365 Project, Week 29.
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curiouswombatThe weather has been pretty good all week - a bit of an Indian summer, although there is a bit of an autumnal nip in the air!
This week's photos
There are some really nice trees all around the car park at our hospital. I am struck again, most Mondays, by how many different trees there are there, as I walk backwards and forwards to do my weekly clinic. These are rather beautiful in their austerity, I think.
Tuesday found me on the trail of a building which is part of District Nursing history on the island. In 1950 the Manx Health Board took over the District Nursing Service from the group of charities that had previously paid the nurses. One of the first things they did was to build a couple of houses in villages, for the nurse to live and also have a treatment room to do baby clinics, see patients etc. One of these was still being used by the District Nurses until about 5 years ago - although the 'house' was, more recently, offices for a number of us as the nurse for the village had her own house by now. The other one had been 'lost'.
We have been looking at the history of District Nursing at work, and I decided to try and find the other 'nurse's house'. It turned out to be quite easy - I asked a couple of my patients in the village in question, and they immediately told me exactly which house it was - and I set off with my camera. So - Tuesday's picture is the house that was built, in the early 1950s, for the Ballasalla District Nurse - now a private home. The single story part was the 'treatment room' - the current owner tells me it is now a bedroom.
Wednesday - I drive past this wee gate every day on my way to work. It looks like the gateway to a hidden garden. Actually it is something even stranger - it a a small gateway into the grounds of the house of the Queen's representative on the island - the Lieutenant Governor. So if you want to sneak into Government House...
Yes - that is wild fuchsia growing over it - I remember saying sometime a few months ago that it grows profusely here!
Thursday - just taken beside a road - the rowan trees are all heavy with berries now - my Gran used to say that the more berries on the rowan the harder the winter would be - if this year's crop are anything to go by, it is going to be a hard winter!
Friday - D-d took our little C3 to the bodywork shop to have the dint in her tailgate removed. The dint was not her fault - someone reversed into it when I was using it for work some months ago - and we've just got around to making it look pretty again for her to take it back to York with her. Classy Chassis gave her a courtesy car for the weekend. It is a Hyundai Amica - basically a custard yellow motorised roller-skate! It really is as tiny as it looks! She says she will be glad to get Po back. (C3PO...!)
Yesterday my daughter and I took my mother out for afternoon tea at the Tea-shop in Bride Village. D-d and I were well prepared - all we had to eat all day prior to this treat was cereal for breakfast so that by 3,30pm we had enough room to eat a full afternoon tea!
In the middle - three type of sandwiches - egg and cress, cheese and onion and chicken mayo, with crisps. On top three large warm scones, with a small bowl of strawberry jam, a large bowl of whipped cream, and some butter. The butter was mainly for the fruit loaf which is on the bottom tier - alongside a slice of Victoria sponge, a slice of coffee and walnut cake, and a slice of chocolate cake!
There was also a large pot of tea and plenty of hot water!
I don't know about Mum, but I didn't eat anything else until 9.30pm, and D-d, who was out for the evening, said it was about 10pm before she had room for anything!
Today's picture is actually of the village war memorial - I walk past it every time I go to the Co-op. It was designed by Archibald Knox.
Today, in church, the children and I considered 'Give us this day our daily bread', ate fresh bread from the Co-op, and then made salt dough to make model fruit and vegetables ready for harvest.
I took in the ingredients for the salt dough, got them to help me measure the flour and salt, then I added water and told the two boys to just mix with their hands - the delight on their faces was a treasure! The girls got to do the same with a second bowl - and I love the difference between children - one little girl delighted in coating her hands with the dough - one of the others, all of 5 years and a week old, had to go and wash her hands every two or three minutes because she 'doesn't like the feel of them being dirty'!
This week's photos
There are some really nice trees all around the car park at our hospital. I am struck again, most Mondays, by how many different trees there are there, as I walk backwards and forwards to do my weekly clinic. These are rather beautiful in their austerity, I think.
Tuesday found me on the trail of a building which is part of District Nursing history on the island. In 1950 the Manx Health Board took over the District Nursing Service from the group of charities that had previously paid the nurses. One of the first things they did was to build a couple of houses in villages, for the nurse to live and also have a treatment room to do baby clinics, see patients etc. One of these was still being used by the District Nurses until about 5 years ago - although the 'house' was, more recently, offices for a number of us as the nurse for the village had her own house by now. The other one had been 'lost'.
We have been looking at the history of District Nursing at work, and I decided to try and find the other 'nurse's house'. It turned out to be quite easy - I asked a couple of my patients in the village in question, and they immediately told me exactly which house it was - and I set off with my camera. So - Tuesday's picture is the house that was built, in the early 1950s, for the Ballasalla District Nurse - now a private home. The single story part was the 'treatment room' - the current owner tells me it is now a bedroom.
Wednesday - I drive past this wee gate every day on my way to work. It looks like the gateway to a hidden garden. Actually it is something even stranger - it a a small gateway into the grounds of the house of the Queen's representative on the island - the Lieutenant Governor. So if you want to sneak into Government House...
Yes - that is wild fuchsia growing over it - I remember saying sometime a few months ago that it grows profusely here!
Thursday - just taken beside a road - the rowan trees are all heavy with berries now - my Gran used to say that the more berries on the rowan the harder the winter would be - if this year's crop are anything to go by, it is going to be a hard winter!
Friday - D-d took our little C3 to the bodywork shop to have the dint in her tailgate removed. The dint was not her fault - someone reversed into it when I was using it for work some months ago - and we've just got around to making it look pretty again for her to take it back to York with her. Classy Chassis gave her a courtesy car for the weekend. It is a Hyundai Amica - basically a custard yellow motorised roller-skate! It really is as tiny as it looks! She says she will be glad to get Po back. (C3PO...!)
Yesterday my daughter and I took my mother out for afternoon tea at the Tea-shop in Bride Village. D-d and I were well prepared - all we had to eat all day prior to this treat was cereal for breakfast so that by 3,30pm we had enough room to eat a full afternoon tea!
In the middle - three type of sandwiches - egg and cress, cheese and onion and chicken mayo, with crisps. On top three large warm scones, with a small bowl of strawberry jam, a large bowl of whipped cream, and some butter. The butter was mainly for the fruit loaf which is on the bottom tier - alongside a slice of Victoria sponge, a slice of coffee and walnut cake, and a slice of chocolate cake!
There was also a large pot of tea and plenty of hot water!
I don't know about Mum, but I didn't eat anything else until 9.30pm, and D-d, who was out for the evening, said it was about 10pm before she had room for anything!
Today's picture is actually of the village war memorial - I walk past it every time I go to the Co-op. It was designed by Archibald Knox.
Today, in church, the children and I considered 'Give us this day our daily bread', ate fresh bread from the Co-op, and then made salt dough to make model fruit and vegetables ready for harvest.
I took in the ingredients for the salt dough, got them to help me measure the flour and salt, then I added water and told the two boys to just mix with their hands - the delight on their faces was a treasure! The girls got to do the same with a second bowl - and I love the difference between children - one little girl delighted in coating her hands with the dough - one of the others, all of 5 years and a week old, had to go and wash her hands every two or three minutes because she 'doesn't like the feel of them being dirty'!
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Date: 20/09/2009 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:21 pm (UTC)But would they get as much out of it?
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 20/09/2009 07:44 pm (UTC)I like the way the nurses were treated: very civilised workplace and home together. And the little gate covered in fuchsia looks like something out of a fantasy novel.
Yum to the cream tea. The scones look particularly vast and appetising!
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Date: 20/09/2009 07:55 pm (UTC)That's exactly what I as going to say! Beautiful and mysterious.
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:44 pm (UTC)This project has made me look at the things I go past - I have passed that every working day for the past five years - but only really looked at it now!
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:20 pm (UTC)The little gate does look like something from a fantasy novel, doesn't it?
And as for the tea - it was scrumptious - and the scone were a very good size!
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Date: 20/09/2009 07:55 pm (UTC)I love the picture of the nurse's house. The while of the house, the peak of the roof, the blue of the sky... makes a gorgeous shot IMO!
And I want to visit just so I can open the "secret door" to the governor's house!
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:47 pm (UTC)The secret gate makes me want to sneak in some time, too.
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 20/09/2009 08:49 pm (UTC)Yes - there is a lot of wild fuchsia in Eire - it made it feel very familiar to us when we visited.
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 20/09/2009 08:51 pm (UTC)I'm thinking that over here we call that tree a "Mountain Ash", at least that's what the berries look like to me.
And that tea looks divine, good thing I just ate.
Is that a WW1 Memorial? There was a very interesting tv program on our Military Channel the other night by Michael Palin about the last hours of WW1.
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Date: 20/09/2009 09:21 pm (UTC)The afternoon tea was very good!
The upright stone is the WW1 Memorial. The large grey slabs below it have the WW2 dead on them, and there are two small slate tablets, just recognisable at the bottom by their gold lettering, that commemorate one young man killed in the Falklands, if I remember properly, and one killed in Iraq in 1990.
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Date: 20/09/2009 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 20/09/2009 09:23 pm (UTC)The wee gate is cute, isn't it?
And it is perfectly acceptable to drink coffee with Afternoon tea - they make rather good coffee, actually!
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Date: 21/09/2009 12:52 am (UTC)I want to open that wee gate to see what lies behind. Very fetching!
I'd prefer there were no war memorials representing the deaths of healthy young people, but I'm very grateful there have been those willing to give their lives to spare others.
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Date: 21/09/2009 07:29 am (UTC)I totally agree with you about the war memorials.
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Date: 21/09/2009 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 21/09/2009 07:31 am (UTC)Tea was very, very, good.
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Date: 21/09/2009 12:11 pm (UTC)I've noticed berries are plentiful this year and having been wondering about the coming winter.
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Date: 21/09/2009 04:51 pm (UTC)We didn't quite eat them all - we ate our sandwiches, our scones and the fruit loaf - but ended up with D-d and I having the Victoria sponge between us, my mum taking home the coffee and walnut cake, and me taking the chocolate cake home for
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