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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Date: 07/03/2009 03:55 pm (UTC)What lovely pictures... the Isle of Man seems a beautiful place. And love your blue-glowing kettle. My condolences on the death of your aunt. It does seem she lived a very long and full life, and that is always a comfort.
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:00 pm (UTC)The sea looks beautiful, even when grey. I would like to live near the sea some day!
Kieran started a 365 project and did it for about 2.5 months, but then he was really busy at work and missed a few days, and it sort of went off the rails... I wish you luck in your project!
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 04:15 pm (UTC)The kettle is a by-product of the new cooker - I complained about the size of the delivery cost and the connection cost and the 'taking your old one away cost' when they were making a good bit on the cooker itself - the salesman didn't want to set a precedent of waiving any of it - but agreed that I could have 'something to the value' of the delivery and connection charge! I went - 'That!' straight away!
I think I am most pleased with the crocuses this week - perhaps I should choose a 'pic of the week' each time.
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:19 pm (UTC)I love my kettle, and feel sorry for all my American friends who don't have pretty electric kettles...
My island is rather photogenic - although over 65 days you might get a bit bored with sea.
My Aragorn icon is not smiley enough for a hello - here is The Soup Dragon, from children's TV series The Clangers, instead!
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:24 pm (UTC)I really do aim to complete this 365 - but there may be a few pictures taken with my phone, and a few of the kitchen etc... and enough of the sea to bore all but the most enthusiastic. :~)
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 04:31 pm (UTC)And the spring flowers look beautiful! Ours are still buried under the snow.
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:33 pm (UTC)"Leggy" is..just neat!
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 04:43 pm (UTC)After you mentioned it on your LJ, I decided to give this one a try, too... especially since you proposed the idea of only posting the photos once a week. That just seems so much more manageable!
Of course, none of mine are as cool as yours... I'm afraid there were a few days where I remembered right before going to bed and just took a picture of something around the house. :-p
Love your kettle! I'm so jealous that you guys have so many electric kettle options... I really wish they'd catch on here, as well. But for now, they seem to be stuck being specialty items (i.e. hard to find and highly priced).
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:43 pm (UTC)This icon is my grandmother - Aunty Gladys' sister-in-law. It somehow brings home just how different a generation Aunty G was.
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Date: 07/03/2009 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 05:13 pm (UTC)When they first put that sculpture there, about thirty or more years ago, everyone complained that it was horrible, but now it is a real part-of-the-island thing. When it was being cleaned and repaired the space looked really odd.
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Date: 07/03/2009 05:15 pm (UTC)The crocuses are lovely, aren't they? And I am a just a bit of a gadget-geek when it comes to my 'glow in the dark' kettle!
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Date: 07/03/2009 05:17 pm (UTC)I love my kettle - it is a real geek-girl gadget! Pity your electricity supply is so different from ours...
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Date: 07/03/2009 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 06:13 pm (UTC)There are some stunning views - we are so lucky where we both live.
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Date: 07/03/2009 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 06:19 pm (UTC)I remember that Time Team - I think it was damp and windy - no surprises there, then!
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Date: 07/03/2009 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 06:58 pm (UTC)I have a nice little blue with white speckled kettle, but it's not electric, nor does it glow. Ah well! :)
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Date: 07/03/2009 09:11 pm (UTC)I marvel that you can have palm trees and snow!
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Date: 07/03/2009 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 07/03/2009 09:33 pm (UTC)Having both palms and the snow is fun, isn't they?
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Date: 07/03/2009 09:36 pm (UTC)Th link is to an article written in English as a good Manxman would speak it.
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Date: 07/03/2009 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 08/03/2009 12:16 am (UTC)And I'm planning on starting this meme on my birthday. I think it will be good.
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...
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Date: 08/03/2009 12:24 am (UTC)As always when you post pictures of flowers, I've nicked the crocuses for possible use at a later date! I love Brian Kneale's drawings (I have a set of his dinosaur stamps somewhere) but I haven't seen much of his sculpture. Leggy's interesting -- sort of anatomical, but not... Maybe it's AU anatomy.
Your kettle is absolutely stunning.
And thank you for voting over at
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Date: 08/03/2009 12:34 am (UTC)The kettle is wonderful. Electric kettles aren't as popular in the U.S. as they are in the UK or on the Isle of Mann, but we do have them. What brand is yours? I will have to look for one. It has a wonderful sci-fi'ish aspect.
My husband also spends a lot of time napping and he doesn't work nights. I think he studied napping with our cats.
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Date: 08/03/2009 12:36 am (UTC)The kettle really is a thing of beauty, isn't it? It's by Breville, and is also very fast-boiling.
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Date: 08/03/2009 12:38 am (UTC)The kettle is real geekdom in the kitchen, isn't it? And I loves it, Precioussss....
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...
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Date: 08/03/2009 12:45 am (UTC)The kettle is a Breville (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-JK147-Blue-Ice-Kettle/dp/B000ZJ4PZ2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1236473008&sr=8-1) and is the epitome of geekdom in kettles, I think! I love it dearly!
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Date: 08/03/2009 01:20 am (UTC)Pls reassure D-d that we are not so easily bored as she might fear.
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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.
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Date: 08/03/2009 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 08/03/2009 02:44 am (UTC)I also love pics of the Isle-it really is very scenic and so different from my coastline.
Sorry to hear about your Great-Aunt.
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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 :~(
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Date: 08/03/2009 10:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 08/03/2009 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 08/03/2009 12:41 pm (UTC)Maybe when I get a decent digital camera I'll have a go at this, it really does seem a lovely project, I'm very much looking forward watching yours.
Kettle is great - I had one with an orange glow a year os so back - now defunct. Then I had the kitchen decorated a very pale shell pink and since then I plan to accumulate pink bits and pieces. I have the kettle (pink enamel) and have my eye on a toaster when I can afford it. Not that I'm a 'pink' person by any means, I just like the sillyness of a pink kettle... but a glowing pink kettle.... that would be awesome!
And palm trees - are those cordelines? I planted a couple in my garden, just little ones 2' high; one died and one now tops 10'+ ...was just wondering if it going to grow to that scale. I always thought they stayed as bunches of long strap leaves and grew outwards into bigger clumps - obviously not! Not that I'm worried, I do love a good tree. (see icon - my favourite tree in the local park)
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Date: 08/03/2009 01:49 pm (UTC)My kitchen walls are pale pink too, although it is hard to tell in that picture! But I have dark blue work tops and so the blue kettle looks rather good.
Yes - the 'Manx Palms' are actually Cordelines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_tree_(New_Zealand)) - goodness knows when they arrived here from New Zealand as they've been around for a good long time.