Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lenham 2017
…after a weekend away
The few photos I took are organised and ready but I don’t want to start posting about the weekend until after another expedition that we are due to go on tomorrow. More on that later…
PS: there is also a blog post pending on this mornings unsatisfactory attempt to fix the shoddy workmanship [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Gardens, Holidays, Winchester 2016
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
John Donne
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 12th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Winchester 2016
Sometimes, the love we are looking for is right in front of us, too close for the eyes to see.
Let your heart do the searching.
From ‘a Thousand Paths to love’ by David Baird
PS; The sign in the photo states ‘PLEASE KEEP TO THE PATH‘
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2017
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, London 2014
Much of the right-hand court is occupied by the privy garden created by Dudley for the queen. Now known as the Elizabethan Garden, it has recently been recreated on the basis of archaeological evidence and an account of the 1575 festivities by Robert Langham.
Like the queen, visitors approach through the keep’s forebuilding, which was remodelled [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, London 2014
Kenilworth Castle stands on a low hill that was once at the heart of a 1,600 hectare (4,000 acre) park and surrounded by a vast man-made lake. The spectacular ruins, built mostly from the local red sandstone, reveal much of its medieval and Tudor past.
The castle is approached from the south by a causeway that [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Science & Nature, Wells 2016
I couldn’t quite get the angle to frame the moon and the cathedral in the same photograph. I could have done with a bit of time but my companion would probable have got bored and impatient whilst I wandered around for the perfect angle.
The second photo shows the top of one of the trees from [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2017
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Wells 2016
This delightful wooden ram is situated above the the Smith England Hairdressing Salon.
The wooden ram above dates from the shop’s former use by Stonehenge Woolen Industries, set up in the early C20th by Catherine Lovibond, with the aim of regenerating the rural economy. The firm continued in business till 1959. *
The ram was recently renewed [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 14th 2017
