365 Project Week 40!
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curiouswombat40 weeks down and only 12 to go - how fast the time is going!
This week I've been quite busy - you have got to click to see the wonders of
Monday was a beautiful cold clear day. The sea was such a bright blue, compared with all the recent pictures of it looking an angry grey, that I thought I would have to take a picture at lunch time. But I wanted a view I hadn't used already. So I went to the bottom of Douglas Head and took a picture, close-up, of the Breakwater built in the early 1980s from large interlocking concrete shapes and know to the locals as 'the elephants' graveyard' - for pretty obvious reasons!
That, granted rather ugly, structure provides shelter to the harbour enabling boats to come and go much more safely than when there was only the short piers of the harbour itself.
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quilterbear - I once said to her that there was a family group home near me that looked not unlike the one in Virginia where her daughter lives. On Tuesday I visited the house in Onchan for work, and explained why I wanted to take a picture before I left!
This bungalow was purpose built in the 1980s so that a small group of adults with learning difficulties could live as part of the community, with support. There are other, similar houses in other towns and villages on the island too - but not all quite as nice buildings as this one.
Wednesday I was icing mini Christmas Cakes for a cake stall at Church next Saturday -
I hadn't realised the lens was a bit steamed up - this is the best of three pictures - the others were even more steamed up on the left than this one...
Thursday is a road sign. Honestly. Well, you can see that, really! But I thought it made a good picture, and that it might amuse - it is the road sign for Little London. Which is a tiny hamlet of about five houses, and was regarded for many years as the most backward place on the island...! They were amongst the last to be offered mains water and electricity anyway. Goodness knows how it became known as Little London.
Friday's picture is of some of my Christmas cards that I have made. I have been late starting, and the theme this year is definitely 'simplicity'! Just after I took the photo, before I had put down the camera, the cat jumped up and sat on them. So if you get a card with cat hair, just regard it as an added, feline, greeting.
On Saturday I went, as usual, to go shopping with my Mum. The lights are on in Ramsey, and it was quite festive. I decided to go back and take a picture later - and by then it was persisting down with rain again. The first attempt had so much rain on the lens it was just a blur. So I put my hood up, pulled it forward, and tucked the camera in with me!
I took a couple with a proper night time setting on the camera, but decided that actually I like this, almost black, one better.
So this is the trees in the courthouse grounds, in the rain, and the dark!
And today I took lots of pictures of our church decorated for Christmas. I will sort them out for the church website, and probably post some here during the week. But today's picture is more fun. The children are helping run a cake-stall in aid of Water Aid, at a coffee morning, on Saturday. Obviously any ordinary cakes we would make would be stale by then. So instead, so that they had contributed, I made some gingerbread shapes for them to ice - and provided icing in red, white and green, pens to write on the icing, and edible gold paint and silver dust...
Aren't they just the most psychedelic snowmen etc. that you have ever seen? The three basic shapes are snowmen, angels, and houses. Top left there, there is a snowman who seems to have morphed into a robin in a hat and waistcoat!
They also decorated the Sunday school tree, and put up a nativity that Chessy and I put together last week - I'll add pics of them during the week, too.
A number of children went home with green tongues...
This week I've been quite busy - you have got to click to see the wonders of
Monday was a beautiful cold clear day. The sea was such a bright blue, compared with all the recent pictures of it looking an angry grey, that I thought I would have to take a picture at lunch time. But I wanted a view I hadn't used already. So I went to the bottom of Douglas Head and took a picture, close-up, of the Breakwater built in the early 1980s from large interlocking concrete shapes and know to the locals as 'the elephants' graveyard' - for pretty obvious reasons!
That, granted rather ugly, structure provides shelter to the harbour enabling boats to come and go much more safely than when there was only the short piers of the harbour itself.
Tuesdays picture is especially for
quilterbear - I once said to her that there was a family group home near me that looked not unlike the one in Virginia where her daughter lives. On Tuesday I visited the house in Onchan for work, and explained why I wanted to take a picture before I left!This bungalow was purpose built in the 1980s so that a small group of adults with learning difficulties could live as part of the community, with support. There are other, similar houses in other towns and villages on the island too - but not all quite as nice buildings as this one.
Wednesday I was icing mini Christmas Cakes for a cake stall at Church next Saturday -
I hadn't realised the lens was a bit steamed up - this is the best of three pictures - the others were even more steamed up on the left than this one...
Thursday is a road sign. Honestly. Well, you can see that, really! But I thought it made a good picture, and that it might amuse - it is the road sign for Little London. Which is a tiny hamlet of about five houses, and was regarded for many years as the most backward place on the island...! They were amongst the last to be offered mains water and electricity anyway. Goodness knows how it became known as Little London.
Friday's picture is of some of my Christmas cards that I have made. I have been late starting, and the theme this year is definitely 'simplicity'! Just after I took the photo, before I had put down the camera, the cat jumped up and sat on them. So if you get a card with cat hair, just regard it as an added, feline, greeting.
On Saturday I went, as usual, to go shopping with my Mum. The lights are on in Ramsey, and it was quite festive. I decided to go back and take a picture later - and by then it was persisting down with rain again. The first attempt had so much rain on the lens it was just a blur. So I put my hood up, pulled it forward, and tucked the camera in with me!
I took a couple with a proper night time setting on the camera, but decided that actually I like this, almost black, one better.
So this is the trees in the courthouse grounds, in the rain, and the dark!
And today I took lots of pictures of our church decorated for Christmas. I will sort them out for the church website, and probably post some here during the week. But today's picture is more fun. The children are helping run a cake-stall in aid of Water Aid, at a coffee morning, on Saturday. Obviously any ordinary cakes we would make would be stale by then. So instead, so that they had contributed, I made some gingerbread shapes for them to ice - and provided icing in red, white and green, pens to write on the icing, and edible gold paint and silver dust...
Aren't they just the most psychedelic snowmen etc. that you have ever seen? The three basic shapes are snowmen, angels, and houses. Top left there, there is a snowman who seems to have morphed into a robin in a hat and waistcoat!
They also decorated the Sunday school tree, and put up a nativity that Chessy and I put together last week - I'll add pics of them during the week, too.
A number of children went home with green tongues...
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Date: 06/12/2009 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 06/12/2009 05:23 pm (UTC)I love the gingerbread! :)
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Date: 06/12/2009 05:41 pm (UTC)You see - you'll have to add psychedelic icing to your gingerbread now! (My recipe is pretty similar to yours I think, but I just leave it in the saucepan to cool a bit... saucepan because I just throw the dry ingredients in with the melted ones to save getting a bowl dirty!)
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Date: 06/12/2009 06:00 pm (UTC)I bet. There's nothing to beat a traditional fruit Christmas cake. I'm not fond of marzipan though and have to watch the sugar intake. mince pies and Christmas pudding are my seasonal indulgence.
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Date: 06/12/2009 06:35 pm (UTC)She'll probably make mince-pies too. I made mincemeat brownies for a faith supper earlier this week, though.
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Date: 06/12/2009 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 06/12/2009 09:53 pm (UTC)Mincemeat Brownies
making time 10 minutes
baking time about 40 minutes
6oz (175g) self-raising flour
2oz (50g) soft margarine
6oz (175g) dark soft brown sugar
1 egg
4 good tablespoons mincemeat
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice (optional extra!)
Heat the oven to 180 C, gas mark 4. Grease and line
with greased greaseproof paper the base of an 8 inch
(20cm) square tin.
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and beat well for
2-3 minutes until they are well blended. Spread the
mixture evenly in the tin and then bake for about 40
minutes until the brownie is firm in the centre and
has shrunk from the edges of the tin.
Cool slightly, cut into 12 pieces. Turn out and
leave to cool on a wire rack.
I drizzled some melted white chocolate over the top.
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Date: 06/12/2009 05:47 pm (UTC)I could send you a wee tuck box...
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Date: 06/12/2009 07:19 pm (UTC)And this sounds amazingly tempting! I am much intrigued. But would you be interested in anything in return (Christmas has to be about reciprocity!)? I'm once again working in the Land of Soap aka Lush if you like things with bubbles and/or glitter!
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Date: 06/12/2009 09:04 pm (UTC)I am very fond of glitter... S2C will tell you I end up glittering for months after Christmas. Otherwise I am more of a shower person than a bath person.
And I will need an address - I'll send you mine in an LJ personal message thingy, and if you send me yours I will send you a small tuck-box full of interesting comestibles - but will avoid broody gingerbread angels!
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Date: 06/12/2009 05:48 pm (UTC)As for how I find the time? I'll let you into a secret - I hate housework...
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Date: 06/12/2009 05:38 pm (UTC)The snowmen are especially fine, but not quite as impressive as your cards (simple? Really??), which look entirely splendid en masse. I hope that cat didn't sqaush them too much!
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Date: 06/12/2009 05:51 pm (UTC)Oh - thank you!
Big London would be good in clear winter light - and probably a lot more scenic than its small counterpart!
The cards are simple in as much as each just has two or three shapes I either bought or made earlier in the year stuck on... so not requiring a lot of fancy tweezery stuff this week!
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Date: 06/12/2009 07:15 pm (UTC)What? You mean that you are put off by the bright red snowmen? :~P
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Date: 06/12/2009 07:14 pm (UTC)Beautiful also are those cookies. The snowmen especially make me smile too!
And we cat owners know that whatever comes in or leaves the house must be inspected, and any papers must surely have been put down for them to sit on. I'm sure we are expected to consider it-ahem!-an honor to have our handiwork sat on!
Btw, the cards look quite wonderful!
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Date: 06/12/2009 07:52 pm (UTC)The cookies are real works of art, aren't they?
The cat is such a very helpful member of the household...
The cards are something of a tradition!
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Date: 06/12/2009 09:31 pm (UTC)The cookies are a hoot- I would have trouble choosing just one to eat.
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Date: 06/12/2009 09:55 pm (UTC)The cookies are great, aren't they? Who could possibly resist?
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Date: 10/12/2009 12:07 am (UTC)I'm not big on tidying, and polishing and things, to be honest!
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Date: 13/12/2009 07:18 pm (UTC)[My brother's friend told me a joke on Friday: Two snowmen in a field. One says to the other, "Can you smell carrots?"]
I've saved the picture of the Christmas decorations. And I like the elephant's graveyard -- what's the thinking behind the shapes?
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