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 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.