365 Project - Week 14.
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curiouswombatSo - it has been a very busy week in off-line life!
Mum got home from hospital on Monday - I have been up to see her a couple of times since - my sister has been off work this week, so she popped in on the other days. Mum is walking quite well with a zimmer frame, and looking well in herself. D-d and I went to see her this afternoon - D-d has been really worried about her Granny and wanted to see her for herself.
Ah, yes - Daughter-dear got home yesterday for a few days - she has actually finished her Finals - every paper is completed and handed over, the dissertation is in, every essay has been marked off as complete - all she has to do now is wait for the results... So she came home for a few days of TT.
TT - well that has been keeping us busy - our church is on the course, and we open it each practice and race period for people to use the toilets, and buy hot drinks and snacks. That's been keeping me busy most evenings - and then taking S2C to work each evening as the TT disrupts his bus to work, coming home and baking more cakes or cookies for the next night, and so on!
And at work I have moved office.
Busy week.
So - apologies for not having the next chapter of Brotherhood ready - but it is fairly much completed and S2C is off for 5 nights, so it should get betaed fairly quickly after I write the last paragraph!
And the pictures from this week sometimes reflect the above - and sometimes don't ....
Monday - this picture shows the ancient pear tree in my backyard. It is not very fruitful, although the blooms are pretty, but they are soon gone - and so I decided to brighten it for a little more of the summer by planting a clematis under it, in a pot. It has taken it a few years to really establish - but now, my pear tree looks like this -
Tuesday - I moved office in the morning - the men who moved everything were very efficient, and it went pretty well. By the time I got home at 5.30 I was too tired to actually go to do TT Teas, and had the night off. I took a cold drink out to the garden and caught the silly cat sunbathing -
Pity he chose one of the dustiest bits of garden where I haven't weeded between the paving stones...
Wednesday - a close up of a hedgerow plant - a vetch. I took it at the side of the road near my mother's house - I was calling in after work to see how she was doing.
Thursday - I actually took some pictures at the TT Teas - some for the church website, although I haven't got around to putting them there yet. This one just shows some of the home-made goodies - there had been more, but I only got the camera out towards the end of the session!
Friday - by the end of the day, despite home visits etc. meaning that I had only had an hour or two at a time to organise my new work space, I decided I was pretty happy with it -
I will doubtless get used to sharing eventually.
Saturday. I went to pick D-d up from the airport. I allowed plenty of time, as the flights are often in early, and I wasn't sure what the traffic would be like. So I had time to admire the art exhibition in the terminal building. Do other people/places have art exhibitions in their airports, or is it just us?
Anyway - some of my BtVS friends might remember the weird series of Spike as a fairy stuff that was around a couple of years ago... I wonder why that came to mind when I saw this?
The added 'joke' is that on our way to the airport we cross The Fairy Bridge - I now imagine little guys like this sitting under it. The drawing is by an artist called Julia Ashby Smyth.
And that brings us to Sunday. There was only one child at church today - all the rest were away visiting family or on holiday - it is our half-term for TT, but not in the rest of the British Isles - so a really good time for cheap flights etc.! She and I had fun - we had a few spare gingerbread men, and the recreation of Jacob's Ladder with gingerbread men and chocolate fingers was such a roaring success a few weeks ago ... so we got out the icing again... We found a gingerbread man with a broken leg - and used him to do the story of the beggar at the Beautiful Gate, one gingerbread man got a lot of icing and became Joseph - and so on!!
Then after the service D-d wanted to look at the bikes for a while, and I thought perhaps you might like to see what TT is really like. So - this picture is nothing to do with the racing, except that it is taken near the Pits which happen to be within easy walking distance of church. It just shows how people park their bikes, and then gather to talk, watch the world go by, and admire other people's bikes. I might post a few more pictures later this week - but this is a taste -
I really must get on, now, with doing a leaflet for the church flower festival in .. meep! four weeks!!
Mum got home from hospital on Monday - I have been up to see her a couple of times since - my sister has been off work this week, so she popped in on the other days. Mum is walking quite well with a zimmer frame, and looking well in herself. D-d and I went to see her this afternoon - D-d has been really worried about her Granny and wanted to see her for herself.
Ah, yes - Daughter-dear got home yesterday for a few days - she has actually finished her Finals - every paper is completed and handed over, the dissertation is in, every essay has been marked off as complete - all she has to do now is wait for the results... So she came home for a few days of TT.
TT - well that has been keeping us busy - our church is on the course, and we open it each practice and race period for people to use the toilets, and buy hot drinks and snacks. That's been keeping me busy most evenings - and then taking S2C to work each evening as the TT disrupts his bus to work, coming home and baking more cakes or cookies for the next night, and so on!
And at work I have moved office.
Busy week.
So - apologies for not having the next chapter of Brotherhood ready - but it is fairly much completed and S2C is off for 5 nights, so it should get betaed fairly quickly after I write the last paragraph!
And the pictures from this week sometimes reflect the above - and sometimes don't ....
Monday - this picture shows the ancient pear tree in my backyard. It is not very fruitful, although the blooms are pretty, but they are soon gone - and so I decided to brighten it for a little more of the summer by planting a clematis under it, in a pot. It has taken it a few years to really establish - but now, my pear tree looks like this -
Tuesday - I moved office in the morning - the men who moved everything were very efficient, and it went pretty well. By the time I got home at 5.30 I was too tired to actually go to do TT Teas, and had the night off. I took a cold drink out to the garden and caught the silly cat sunbathing -
Pity he chose one of the dustiest bits of garden where I haven't weeded between the paving stones...
Wednesday - a close up of a hedgerow plant - a vetch. I took it at the side of the road near my mother's house - I was calling in after work to see how she was doing.
Thursday - I actually took some pictures at the TT Teas - some for the church website, although I haven't got around to putting them there yet. This one just shows some of the home-made goodies - there had been more, but I only got the camera out towards the end of the session!
Friday - by the end of the day, despite home visits etc. meaning that I had only had an hour or two at a time to organise my new work space, I decided I was pretty happy with it -
I will doubtless get used to sharing eventually.
Saturday. I went to pick D-d up from the airport. I allowed plenty of time, as the flights are often in early, and I wasn't sure what the traffic would be like. So I had time to admire the art exhibition in the terminal building. Do other people/places have art exhibitions in their airports, or is it just us?
Anyway - some of my BtVS friends might remember the weird series of Spike as a fairy stuff that was around a couple of years ago... I wonder why that came to mind when I saw this?
The added 'joke' is that on our way to the airport we cross The Fairy Bridge - I now imagine little guys like this sitting under it. The drawing is by an artist called Julia Ashby Smyth.
And that brings us to Sunday. There was only one child at church today - all the rest were away visiting family or on holiday - it is our half-term for TT, but not in the rest of the British Isles - so a really good time for cheap flights etc.! She and I had fun - we had a few spare gingerbread men, and the recreation of Jacob's Ladder with gingerbread men and chocolate fingers was such a roaring success a few weeks ago ... so we got out the icing again... We found a gingerbread man with a broken leg - and used him to do the story of the beggar at the Beautiful Gate, one gingerbread man got a lot of icing and became Joseph - and so on!!
Then after the service D-d wanted to look at the bikes for a while, and I thought perhaps you might like to see what TT is really like. So - this picture is nothing to do with the racing, except that it is taken near the Pits which happen to be within easy walking distance of church. It just shows how people park their bikes, and then gather to talk, watch the world go by, and admire other people's bikes. I might post a few more pictures later this week - but this is a taste -
I really must get on, now, with doing a leaflet for the church flower festival in .. meep! four weeks!!
