A week in pictures.
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This is my weekly '365 days in pictures' post.
It hasn't been a terribly exciting week, so no really exciting pictures. The high spot of the week was today, but as I am doing Sunday to Saturday weeks, a picture of my brother-in-law's 50th birthday lunch will have to wait until next week!
On Sunday Daughter-dear gave me some 'Early Mothering Sunday' flowers, as she will not be home next week.

On Monday D-d and I paid a flying visit to my Mum's in Bride before I took D-d back to the airport - I was off work on Monday. This is my Mum's bungalow, with her miniature daffodils, and tulips and crocuses in one of the hanging baskets.

Back to work on Tuesday - this is the view from the door of the building I work in - not the view from my window though - that is so high in my office wall that all I can see is sky!

Wednesday - this is my lunch, eaten at home - I often get home for lunch, which is a really nice thing! This is 'still life with oatcakes, peanut-butter and marmalade...

Thursday - when I got home from work at 5.45pm I got the last parking space on the street - and then realised that we seem to be breeding Citroens - the front, red, C4 belongs to our next door neighbour, the blue C3 belongs to the woman across the road, then my white C3, with the black C4 at the end of the row belongs to someone three houses down on our side...

Friday - this is our usual greeting when we come home from work -

And on Saturday I went to see my Mum, took her to do her shopping, and called in at my favourite craft shop, in Ramsey, to get some deep pink card for the children at Church to use today to make 'thank-you' hearts for their Mums, step-Mums, grandmas, whoever, for next week's Mothering Sunday service.

The hearts worked out well - cut two heart shapes out of the card, each about 6" or so wide and high, decorate, staple into a 'pocket', and then put into the pockets slips of paper that say 'I love you because...', for the Mum to take out whenever she needs cheering up!
We had a lovely lunch out at the Hilton for BiL's birthday and, even though we had to leave early so that S2C could come home to bed, I am still totally stuffed!
It hasn't been a terribly exciting week, so no really exciting pictures. The high spot of the week was today, but as I am doing Sunday to Saturday weeks, a picture of my brother-in-law's 50th birthday lunch will have to wait until next week!
On Sunday Daughter-dear gave me some 'Early Mothering Sunday' flowers, as she will not be home next week.

On Monday D-d and I paid a flying visit to my Mum's in Bride before I took D-d back to the airport - I was off work on Monday. This is my Mum's bungalow, with her miniature daffodils, and tulips and crocuses in one of the hanging baskets.

Back to work on Tuesday - this is the view from the door of the building I work in - not the view from my window though - that is so high in my office wall that all I can see is sky!

Wednesday - this is my lunch, eaten at home - I often get home for lunch, which is a really nice thing! This is 'still life with oatcakes, peanut-butter and marmalade...

Thursday - when I got home from work at 5.45pm I got the last parking space on the street - and then realised that we seem to be breeding Citroens - the front, red, C4 belongs to our next door neighbour, the blue C3 belongs to the woman across the road, then my white C3, with the black C4 at the end of the row belongs to someone three houses down on our side...

Friday - this is our usual greeting when we come home from work -

And on Saturday I went to see my Mum, took her to do her shopping, and called in at my favourite craft shop, in Ramsey, to get some deep pink card for the children at Church to use today to make 'thank-you' hearts for their Mums, step-Mums, grandmas, whoever, for next week's Mothering Sunday service.

The hearts worked out well - cut two heart shapes out of the card, each about 6" or so wide and high, decorate, staple into a 'pocket', and then put into the pockets slips of paper that say 'I love you because...', for the Mum to take out whenever she needs cheering up!
We had a lovely lunch out at the Hilton for BiL's birthday and, even though we had to leave early so that S2C could come home to bed, I am still totally stuffed!
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Date: 15/03/2009 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 15/03/2009 08:30 pm (UTC)They never had a big stock, but it was good to support our local area.
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Date: 15/03/2009 08:47 pm (UTC)Love the flowers - and the vase! But, it has to be crunchy peanut butter!
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Date: 15/03/2009 09:11 pm (UTC)Crunchy peanut butter? I don't think it would go with my marmalade, somehow...
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Date: 15/03/2009 09:15 pm (UTC)The year in pictures is a form of self-discipline - and there are a few people I know doing it, but most of them post daily - I thought I might not have time to download from the camera and upload to the internet every day, but I could take the pictures and then do a weekly report!
Mum's bungalow is on a small estate, owned by the government, in the village on the north of the island where her family have lived for over 300 years!
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Date: 15/03/2009 09:34 pm (UTC)In these days when no one stays put in the same place for more than 5 minutes, I find it truly wonderful that you have such deep roots.
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Date: 16/03/2009 12:11 am (UTC)Some time, if you are bored, try clicking on the 'reminiscing' tag in my side bar...
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Date: 15/03/2009 09:04 pm (UTC)I love the cat! :)
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Date: 15/03/2009 09:21 pm (UTC)The cat looks like an ornament, doesn't he?
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Date: 15/03/2009 09:09 pm (UTC)We don't have oatcakes here in the American Midwest. At least I've never seen any. But we do have rice cakes, basically an oatcake but made with puffed rice. I eat my peanut butter and jam (or honey or hazelnut butter or chocolate chips or banana slices) on sliced bread from the grocery store--the cheap, soft kind.
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Date: 15/03/2009 10:24 pm (UTC)My wheat allergy has got worse as I have got older, sadly.
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Date: 15/03/2009 10:31 pm (UTC)Do your curtains say something? It seems they have a secret message...
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Date: 15/03/2009 10:37 pm (UTC)The curtains do, indeed, have writing on them, it is, however, in Latin, and so I have no idea what it actually says - and they are hung so that it is the right way around on the inside. Perhaps I should take a picture of them and see if anyone can tell me what it means!
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Date: 15/03/2009 10:44 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing these... I know I will very much enjoying your weekly reports!
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Date: 15/03/2009 11:25 pm (UTC)I am deep in Middle Earth at the moment, I usually write three or four chapters ahead and so where I am writing in my current story is on the edge of The Mark, at the outskirts of Fangorn - hence the reference copy of TTT.
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Date: 15/03/2009 11:02 pm (UTC)You may be inspiring me with these posts! I don't know if I could manage a photo every day, but it would be a great way for me to get practice with my camera! :) I'm seriously thinking about it!
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Date: 15/03/2009 11:27 pm (UTC)I am finding it good discipline to take my daily pictures - but you could just set yourself a 'one a week' goal.
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Date: 15/03/2009 11:51 pm (UTC)And while you might not think the pictures are all that exciting, I find them fascinating!
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Date: 16/03/2009 02:39 am (UTC)1) Really wonderful that you are doing photos every day. I am not so disciplined. I tried to start doing at least one photo a day, but it only lasted about 6 days and it kept getting latter and latter each day and I don't like to use flash! I think I need a different project, or someone to show me how to be more disciplined.
2) I agree with enigmaticblues - your photos are fascinating.
3) Um, do you mean your birthday when you say mother's day? Or is this another one of the lovely differences between there and here that I am oblivious too? Our mother's day is May 10th.
4) I want to steal your flower arranging. Those red tulips are such a nice frame for the daffodils. I would have just mixed them all up together - boring.
5) There's something so very sweet about the front of you moms's bungalow - must be you I see reflected in the window?
6) Wouldn't be bad to not get home for lunch if you could eat in that park - seems very gentle.
7) Classic 'side plate'! Made me laugh.
8) Will have to check some of our local brit type stores to see if I can find oatcakes for my daughter who also has wheat trouble - they look and sound yummy.
9) A good bit of Tolkien is nice for the noon hour.
10) This still life is classic - maybe I'll try to do some of those, thanks for the inspiration (and I haven't forgotten that I'm going to post some photos on my journal, my computer has been borrowed and I haven't had a way to put my photos online at all - but it's back now, yeah!).
11) Your Citroen's photo reminds me of when I lived in Arizona and belonged to a BMW club. One day we drove en mass up a nearby winding canyon road and there were about 15 2002 (not the year but the model) BMWs in a row!
12) Seems a very nice street.
13) Yes, your kitty looks not just ornamental but positively 2 dimensional! What a nice welcome.
14) How nice you do those things with your mom - I hope my daughter will keep that up with me.
15) Sorry this was such a long 'comment'.
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Date: 16/03/2009 08:41 am (UTC)Mothering Sunday existed long before your Mothers' Day - it is actually the fourth Sunday in Lent and so is, like Easter, a moveable feast. Traditionally you gave flowers, and possibly a Simnel cake, to your mother - the Lent restrictions were lifted for the day.
In more recent years some of the American Mothers Daytraditions have crossed the Atlantic and so we now have Mothers' Day cards and things and it is often caled Mothers Day instead of Mothering Sunday - but the date remains the fourth Sunday in Lent.
Yes - I am reflected there in the bungalow window!
I do occasionaly eat lunch in the park, but the nature of the job means that I am often away from the office at lunch time.
Oatcakes should be wheat-free but aren't always - however the small amount in some of them is OK for me.
And the cat really does look like an ornament!
As for taking Mum shopping - my sister and I alternate week by week to do the weekend shopping with her, and usually call in once a week or so on the 'non-shopping week' in case there is anything she needs doing that she can't do herself.
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Date: 20/03/2009 11:41 pm (UTC)Spring is most certainly springing around here.