Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Knole is the home of the Sackville family and was the childhood home of Vita Sackville-West and she loved it with a passion. The house passed down through the male line of the family so due to a technicality Vita was unable to inherit the house:
‘Sissinghurst and and St Loup are my spiritual [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays
What a stressful morning! At least the sun has come out now reminding me that soon I will be able to get out and about enjoying gardens again. In the meanwhile I still have the photographs from previous garden visits. These were taken at Sissinghurst which is a garden in a ruin [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
I think with all the snow and chilliness that we have been having recently I need to remind everyone of warmer days. We do have more snow forecast overnight, but we have been told we couldn’t use that as an excuse for missing the last session of our Business Excellence Course at work (not that [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 12th 2010
Learning without thought is labour lost;
and thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2010
Filed under Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
The inner courtyard of Ightham Mote is a good place to explore the history of the building because you can see features from all its different periods. In the centre of the courtyard is a well head which now serves as a fountain. There is also an appropriately half-timbered Grade I listed dog [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2010
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream
Malcolm Muggeridge
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2010
