365 Project Week 22
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curiouswombatLife at the moment seems to be work, shop, eat, sleep, work...
The pictures for the week tend to reflect this - a couple of them were simply taken out of the car window as I drove between patients at work, or was pulled up outside a shop to get milk!
Monday - this is simply taken when I got out of the car about 6pm on my way home from work. This is where I often park the car - yes - on the double yellow lines up the street...! The traffic wardens finish at 5pm, and the police seem to realise that we, as a street, do not have enough room to park when we are all home. Aren't the flowers in the near garden lovely? It is always colourful.
Tuesday - it was a rather wet day. Not a good day to be a tram horse... The horse trams run the couple of miles length of the promenade in the summer - but in years gone by they ran all year around, I think, which is why they have a couple of 'closed' trams. The manager obviously expected it to be wet all day, which it was, as they had got one of the closed trams out on Tuesday.
I rather like the way I have caught the horse with all feet off the ground. (A picture of a more usual horse tram can be seen here.)
Wednesday - shopping on the way home from work - even the car park of the supermarket looks nice in the sunshine -
Sorry about the pole up the middle - it didn't even occur to me at the time - I was a bit zombie-ish!
Thursday - a visit to a government run older persons' residential home in the south of the island - this is the entrance to Southlands - it has wings out to either side of this central area, but I would have had to stood in the road outside to capture more of it!
Friday - a 'grab the camera and shoot out of the window' moment - I had to stop to let this family cross the road in front of me - not a terribly clear picture, but it gives you the idea!
Saturday - I spent Saturday working too. I usually work Monday to Friday, but we are still monitoring any possible cases of H1N1 swine flu, swabbing them individually to confirm whether they really do have it, and taking the tamiflu out individually from a central supply; I have been the nurse doing this for the whole island for the last couple of Saturdays. It is quite tiring, but mainly because I don't get a lie-in, and don't have time to do my usual Saturday stuff. This Saturday one of the cases was in the far north of the island and I took the shortest route - through one of my favourite places - Tholt-y-Will and Sulby Glen.
You really can't feel too harassed and hassled when you drive down this road...
I finished about 5pm, and went straight from dropping off samples at the path lab to doing my shopping. So at least I didn't have to go shopping today before we could eat - which happened last weekend!
D-d was camping with friends last night, S2C was at work, neither were around when I sat out in the garden to eat my lunch and read -
Tesco's sushi, home-made smoothy, The two Towers (I'm reading all the Faramir stuff carefully...). Note pebble holding book open - D-d and I both read out there, the pebbles are kept on the table for that very purpose.
If I'd turned the camera around a bit you would have seen that I also had a full line of washing out. There is something quite satisfying about a line of clothes in a warm breeze!
This week is going to be busy, too. I am teaching other nurses for two full days - and I still haven't printed out the handouts!
I'm doing flu-duty this Saturday, too. But then no more for at least two weeks! Squee! And it will be WriterCon UK!
Hmm - I have a talk to do for that yet, too... although putting that together will be fun, rather than hard work!
The pictures for the week tend to reflect this - a couple of them were simply taken out of the car window as I drove between patients at work, or was pulled up outside a shop to get milk!
Monday - this is simply taken when I got out of the car about 6pm on my way home from work. This is where I often park the car - yes - on the double yellow lines up the street...! The traffic wardens finish at 5pm, and the police seem to realise that we, as a street, do not have enough room to park when we are all home. Aren't the flowers in the near garden lovely? It is always colourful.
Tuesday - it was a rather wet day. Not a good day to be a tram horse... The horse trams run the couple of miles length of the promenade in the summer - but in years gone by they ran all year around, I think, which is why they have a couple of 'closed' trams. The manager obviously expected it to be wet all day, which it was, as they had got one of the closed trams out on Tuesday.
I rather like the way I have caught the horse with all feet off the ground. (A picture of a more usual horse tram can be seen here.)
Wednesday - shopping on the way home from work - even the car park of the supermarket looks nice in the sunshine -
Sorry about the pole up the middle - it didn't even occur to me at the time - I was a bit zombie-ish!
Thursday - a visit to a government run older persons' residential home in the south of the island - this is the entrance to Southlands - it has wings out to either side of this central area, but I would have had to stood in the road outside to capture more of it!
Friday - a 'grab the camera and shoot out of the window' moment - I had to stop to let this family cross the road in front of me - not a terribly clear picture, but it gives you the idea!
Saturday - I spent Saturday working too. I usually work Monday to Friday, but we are still monitoring any possible cases of H1N1 swine flu, swabbing them individually to confirm whether they really do have it, and taking the tamiflu out individually from a central supply; I have been the nurse doing this for the whole island for the last couple of Saturdays. It is quite tiring, but mainly because I don't get a lie-in, and don't have time to do my usual Saturday stuff. This Saturday one of the cases was in the far north of the island and I took the shortest route - through one of my favourite places - Tholt-y-Will and Sulby Glen.
You really can't feel too harassed and hassled when you drive down this road...
I finished about 5pm, and went straight from dropping off samples at the path lab to doing my shopping. So at least I didn't have to go shopping today before we could eat - which happened last weekend!
D-d was camping with friends last night, S2C was at work, neither were around when I sat out in the garden to eat my lunch and read -
Tesco's sushi, home-made smoothy, The two Towers (I'm reading all the Faramir stuff carefully...). Note pebble holding book open - D-d and I both read out there, the pebbles are kept on the table for that very purpose.
If I'd turned the camera around a bit you would have seen that I also had a full line of washing out. There is something quite satisfying about a line of clothes in a warm breeze!
This week is going to be busy, too. I am teaching other nurses for two full days - and I still haven't printed out the handouts!
I'm doing flu-duty this Saturday, too. But then no more for at least two weeks! Squee! And it will be WriterCon UK!
Hmm - I have a talk to do for that yet, too... although putting that together will be fun, rather than hard work!
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Date: 02/08/2009 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:13 pm (UTC)Actually Tolkien can be quite heavy going - my husband says many people who have written since have written better... I like LotR more than The Hobbit, I think. I tend to go back to read bits as a refresher, rather than the whole thing through, though. The films give such a good visual feel for his world, I think. The Hobbit will be out on film in, oh, a year or two...when Peter Jackson finishes it.
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:15 pm (UTC)The horses actually only do short shifts - you see them changing over at their stables regularly, and then they work a week on week off, or similar, and spend their non-work weeks out in the countryside.
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:17 pm (UTC)It's good to see the heavy horses still in work - otherwise the breeds will die out.
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:18 pm (UTC)The lunch was good - I felt so much better after it.
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:15 pm (UTC)Mmmmm sushi!
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:21 pm (UTC)We don't have any sushi places here, but I have decided that I quite like Tesco's or M&S - although it is possible that they bear little relationship to the real thing!
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:18 pm (UTC)Lookiing forward to your talk......
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:23 pm (UTC)I am hoping my talk will entertain...!
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:33 pm (UTC)We are very fortunate to live where we do - although this is very good discipline for me, to take the camera out and look every day, and it has made me realise how pretty so much of the island is.
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:40 pm (UTC)I adore the ones of the sheep and the chickens...looks like the sort of things I see outside everyday!
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Date: 02/08/2009 08:47 pm (UTC)I loved the hen and her brood and to hope the sheep have good traffic sense. I can't help but worry about those that live on the sides of the roads. The horses seem very well looked after and I can imagine there are more popular with tourists than locals.
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Date: 02/08/2009 09:31 pm (UTC)The sheep up there are pretty car savvy - and most of the drivers are used to them, too, so accidents with them are fairly rare.
And yes, the horse trams are more popular with the visitors than the locals!
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Date: 03/08/2009 12:41 am (UTC)Sounds like your life of late has been a mirror of mine. Work, sleep, necessary errands, eat, work, sleep, rinse and repeat.
*hugs*
Kathleen
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Date: 03/08/2009 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 03/08/2009 07:55 am (UTC)Kathleen
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Date: 03/08/2009 12:53 am (UTC)It's amazing that you always take the time to appreciate and share the beauty in your world, even during such a tough week.
Hope you get a breather soon!
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Date: 03/08/2009 06:31 am (UTC)Who uses the horse-drawn tram? Is it IoM's form of public transportation?
The idea of livestock wandering about is a foreign one in the Midwest. One's livestock stays on one's land through fences: limestone post fences, barbed wire, and even electric wire. One of the odious chores of a farm is recapturing the livestock when a fence is compromised and then having to make repairs to said fence. You showed hedges earlier, and I thought they were meant to keep livestock in certain boundaries, but are they more property markers?
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Date: 03/08/2009 07:37 am (UTC)The livestock actually are kept in place on their owner's land - the road simply runs through the middle of the land. So - the hills that high up have hedges or fences to divide it up, but these can be two or three miles apart in places, and where they cross the road there is a cattle grid to keep the sheep in their own area. The land up there is not all that good as pasture so small fields wouldn't work.
The same system of upland farming is used throughout the British isles - I think our unfenced roads are mostly above about 1,000 feet above sea-level - below that the stock is contained in fields by those sod and gorse hedges.
The main road over the high ground, 'the mountain road' is well fenced on both sides - the road itself forms the demarcation line between different people's land.
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Date: 03/08/2009 09:43 am (UTC)Faramir is an interesting one. I think that there is quite a variance between the film Faramir and the book Faramir. (Although if the brothers want to draw attention away from Arwen's otherness then try letting Eowyn loose on those ghastly ladies in waiting.)
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Date: 03/08/2009 12:15 pm (UTC)I think I will keep with the book version. Although I do tend to get my 'images' from the film... in Return of The Key I described him as one man looked a bit like a fairer, younger, version of Aragorn, when he should really be as dark as Aragorn.
I think I will get to Éowyn in the next chapter.
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Date: 03/08/2009 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 03/08/2009 08:52 pm (UTC)I had the separate coronation (without Arwen), as described in Return of The Key, with Arwen arriving for a midsummer wedding, and so on.
I took advantage of film-canon to find a workable way to get two elves who weren't the twins or Legolas there too. In the summary on Open Scrolls (which gives you more words to play with than TtH does!) I finish the summary with
It is mainly book verse - except that I took the PJ version of the battle at Helm's Deep. I reckoned 'Why not? I'm dropping a twenty-first century teenager into it, why not have the elves at Helm's Deep?'!
So Faramir, personality-wise, will be book-Faramir, rather than film Faramir - but as I mentioned in RoTK that he looks like Aragorn but fairer then, should the colour of his hair be mentioned he will still have to be fairer...
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Date: 03/08/2009 10:08 am (UTC)Do you take any special precautions when you visit people with swine flu? Personally, I expect to get it just before WriterCon, so I miss the fun, but I don't expect to have it bad!
I love the tram picture, the chickens (I used to have a pet chickie), and the sheep. You seem to have the best of all worlds there -- the picturesque with a decent supermarket.
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Date: 03/08/2009 12:22 pm (UTC)We wear disposable aprons, gloves and masks when we visit the swine flu suspects, then bag all that lot and take it to the hospital to be destroyed with clinical waste. Seems to work - none of us have caught it so far... but I guess there's a first time.
And yes - "picturesque with a decent supermarket" sums us up well!
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