Sunday Picspam
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curiouswombatBiggest news this week around here is that D-d is home from her travels - I think I might be able to share a picture or two with you over the next few weeks. She looks well, and has had a great time. Now we have to work out how we all three live in the same house for more than a few weeks at a time...
I picked her up from the airport about 1.00pm on Wednesday, and mentioned that I had spent time that morning (I had taken a day's leave) making cupcakes ready for decoration when required.
By 3.00pm she was in the kitchen decorating cupcakes... here are the fruit of our labours -
Fresh raspberries, slivers of preserved ginger, gold stars and hundreds and thousands... later that day, and most of the next, she just panned out - but at that time what she most wanted to do was decorate cup cakes.
The rest of the undecorated cakes are in the freezer and can be defrosted and decorated as required...
I've made carrot cake, and some lemon drizzle cupcakes, ready to take to church as there is motorbike racing this week and there will be catering at church. The cupcakes can go, too, if required.
Talking of the motorbike racing - I keep meaning to take a picture of one of our bi-lingual road signs - not Manx/English like many of the others, but one near the roads used for racing -
Yes - bilingual English/German. I like the wee banned alien at the top, too. You can see why a surprisingly large number of Manx primary school children have a smattering of German.
And now to something completely different. I was at a meeting at the Promenade Methodist Church on Friday evening - which is, not surprisingly, on the promenade. I decided to get the camera out and play with it...
That is the Tower of Refuge - which I have mentioned before. Built to save anyone whose ship was wrecked, on those rocks so close to the town, by Sir William Hilary who also founded the royal National Lifeboat Institution. I rather like the current floodlighting - D-d hates it. Each to her own, I guess.
This is the Sea Terminal -
These show one of the sunken gardens, and the fountain -
There are so many lights near the fountain that it is incredibly bright -
Now looking across the bay a little towards the rest of the sweep of the promenade -
Not the best of night time photography - but fun!
And now to go and cook dinner - we had a roast chicken dinner last night - so tonight it is a most un-Sunday-like meal of mackerel.
I picked her up from the airport about 1.00pm on Wednesday, and mentioned that I had spent time that morning (I had taken a day's leave) making cupcakes ready for decoration when required.
By 3.00pm she was in the kitchen decorating cupcakes... here are the fruit of our labours -
Fresh raspberries, slivers of preserved ginger, gold stars and hundreds and thousands... later that day, and most of the next, she just panned out - but at that time what she most wanted to do was decorate cup cakes.
The rest of the undecorated cakes are in the freezer and can be defrosted and decorated as required...
I've made carrot cake, and some lemon drizzle cupcakes, ready to take to church as there is motorbike racing this week and there will be catering at church. The cupcakes can go, too, if required.
Talking of the motorbike racing - I keep meaning to take a picture of one of our bi-lingual road signs - not Manx/English like many of the others, but one near the roads used for racing -
Yes - bilingual English/German. I like the wee banned alien at the top, too. You can see why a surprisingly large number of Manx primary school children have a smattering of German.
And now to something completely different. I was at a meeting at the Promenade Methodist Church on Friday evening - which is, not surprisingly, on the promenade. I decided to get the camera out and play with it...
That is the Tower of Refuge - which I have mentioned before. Built to save anyone whose ship was wrecked, on those rocks so close to the town, by Sir William Hilary who also founded the royal National Lifeboat Institution. I rather like the current floodlighting - D-d hates it. Each to her own, I guess.
This is the Sea Terminal -
These show one of the sunken gardens, and the fountain -
There are so many lights near the fountain that it is incredibly bright -
Now looking across the bay a little towards the rest of the sweep of the promenade -
Not the best of night time photography - but fun!
And now to go and cook dinner - we had a roast chicken dinner last night - so tonight it is a most un-Sunday-like meal of mackerel.
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Date: 28/08/2011 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 28/08/2011 06:04 pm (UTC)The prom does look pretty all lit up at night - although they are actually all plain lights.
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Date: 28/08/2011 05:44 pm (UTC)Oooh, cupcakes.
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Date: 28/08/2011 06:06 pm (UTC)The cupcakes are pretty, aren't they? They were very tasty, too.
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Date: 28/08/2011 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 28/08/2011 06:11 pm (UTC)Have a virtual cake.
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Date: 28/08/2011 06:01 pm (UTC)I do envy you living so near to the sea :-)
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Date: 28/08/2011 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 28/08/2011 06:15 pm (UTC)And the cupcakes... I am full right now, but (again) you put me into a big temptation and you made me want them! :) I *love* raspberries. The yellow cream is vanilla?
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Date: 28/08/2011 06:49 pm (UTC)And yes - the yellow cream is vanilla - and tasted very good.
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Date: 28/08/2011 06:24 pm (UTC)Night photography is tricky, but those are lovely.
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Date: 28/08/2011 09:09 pm (UTC)I am quite pleased with the night pictures - but I think they could have been even better...
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Date: 28/08/2011 06:37 pm (UTC)Yummy yum, those cupcakes look delish.
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Date: 28/08/2011 09:17 pm (UTC)Have a virtual cupcake...
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Date: 28/08/2011 11:16 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 29/08/2011 10:39 am (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 29/08/2011 12:42 am (UTC)I love the photo of the fountain. The water looks so soft!
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Date: 29/08/2011 09:18 am (UTC)The fountain does look soft - but I have a few pictures of D-d's of a rainforest waterfall which are even softer looking. I am going to spend an hour or two this afternoon resizing and uploading some of her pictures to Flickr.
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Date: 29/08/2011 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 29/08/2011 04:16 am (UTC)I love the night photos. Everything looks magical and beautiful in the night lights!
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Date: 29/08/2011 09:24 am (UTC)The night pictures came out pretty well - and I rather liked the contrast between the 'illumination' of the Tower and the promenade buildings and the 'working lighting' of the Sea Terminal.
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Date: 29/08/2011 05:19 am (UTC)Congratulations; you do take a mean picture. My night shots never seem to come out.
Welcome back to D-d. I'm glad she had such a good time.
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Date: 29/08/2011 09:27 am (UTC)I put the camera onto a wall to take these which reduced the wobble pretty well for the long shutter speed.
I will be spamming with some of D-d's pictures over the next couple of weeks - she has had an absolute whale of a time.
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Date: 29/08/2011 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 31/08/2011 01:35 am (UTC)Those raspberries! Are they actually that deep magenta color? They look fabulous on that creamy yellow. (All the cupcakes are gorgeous. "Hundreds and thousands" is a much cooler name than "jimmies"!)
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Date: 31/08/2011 07:38 am (UTC)