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curiouswombatA couple of days late - what with our router breaking and LJ being a bit distracted by another attack (I wonder if it could be related to Vladimir Putin just having been nominated for President again?).
The severe gale force winds of last night (50 -70 mph winds) caused our electricity to go off - most of the village was plunged into darkness - not an excuse for late pic posts as it was between about 6.30 a.m. and 8.15 a.m. - but it did show just how dependent on the electricity supply we are!
D-d got dressed by the light of a torch, a set of battery powered LED stars that hang in her room, and the torch built into her phone. Me? I got dressed in the dark. She and I ate cold breakfast by candle-light - which is much less romantic than eating a hot dinner that way, take it from me! And we found out that it was a known power-cut and covered much of the village, by her going online to the local news site on her smart-phone.
I took some pictures of the sea at lunch time - along with a few others, they are
Actually I am starting with some pictures taken a few days ago down in Castletown - this is the breakwater - the sea was looking rather sulky.
As you know I like doors and gateways and so on - here is a rather nice Georgian door in the centre of Castletown -
And here is a close-up of the plaque to the right of the door -
I keep telling you that the Manx get everywhere! Good Manx surname there, too. I remember learning about him in history lessons from one of those teachers who would add in bits that meant something to us, to help us get the feel of history.
On to today. This was the sea in Douglas bay at lunchtime today. You can see why our boat (ferry - but only non-locals call it that) didn't sail.
The spray up over the cliffs in that middle one was about 40 or more feet in the air.
And, a total contrast - mid afternoon the wind died down for a few hours, and the sun came out. And I remembered that I needed a picture to illustrate the concept 'booth' at Photo Scavenger - so here is an old-fashioned phone box (with an equally old-fashioned letter box beside it), at a tiny hamlet in the middle of the island - hard to believe it was taken only about 6 or 7 miles away from, and an hour and a half later than, those last three.
The wind is starting to pick up again - and the boat isn't sailing tonight either - this means there has been no boat for 48 hours - we'll have to start eating each other soon... :~)
The severe gale force winds of last night (50 -70 mph winds) caused our electricity to go off - most of the village was plunged into darkness - not an excuse for late pic posts as it was between about 6.30 a.m. and 8.15 a.m. - but it did show just how dependent on the electricity supply we are!
D-d got dressed by the light of a torch, a set of battery powered LED stars that hang in her room, and the torch built into her phone. Me? I got dressed in the dark. She and I ate cold breakfast by candle-light - which is much less romantic than eating a hot dinner that way, take it from me! And we found out that it was a known power-cut and covered much of the village, by her going online to the local news site on her smart-phone.
I took some pictures of the sea at lunch time - along with a few others, they are
Actually I am starting with some pictures taken a few days ago down in Castletown - this is the breakwater - the sea was looking rather sulky.
As you know I like doors and gateways and so on - here is a rather nice Georgian door in the centre of Castletown -
And here is a close-up of the plaque to the right of the door -
I keep telling you that the Manx get everywhere! Good Manx surname there, too. I remember learning about him in history lessons from one of those teachers who would add in bits that meant something to us, to help us get the feel of history.
On to today. This was the sea in Douglas bay at lunchtime today. You can see why our boat (ferry - but only non-locals call it that) didn't sail.
The spray up over the cliffs in that middle one was about 40 or more feet in the air.
And, a total contrast - mid afternoon the wind died down for a few hours, and the sun came out. And I remembered that I needed a picture to illustrate the concept 'booth' at Photo Scavenger - so here is an old-fashioned phone box (with an equally old-fashioned letter box beside it), at a tiny hamlet in the middle of the island - hard to believe it was taken only about 6 or 7 miles away from, and an hour and a half later than, those last three.
The wind is starting to pick up again - and the boat isn't sailing tonight either - this means there has been no boat for 48 hours - we'll have to start eating each other soon... :~)
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Date: 29/11/2011 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 29/11/2011 11:18 pm (UTC)Modern phone boxes are much less interesting - my long time friend
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Date: 29/11/2011 10:35 pm (UTC)Hope your technical problems are over now!
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Date: 29/11/2011 11:19 pm (UTC)The sea does lend itself to photos when it is in a bad mood.
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Date: 29/11/2011 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 29/11/2011 11:22 pm (UTC)It seems to be good whole week to not be on the boat!
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Date: 29/11/2011 10:41 pm (UTC)Seas like that are definitely for being impressed by at a distances, as far as I'm concerned!
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Date: 29/11/2011 11:39 pm (UTC)Lovely pics.
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Date: 30/11/2011 12:21 am (UTC)Those waves are HUGE. That kind of power just stops me in my tracks.
The last photo just makes me smile. It's all sorts of lovely!
Funny, our power went off last night, too.
And yes, Russian elections coming up so it's time to squash the dissenters and forums about it all on LJ.
:/
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Date: 30/11/2011 08:37 am (UTC)Yes - there is a lot of power in that sea - glorious to watch, but I don't envy anyone who had to be out on it.
Our power supply is pretty reliable despite storms, these days, but as a child it was not at all unusual to wake and find 'the electric's off'.
As for Russian elections - I saw on the TV the tumultuous applause that met the announcement of Vladimir Putin as president elect... from his supporters. I also saw the clip of the public booing him at a sporting event. I think poor LJ might see the repercussions of that for then next few months.
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Date: 30/11/2011 12:51 am (UTC)I like the cow in the last one observing what's going on by the call-errrr-phone box-what we in the States would always say is a phone booth.
Hope your weather settles down soon.
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Date: 30/11/2011 08:46 am (UTC)And it was because my daughter thought that you folks called the phone-box a phone booth that suggested the picture to me - and it almost looks as if the only possible callers are the cattle!
Currently, my little weather chart thing, says we have winds of about 22 mph average - but they're reckoning nearer 40mph again by this evening - so there'll be gusts of up to 70 or so again. A real, traditional winter, really - but started quite early, and it's unusual to have storms like this for so long without a lull.
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Date: 30/11/2011 01:49 am (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 30/11/2011 12:44 pm (UTC)It's a rather nice doorway that - that it was Captain Quilliam's house makes it even more interesting.
I can confirm, to anyone interested, that there is something inherently unromantic about mother and daughter bonding over candle-lit cereal and fruit juice at 8.00am...
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Date: 30/11/2011 12:47 pm (UTC)So we won't have to start eating each other for a day or two...!
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Date: 30/11/2011 05:24 am (UTC)I hadn't thought about y'all importing food before - don't know why it didn't occur to me. Let's hope the boat is up and running pretty soon!
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Date: 30/11/2011 06:16 am (UTC)LOL!
That ocean is very impressive. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to venture out on it even if the boat had dared.
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Date: 30/11/2011 08:46 pm (UTC)We still have red phone and post boxes here. Such a shame that so many have been lost.
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Date: 30/11/2011 09:22 pm (UTC)As for the phone box - I really don't think the blue and silver ones have quite the class...
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Date: 01/12/2011 12:11 am (UTC)My goodness, that Electric Railway sign is huge!
I've noticed that in very urban areas, people shop food often and in small quantities, because it would be a hassle to carry much at a time. Here in the Midwest, we do our grocery shopping weekly, and do a big box store major stocking about once a month, because we have to drive somewhere to pick things up and it would be a hassle to do it daily. Plus, we're a rural community, so the mindset of butchering and stocking up on meat is familiar to us. We have an extra freezer in our garage to hold our bulk meat. As long as a tornado doesn't blow everything away, in case of an emergency, we won't have to resort to cannibalism for quite a while. :) I'm curious how much you keep in stock at home, since you are an island community with both urban and rural influences.
I remember when the great Y2K scare was prodding some to lay in massive amounts of provisions. I didn't believe in the doomsday scenario, but on the safe side, we bought a case of toilet tissue and some bottled water. I'm willing to do without lots of things, but those two things are my necessities!
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Date: 01/12/2011 08:44 am (UTC)It lights up at night - at least it did, I am so used to it that I really can't say I've noticed whether it still does or not!
The island is actually pretty used to days in the winter when the boat doesn't sail. As a community we are pretty self-sufficient from the point of view of milk, cheese, bread, meat, fish and vegetables, and so we can usually buy sufficient food - just less variety and less and less bottled, tinned or frozen stuff the longer we are cut off.
I do a weekly 'trolley shop' to stock up on things like toilet paper, cleaning stuff, pop, and store-cupboard type stuff, with 3 or 4 days worth of fresh food, and then shop at the local supermarket on my way home from work a couple more times in the week so that we have fresh meat and vegetables.
I have a fairly small freezer - but it currently contains enough meat/fish for about a week, although perhaps not enough vegetables to go with them... ice-cream enough, though, usually.
The store cupboard has things like cereals, baked beans, tinned soup, tinned tomatoes, dry pasta, an emergency tin of dried milk, coffee, tea, sauces and baking ingredients - I reckon we could live without leaving the house for at least a week.
We have two small supermarkets with easy walking distance - and, although the choice of fresh foods got very limited very quickly when it snowed heavily last winter, they did still have some food in!
We usually have enough toilet paper to last a week or so - and our tap water is fine so we have no need for bottled water.
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Date: 06/12/2011 07:33 am (UTC)I hadn't really stopped to think about the Midwest mentality of storing bulk amounts of meat until talking to you. Lots of homes keep a large freezer in their garage or basement. It makes sense, because we hunt and slaughter livestock. Especially with the children gone now, Mr. Bojo and I certainly don't need a side of beef or anything like that any longer, but a relative recently slaughtered a buffalo, and we'll take 20 pounds of it for our use.
Our county is named Saline, and our city is Salina. Both are named after our salty water. It's plenty drinkable, but it doesn't taste the greatest. So much chlorine is used to clean it that it reeks at times. Aquarium owners have to be careful, or the water will kill fish. I will drink the water if we are out in public, but I want good tasting stuff at home. I don't drink pop or juices, so I justify the expense of tasty water.