Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Situated next to the marble dairy featured in a previous post is the Head Gardener’s House.
Beside the dairy is the ornate Scottish seventeenth-century style Head-Gardener’s House of 1897, directly inspired by Argyll’s Lodging in Stirling, and surrounded by its neat garden behind a fine wrought-iron gate. The high status of the head-gardener in the estate [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2017
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
On the south side of the house, Kinross designed four formal garden terraces still planted in Edwardian style. A geometric terrace is now stocked with floribunda roses and hostas, To one side is a small grass terrace, edged by four large stone vases. Below it, through a wrought-iron gate with griffins adorning the piers, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
The Home of Lord Palmer, Manderston is the Edwardian House par excellence. It was built with no expense spared and with every modern convenience of that era. Here you can see sumptuous staterooms and a silver staircase, the only one in the world. Coupled with the elaborate domestic quarters, it gives an intriguing insight into [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2017
Filed under Crookham 2009, Holidays
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
A Japanese Proverb
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2017
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 [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
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
…walking back from the stones to the visitor centre
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2017
