[1]
The church, dedicated to St Mary, was built in 1751 by Squire Thomas Prowse of the adjacent Berkley House.[1]
The whitewashed stone church has a west tower and a hip roof with stone slates, while the nave has a central [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 2nd 2021
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things are connected.
Chief Seattle
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2021
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated, they represent a bridge between the invisible and the visible.
Paulo Coelho
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2021
Filed under Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment…
Thich Nhat Hanh
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 14th 2020
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Stanton Manor 2020
Castle Combe is a quintessentially English village often named as the ‘prettiest village in England.’ The village sits in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north west Wiltshire.
Castle Combe has featured regularly as a film location, most recently in The Wolf Man, Stardust and Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. It was also used in [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2020
