Sunday Pic Spam.
13 Feb 2011 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatWhat have I been up to this week apart from spamming people with illustrations from A Hobbit's Journal? Work has been busy.
One really neat thing, though, was a work meeting, about a client, with a clinical psychologist. Why? Because last time the two of us met was at her wedding when we were both 21 - that's a long time ago! Neither of us realised that the other had come home until very recently. So our client related meeting began with coffee and five minutes of "Do you ever hear from X?" "I keep in touch with Y," and "Did you know Z got divorced?", along with pictures of our families being shown off and admired!
On Friday evening I was part of a quiz team at an annual event - an inter-church quiz night, would you believe? We had two teams in, the one I was in came 3rd, our other team came 2nd - not bad out of 15 teams. Pity the Cathedral managed to beat us. There was a good hotpot supper, though, and all proceeds went to the Leprosy Mission.
On Saturday we had a meeting of the Elders of the two Manx URC's with two members of the Pastoral Committee. This is less gentle than it sounds - quite a lot of worries, angst, and dissension. We had a 'Faith Supper' at the end of it - my contribution is
I made some chocolate fudge brownies -
One of the others made this savoury tarte tartin - and it was very, very nice.
Actually I took this next picture earlier in the week - this is S2C trying to watch football on the television... through a cat!
Today I was out with friends and family from church again - I was having a very Christian Weekend - mostly involving food! I had paté to start, stuffed chicken breast for my main, and sticky toffee pudding for pudding. I am still too full to eat anything else - I think I might just manage cheese and oatcakes for supper.
I had a brief walk in the village on my way home, to try and shake lunch down. I remember taking a picture for Where I Live Day which had the roof of the village hall in the background - this is the whole of the building -
It was an early design by an eminent Edwardian architect who was part of the Arts and Crafts movement - M H Baillie Scott.
Also, in the village, I stopped to look at the window display in the Hospice Shop - and I thought you might like to see their Valentine's theme -
Isn't that nice?
The final picture is the one I took for the theme 'Taxes' at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
photo_scavenger -
Yes, that really is the photo I took for 'Taxes'!
That painted mirror is what I spent my very first tax rebate on - I bought it at the Quayside Market in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the late 1970s, and it cost £11. As a student that was a lot of money to spend on such a frippery. But it was unexpected money, and I really wanted a painted mirror - they were very fashionable at the time.
I still really like it. It hangs in the hallway, opposite the living room door, and I see it every time I go in or out of the living room, or in or out of the house. It turned out to be a pretty good use of the tax rebate, really!
And just think - there are still more of the Hobbit's Journal illustrations to go. Not sure if you would see that as a promise or a threat, really.
One really neat thing, though, was a work meeting, about a client, with a clinical psychologist. Why? Because last time the two of us met was at her wedding when we were both 21 - that's a long time ago! Neither of us realised that the other had come home until very recently. So our client related meeting began with coffee and five minutes of "Do you ever hear from X?" "I keep in touch with Y," and "Did you know Z got divorced?", along with pictures of our families being shown off and admired!
On Friday evening I was part of a quiz team at an annual event - an inter-church quiz night, would you believe? We had two teams in, the one I was in came 3rd, our other team came 2nd - not bad out of 15 teams. Pity the Cathedral managed to beat us. There was a good hotpot supper, though, and all proceeds went to the Leprosy Mission.
On Saturday we had a meeting of the Elders of the two Manx URC's with two members of the Pastoral Committee. This is less gentle than it sounds - quite a lot of worries, angst, and dissension. We had a 'Faith Supper' at the end of it - my contribution is
I made some chocolate fudge brownies -
One of the others made this savoury tarte tartin - and it was very, very nice.
Actually I took this next picture earlier in the week - this is S2C trying to watch football on the television... through a cat!
Today I was out with friends and family from church again - I was having a very Christian Weekend - mostly involving food! I had paté to start, stuffed chicken breast for my main, and sticky toffee pudding for pudding. I am still too full to eat anything else - I think I might just manage cheese and oatcakes for supper.
I had a brief walk in the village on my way home, to try and shake lunch down. I remember taking a picture for Where I Live Day which had the roof of the village hall in the background - this is the whole of the building -
It was an early design by an eminent Edwardian architect who was part of the Arts and Crafts movement - M H Baillie Scott.
Also, in the village, I stopped to look at the window display in the Hospice Shop - and I thought you might like to see their Valentine's theme -
Isn't that nice?
The final picture is the one I took for the theme 'Taxes' at
photo_scavenger - 
Yes, that really is the photo I took for 'Taxes'!
That painted mirror is what I spent my very first tax rebate on - I bought it at the Quayside Market in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the late 1970s, and it cost £11. As a student that was a lot of money to spend on such a frippery. But it was unexpected money, and I really wanted a painted mirror - they were very fashionable at the time.
I still really like it. It hangs in the hallway, opposite the living room door, and I see it every time I go in or out of the living room, or in or out of the house. It turned out to be a pretty good use of the tax rebate, really!
And just think - there are still more of the Hobbit's Journal illustrations to go. Not sure if you would see that as a promise or a threat, really.
