365 Project Week 41.
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curiouswombatThis week has been a week of working and baking - neither of which immediately show up in the photos! But there is a bonus picture to do with the baking...
So we have
Monday - I was at a meeting in the middle of Douglas, very near St George's church. I popped into the graveyard with my camera and took a few pictures - I'll post two or three more tomorrow or Tuesday. The most famous person to be buried there is Sir William Hillary, founder of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution - this is his grave -
There are many people alive today, or who have lived long, full lives, thanks to Sir William Hillary and there is a Memorial Service held at his graveside each January as his birthday and the anniversary of his death are then. It is always a cold, bleak day; which, in some ways, is actually very fitting.
Tuesday's picture is something of a contrast - these geese live at the end of a lane where I was visiting a patient. I wonder if they are destined for Christmas dinner? And yes, that is the sea behind them - it makes its way into the pictures one way or another every week.
Wednesday's picture is taken just after 4pm, looking towards Peel. On the west coast of the island, Peel is famous for its sunsets. You can see why, as this was purely a 'grab camera from car and take a picture as I get back into the car' job, again after a visit to a patient at home!
Thursday's picture is taken whilst I had lunch at home - it was a dry day, and I thought it interesting to show that there are still a few flowers in bloom in the garden - there are a few geraniums and a couple of wallflowers - but I liked the 'other-worldliness' of this close up of a cyclamen.
Friday's picture - all week I have been thinking that I really like the look of bare trees against the sky - but never seemed to be able to stop the car in the right places when a particular one caught my eye. This is not such a good shape as some of the other, unpictured, ones, but was near where I park my car when I do my clinic session in Ramsey...
Yesterday I was up bright and early to go to church where there was a coffee morning to show off the church flowers. (You can see them if you click on the church link in my sidebar, choose St Andrews from the hoepage and then Christmas flowers...). I was, with my two fellow teachers and a scutch of small people, running a cake stall to raise money for Water Aid. The bonus picture at the bottom shows some of the cakes - we had some wonderful donations, which kept coming, so if I had taken the picture a little sooner or a little later the cakes would have been different.
However Saturday's picture is actually one taken later. I decided to go and do some of my Christmas shopping, at last. I started at Tynwald craft centre, and did buy presents for some furry friends at the pet shop, and a couple of books, but not a lot of other stuff. But I realised that if I went into town then, at about 4.15pm, it might be easier to park... which it was. I did a quick flash around M&S and got all the Sunday School presents, a couple of bits for D-d, wrapping paper, cards to supplement the made ones, scented nightlights... a totally successful 3/4 hour spree!
Even better, though - as I came out I was greeted with -
Ellan Vannin Pipes and Drums were playing outside the shop! They are in their Manx tartan kilts. I love the rich sound of the pipes and drums - 'Little Drummer Boy' was just wonderful. I have to admit to preferring them to the Silver Band 100fold.
Today I rushed around at church organising next week's Nativity, and then, after lunch, decided that it really was time to start decorating for Christmas. So - this is the green and red stuff that goes on the shelves above the television -
I'm sure I should have been able to take a better picture... I also put most of the cards onto the wall behind the settee, and redid the door wreath - so progress has been made!
Progress has also been made in the writing - the next chapter of Brotherhood, which is winding to a close, is now with my beta and I should be able to post it tomorrow or Tuesday, and there is a RoTK-verse Christmas/mid-winter story on its way too.
Hopefully progress will also be made writing Christmas cards - but don't hold your breath...
Finally - here is a bonus picture - cakes, and more cakes -
Hmm- I think I may have just heard the wreath falling off the front door - I didn't wash the door before I started, and so the suction hook might not have sucked quite as well as it usually does. I was just boasting the other day that it always stays put, and you know they say pride goes before a fall - well I think this time it might be quite literal!
Oh, and the fair wind? Ellan Vannin Pipes and Drums used to be called Cair Vie - Manx for Fair Wind - a good name for a pipe band, but probably prone to being mixed up with the fishing boat of the same name from Ramsey...
So we have
Monday - I was at a meeting in the middle of Douglas, very near St George's church. I popped into the graveyard with my camera and took a few pictures - I'll post two or three more tomorrow or Tuesday. The most famous person to be buried there is Sir William Hillary, founder of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution - this is his grave -
There are many people alive today, or who have lived long, full lives, thanks to Sir William Hillary and there is a Memorial Service held at his graveside each January as his birthday and the anniversary of his death are then. It is always a cold, bleak day; which, in some ways, is actually very fitting.
Tuesday's picture is something of a contrast - these geese live at the end of a lane where I was visiting a patient. I wonder if they are destined for Christmas dinner? And yes, that is the sea behind them - it makes its way into the pictures one way or another every week.
Wednesday's picture is taken just after 4pm, looking towards Peel. On the west coast of the island, Peel is famous for its sunsets. You can see why, as this was purely a 'grab camera from car and take a picture as I get back into the car' job, again after a visit to a patient at home!
Thursday's picture is taken whilst I had lunch at home - it was a dry day, and I thought it interesting to show that there are still a few flowers in bloom in the garden - there are a few geraniums and a couple of wallflowers - but I liked the 'other-worldliness' of this close up of a cyclamen.
Friday's picture - all week I have been thinking that I really like the look of bare trees against the sky - but never seemed to be able to stop the car in the right places when a particular one caught my eye. This is not such a good shape as some of the other, unpictured, ones, but was near where I park my car when I do my clinic session in Ramsey...
Yesterday I was up bright and early to go to church where there was a coffee morning to show off the church flowers. (You can see them if you click on the church link in my sidebar, choose St Andrews from the hoepage and then Christmas flowers...). I was, with my two fellow teachers and a scutch of small people, running a cake stall to raise money for Water Aid. The bonus picture at the bottom shows some of the cakes - we had some wonderful donations, which kept coming, so if I had taken the picture a little sooner or a little later the cakes would have been different.
However Saturday's picture is actually one taken later. I decided to go and do some of my Christmas shopping, at last. I started at Tynwald craft centre, and did buy presents for some furry friends at the pet shop, and a couple of books, but not a lot of other stuff. But I realised that if I went into town then, at about 4.15pm, it might be easier to park... which it was. I did a quick flash around M&S and got all the Sunday School presents, a couple of bits for D-d, wrapping paper, cards to supplement the made ones, scented nightlights... a totally successful 3/4 hour spree!
Even better, though - as I came out I was greeted with -
Ellan Vannin Pipes and Drums were playing outside the shop! They are in their Manx tartan kilts. I love the rich sound of the pipes and drums - 'Little Drummer Boy' was just wonderful. I have to admit to preferring them to the Silver Band 100fold.
Today I rushed around at church organising next week's Nativity, and then, after lunch, decided that it really was time to start decorating for Christmas. So - this is the green and red stuff that goes on the shelves above the television -
I'm sure I should have been able to take a better picture... I also put most of the cards onto the wall behind the settee, and redid the door wreath - so progress has been made!
Progress has also been made in the writing - the next chapter of Brotherhood, which is winding to a close, is now with my beta and I should be able to post it tomorrow or Tuesday, and there is a RoTK-verse Christmas/mid-winter story on its way too.
Hopefully progress will also be made writing Christmas cards - but don't hold your breath...
Finally - here is a bonus picture - cakes, and more cakes -
Hmm- I think I may have just heard the wreath falling off the front door - I didn't wash the door before I started, and so the suction hook might not have sucked quite as well as it usually does. I was just boasting the other day that it always stays put, and you know they say pride goes before a fall - well I think this time it might be quite literal!
Oh, and the fair wind? Ellan Vannin Pipes and Drums used to be called Cair Vie - Manx for Fair Wind - a good name for a pipe band, but probably prone to being mixed up with the fishing boat of the same name from Ramsey...
