Sunday Picspam.

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I haven't posted my Sunday pictures for a while. So, for your delectation, there are a few lower down under a cut.

Also - an update on the wandering daughter; she travelled up the east coast of Australia from Sydney to Cairns, as part of an organised group - and has dived on the Great Barrier Reef, sailed in a racing yacht, tried surfing, been in a rain forest, cuddled a koala and all sorts of other exciting things. Then she spent about 10 days with her paternal grandparents and aunt and uncle, in Australind, about 100 miles south of Perth. There she mainly chilled out, and got her breath back!

Then a bit under 2 weeks ago she flew on to Thailand. She met up with her two friends from home, she has been to Ko Phi Phi and another island, is currently in Phuket, had been on an elephant ride, canoeing, and even a Thai cookery course! She returns to Bangkok tomorrow and then home. She gets home on Wednesday lunch time - I think she might well need a day or two to flop out...

Anyway, on to the pictures, which this week show a baffling bit of church history, a gaggle of geese, and something to interest ellynn_ithilwen...



Firstly - a project I have undertaken for church. We realised that behind the current Cradle Roll, in its frame, were older ones. The oldest we seem to have dates back to about 1920, by some of the names, and the ink is badly faded. I have been trying to re-ink them so that they are readable, and we will put them all on display framed separately.

Some of the names are very faded - but I have found if I photograph them I can play a bit with contrast etc. and then make them out. But others have actually had bits of paper stuck over them... for some reason the then Minister, or the Elders, chose to cover over the names of some of the children who had been baptised - and we have no idea why. Any ideas?

And then they didn't even complete the roll to the end, but started another one.

So - this is the oldest cradle roll - you can see which names I have re-inked -





This is what the names look like before I re-ink them -





Those have had contrast increased to make them readable.

But what do I do with this?





The top space appears to have three separate layers of paper glued over it; and the lower one has had a bit of plain paper stuck over it and then some of it peeled off... It's all a bit of a mystery.

Anyway, to move on, a few pictures from the garden - the fuchsias are because the theme at Photo Scavenger this week is 'dance'...








And a couple from one of the rose bushes - I've forgotten her name.








Now some from a little further afield - but not much - this is the view from near Braaid, looking SW.





I was looking for ripe blackberries. but they are nowhere near ripe here, yet -





This is an example of why farmers are meant to cut their thistles before they seed - but they do look pretty...





And one with a tiny butterfly - or possibly a moth.





Then I went up by Archallangan, still hoping for blackberries - but they weren't ripe there, either.





But the heather is nicely in flower.





And the thick tree growth made me think of The Old Forest.








A little further along I saw some free-range Christmas dinner... em... geese.





And the gaggle of geese a little closer -





And, finally, in this rather remote bit of the island we have...





No - not an alien spaceship, but the Isle of Man Observatory which is completely out of range of light pollution. A real plus for an observatory, of course!



In other news our ten year old Miele washer/drier is being a touch temperamental - I think it might be a good idea for it to have its first service...

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