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Gosh - I am now into the third month, and my third 'set' on Flickr!

So - what's been happening this week? Apart, that is, from conversations on sodomy and the Borg...

The weather has varied from sunny to pouring with rain, often over a two minute time-span, I have been all over the island for work, and recreated a bible story with gingerbread men...



Monday I met a friend for coffee before I started my usual clinic session at our main hospital. The hospital has a lovely coffee shop - honestly. As it was such a nice day we took our coffee out into the courtyard to drink it. This is, obviously, not us, but we were at the next table to those people -

365 week 9 Monday

Tuesday I had someone from our sister United Reformed Church round in the evening, whilst we looked at ways of making our church website into an all-island one. I currently maintain the St Andrew's one. So I spent much of the evening looking at this -


365 week 9 Tuesday

Which is my laptop, on my knee, with the church website on it. If you are interested in our church website there is a link in my sidebar!

Wednesday we had a meeting at Hospice. The Hospice has been in its current, beautiful, new building for over 18 months now, and has a garden designed by famous garden designer Dermot Gavin. But, to be honest, it is still rather bleak -

365 week 9 Wednesday

Last summer the Day Hospice put lots of bright plants in tubs around their doors and windows - not in keeping with his green theme, but I liked them!

Thursday's picture is of some fishing boats in Peel harbour - mostly scallop boats. It is a pity, at least for one or two of my friends, that the name of the one on the right is not clearer -

365 week 9 Thursday

It is called 'Manx Ranger'...!!

Friday is also a sea picture - I remember commenting when I started this project that there would probably be a lot of sea! I was coming down from Onchan to Douglas, early afternoon, when I realised that Snaefell, our smallest ferry (although no-one local ever says 'we are getting the ferry', we always say 'we are getting the boat'!) was just heading into harbour.

She is a fairly small true catamaran - a real SeaCat. As you can see, it was one of those days that had unsettled weather - and the sea was rather unfriendly looking and with a moderate swell - it probably wasn't the pleasantest of crossings - I bet a good few of the passengers would have been glad to be almost into the harbour!

365 week 9 Friday

Saturday I went north to my Mum's. It is the time of the year when the gorse is in bloom, and the island looks very yellow.

365 week 9 Saturday

I have a few other pictures showing the gorse, the views etc. - another post later in the week, I think.

And today I was at church, where some of the children and I recreated the story of Jacob's Ladder using Cadbury's chocolate fingers and gingerbread men...

365 week 9 Sunday

Great fun was had by all, especially in decorating the gingerbread men so that everyone would know which was their own one tot take home later! Also, I must add, that I have the children's parents' permission to share the pictures from church.



Poor husband has spent a lot of time trying to get our internet to stay reliably connected, and has had little time to write himself - I feel a bit guilty about this, as mine is going off more than his is! Then, to add insult to injury, this morning, just after I got up and so just before he went to bed, the poor man had to deal with the cat proudly presenting him with a not-yet-dead bird!

I have just hung some washing out - so you can tell that today is rather nice - although, while the washing was in the machine it had rained heavily for a few minutes and the yard was all wet - i thought this mad weather was supposed to be over by May!
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