Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein
Archive for the tag 'Weekend away'
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 13th 2011
Filed under Bruges 2010, Holidays
PhotoHunt – Self Portrait
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
25 Comments CherryPie on Mar 4th 2011
Filed under Holidays, Kent January 2011
The Royal Observatory…
…from the outside.
Maybe next time I will get to see it from the inside
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2011
Filed under Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
When one teaches, two learn.
Robert A. Heinlein
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2011
Filed under Art, Holidays, Kent January 2011
Figurehead from the Ship Implacable
This figurehead (Medusa) was taken from the ship implacable. This ship was originally named Duguay-Trouin which was a French ship that fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. Later it was captured by the British and renamed.*
*Information taken from museum literature.
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 22nd 2011
Information on the Tarbat Ness lighthouse displayed at the museum:
Designed and installed in the lighthouse by David Stevenson, 1892.
The Tarbat Ness lighthouse was built in 1830 on the site of an ancient Roman fort at the mouth of the Moray Firth in north-east Scotland. It overlooks a wild and windy coast that, in local folklore, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2011
