A week in a year in the life...
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curiouswombatI have been quiet around here this week! However, I have started the 365 day photo project, and have just started a Flickr account to put them all in - I'll put a link in my sidebar when I get it organised properly.
So - I will give you a quick run-down of the week, in pictures,
Sunday - my husband died... well, he was dead to the world all afternoon anyway - good job I didn't 'marry for the companionship'!
Monday I went to the local hospital to take a clinic, as usual, it was wet. This is the view from the car-park to the hospital itself.
Tuesday was the first Tuesday in the month - so I headed south to take a clinic in Port Erin - it was wet and windy - this is the sea beside the main road at Gansey.
When I woke on Wednesday it had been snowing. I was too busy hacking the snow off the windscreen of the car to take a picture. However, by the afternoon the sun had come out - I passed through St. John's and stopped to take a picture of some crocuses.
Thursday - up north to Ramsey - the sun shone, but it was cold - and there was still snow anywhere much above sea-level - but only a dusting -
Friday I was off work. I spent the morning at a funeral - but thought it not really the place to take photos! My great-aunt had lived to 98, and was ready to go, so it was not one of those very, very sad funerals - just an acceptance that she had moved on.
However, by mid-afternoon I was doing something much more cheerful - I collected Daughter-dear from the airport - she is on a flying visit home, to see friends before they go travelling for a year or two, celebrate a couple of birthdays etc. It was a damp, grey, afternoon - the weather at the funeral had been much more cheerful! This is recognisable to most Manx people - 'Leggy' here is a sort of 'Welcome Home' figure as you step outside of the airport building. (He is really called 'Three Legs' and is a bronze sculpture by Brian Kneale.)
As for today - it is damp, and boring outside - a day for cleaning the kitchen, sitting playing on the computer, and doing a bit of reading. All go better with a hot drink. So here is my kettle - because I love it, and yes - it really does glow blue whilst it boils!
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I also took a couple of pictures of my shiny new cooker - I'll post them later when I upload them onto my usual photobucket account.
So - I will give you a quick run-down of the week, in pictures,
Sunday - my husband died... well, he was dead to the world all afternoon anyway - good job I didn't 'marry for the companionship'!
Monday I went to the local hospital to take a clinic, as usual, it was wet. This is the view from the car-park to the hospital itself.
Tuesday was the first Tuesday in the month - so I headed south to take a clinic in Port Erin - it was wet and windy - this is the sea beside the main road at Gansey.
When I woke on Wednesday it had been snowing. I was too busy hacking the snow off the windscreen of the car to take a picture. However, by the afternoon the sun had come out - I passed through St. John's and stopped to take a picture of some crocuses.
Thursday - up north to Ramsey - the sun shone, but it was cold - and there was still snow anywhere much above sea-level - but only a dusting -
Friday I was off work. I spent the morning at a funeral - but thought it not really the place to take photos! My great-aunt had lived to 98, and was ready to go, so it was not one of those very, very sad funerals - just an acceptance that she had moved on.
However, by mid-afternoon I was doing something much more cheerful - I collected Daughter-dear from the airport - she is on a flying visit home, to see friends before they go travelling for a year or two, celebrate a couple of birthdays etc. It was a damp, grey, afternoon - the weather at the funeral had been much more cheerful! This is recognisable to most Manx people - 'Leggy' here is a sort of 'Welcome Home' figure as you step outside of the airport building. (He is really called 'Three Legs' and is a bronze sculpture by Brian Kneale.)
As for today - it is damp, and boring outside - a day for cleaning the kitchen, sitting playing on the computer, and doing a bit of reading. All go better with a hot drink. So here is my kettle - because I love it, and yes - it really does glow blue whilst it boils!
.I also took a couple of pictures of my shiny new cooker - I'll post them later when I upload them onto my usual photobucket account.
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Whichever way you throw me, I stand
Date: 08/03/2009 12:19 am (UTC)I love your idea of taking photos for every day. I am going to try to adopt it. I have such a limited life that I will surely bore people to tears, but my husband says that I should go for it, so I will. Knowing you are doing it, too, will help.
Are you a doctor? Going to clinics...
Re: Whichever way you throw me, I stand
Date: 08/03/2009 12:41 am (UTC)I am treating it as a sort of self-discipline.
I am not a doctor, but a Clinical Nurse Specialist, so carry my own caseload, run my own clinics etc. - my specialism is usually a bit of a conversation stopper - I am a Continence Specialist...
Re: Whichever way you throw me, I stand
Date: 08/03/2009 01:26 am (UTC)I think it will be a good discipline for me as well. it isn't the easiest thing to put pictures up, using Photobucket as I am. I like them to be larger than what LJ gives, and I doubt there's enough room there anyway.
I like it that she used the vacuum cleaner! I can also use this as the first year of my new name. i changed my user name from pastorbear to quilterbear a few minutes ago.
Re: Whichever way you throw me, I stand
Date: 08/03/2009 10:11 am (UTC)I use photobucket for my journal pictures too, but I decided to start a new account for these, so that I could make them public rather than private. Photobucket used to only allow one account per e-mail, and I already have one for me and one for church, so I thought I would open a flickr one instead. But, unless I am missing something, it is harder to upload them to flickr :~(