A week in a year in the life...

[curiouswombat]

I 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!

.



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.

Comments

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm cairistiona... hope you don't mind that I added you as a friend. *waves*

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.

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

Condolences on the loss of your aunt. May she rest in peace.

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!

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Quite a week, and a photo a day for 360 days! Wow. I would be sure to forget if I tried that!

[ellaygee-09.livejournal.com]

My condolences on the death of your aunt.

[ellaygee-09.livejournal.com]

Are those palm trees in the second picture?

And the spring flowers look beautiful! Ours are still buried under the snow.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your Aunt. And I have to laugh because all your recent photos of speakr2customrs have shown him sound asleep.
"Leggy" is..just neat!

[calizen.livejournal.com]

Just love all these pictures -- and that you're including the sea but also little things that mean a lot to you -- like crocuses coming up through snow and your shining blue electric tea kettle. Those little touches say a lot about you.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Wonderful photos!!

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).

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

My husband can assume the EXACT same pose. Must be universal man.....

[debris4spike]

That is great - I thought of you today as I had the TV on and there was an old Time-Team from your part of the world.

There are some stunning views - we are so lucky where we both live.

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

Oh you are lucky not to have hard water with that kettle! I have a glass kettle and we have to keep de-scaling it because it doesn't take long before it looks tatty!

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

I could take a photo of my husband right now, and he'd pass as a brother! His hand is in the same position. The main difference between the two is that my husband puts a pillow on his lap, because the cat can hardly resist hopping up and making 'muffins' at his groin if he doesn't cover up!

I marvel that you can have palm trees and snow!

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

"Three Legs" is Manannan mac Lir! ...Er, you may have a different spelling in Manx though.

[jerusha]

Oooh! I love the blue glowy kettle!

And I'm planning on starting this meme on my birthday. I think it will be good.

Whichever way you throw me, I stand

[artykat.livejournal.com]

I love that motto, and it should be my own!

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...

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

This is fun. I'm tempted to do it as well!

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 legolasicontest, btw.

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

The photo meme is tempting. I will think about it before I leap in though.

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.

[winsomeone.livejournal.com]

Personally I love cat pics and you'll probably be bored to tears by me during the year with many pics of the assistants, too.

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.

[kortirion.livejournal.com]

Oooooo photos *slavers in anticipation* and nope.... I never get tired of sea pictures!

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)