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curiouswombatI mentioned last week that I was baking fruit loaves and gingerbread as we had the Mariners' Choir coming to church and we needed to lay on a supper.
I meant to post you the pictures either Sunday night or Monday - but Sunday evening I was just too tired - and I wasn't a lot better on Monday.
Last night I went out for a meal with a couple of women that I was at school with - we had a lovely evening with a nice meal and a good gossip. We have decided to do it more often. It would be difficult to do it less often, as we hadn't got together like this since we all got married, despite all living back on the island for the past few years!
Today it has rained, and rained, and rained. Except on the mountain road where it, apparently, snowed. So the mountain road to the north was closed, and the coast road north was flooded in places. Guess where I had to go to see a patient? Yep - up north. Still, it isn't often a Corsa travels far with a bow-wave...
Anyway, back to the Mariners' Choir. Under the cut is a picture of the choir, and another of the food...
This is the choir -
As you can see they are mostly retired mariners! They bring the nautical touches themselves, and their owngroupies congregation - including a lovely couple from Tennessee who visit the island every couple of years and go to every Mariners' service that takes place whilst they are here.
I took this picture of the food before we began the evening - so a lot of sandwiches are still covered, and the plates of hot sausage rolls and other pastries aren't here at all, but you get the idea. Oh - and there were another couple of trays of cake on one side, just in case!
There were about 80 -90 people in all - and there was not a lot of that left afterwards. But a number of people did congratulate us on 'the grand spread' - so a success.
This evening there is an unmissable programme on TV, for me. The Brain Doctors. It is a documentary series about the work of the neurosurgery unit at the John Radcliffe (a very famous hospital in Oxford) and I find it fascinating. But I have to admit that last week's episode gave me the giggles! One of the neurosurgeons has almost exactly the same Christian name as I do - just that hers is Scots Gaelic, mine the Manx version - sounds almost the same, spelt differently. And her attitude to parenthood was so like mine that I e-mailed D-d and told her to watch it on the iPlayer.
The doctor's son is 10 - she commented that he had reminded her last week that some 'shop-talk' over dinner is probably not suitable with 'Mum! I'm only 10!' And that she tends to send him to school unless he is so ill he probably needs to be hospitalised... 'Doctors and nurses are not sympathetic parents - we hold little truck with minor ailments!' And her final comment, to prove this point, as her son sat eating his dinner was 'He looked as if he had broken a finger last week. So we've just strapped it to the next one for a month.'
Oh yes - it was like listening to me when D-d was that age! Except that she tended to break toes regularly - and after the second lot of X-rays we just gave up bothering to go to A&E.
Still, she seems to have turned out well enough - and I'm sure Mhairi Speirs' son will do just as well.
So - must go and make coffee, go to the loo, and get myself settled to watch. Good job S2C has gone to bed (work last night but not tonight) as he absolutely hates anything like this.
I meant to post you the pictures either Sunday night or Monday - but Sunday evening I was just too tired - and I wasn't a lot better on Monday.
Last night I went out for a meal with a couple of women that I was at school with - we had a lovely evening with a nice meal and a good gossip. We have decided to do it more often. It would be difficult to do it less often, as we hadn't got together like this since we all got married, despite all living back on the island for the past few years!
Today it has rained, and rained, and rained. Except on the mountain road where it, apparently, snowed. So the mountain road to the north was closed, and the coast road north was flooded in places. Guess where I had to go to see a patient? Yep - up north. Still, it isn't often a Corsa travels far with a bow-wave...
Anyway, back to the Mariners' Choir. Under the cut is a picture of the choir, and another of the food...
This is the choir -
As you can see they are mostly retired mariners! They bring the nautical touches themselves, and their own
I took this picture of the food before we began the evening - so a lot of sandwiches are still covered, and the plates of hot sausage rolls and other pastries aren't here at all, but you get the idea. Oh - and there were another couple of trays of cake on one side, just in case!
There were about 80 -90 people in all - and there was not a lot of that left afterwards. But a number of people did congratulate us on 'the grand spread' - so a success.
This evening there is an unmissable programme on TV, for me. The Brain Doctors. It is a documentary series about the work of the neurosurgery unit at the John Radcliffe (a very famous hospital in Oxford) and I find it fascinating. But I have to admit that last week's episode gave me the giggles! One of the neurosurgeons has almost exactly the same Christian name as I do - just that hers is Scots Gaelic, mine the Manx version - sounds almost the same, spelt differently. And her attitude to parenthood was so like mine that I e-mailed D-d and told her to watch it on the iPlayer.
The doctor's son is 10 - she commented that he had reminded her last week that some 'shop-talk' over dinner is probably not suitable with 'Mum! I'm only 10!' And that she tends to send him to school unless he is so ill he probably needs to be hospitalised... 'Doctors and nurses are not sympathetic parents - we hold little truck with minor ailments!' And her final comment, to prove this point, as her son sat eating his dinner was 'He looked as if he had broken a finger last week. So we've just strapped it to the next one for a month.'
Oh yes - it was like listening to me when D-d was that age! Except that she tended to break toes regularly - and after the second lot of X-rays we just gave up bothering to go to A&E.
Still, she seems to have turned out well enough - and I'm sure Mhairi Speirs' son will do just as well.
So - must go and make coffee, go to the loo, and get myself settled to watch. Good job S2C has gone to bed (work last night but not tonight) as he absolutely hates anything like this.
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Date: 13/02/2013 09:11 pm (UTC)I'm no doctor of nurse, but I never bothered about x-rays when I broke fingers or toes, and they've turned out all right too.
I hope you had a great time watching The Brain Doctors.
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Date: 13/02/2013 10:06 pm (UTC)This week's Brain Doctors was mostly about the children's unit - and fascinating as usual. Nowhere near as depressing as you might expect- so many of the children make recoveries that would have been almost unthinkable a few years ago.
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Date: 13/02/2013 09:27 pm (UTC)I read about the Brain Doctors series - sometimes I wish we had UK tv but, on the whole, it's better for us to watch french TV. Maybe they'll dub it and show it over here....
I was a bit like that with my kids minor injuries - but then, I used to work in a veterinary lab - not squeamish ;-)
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Date: 13/02/2013 10:09 pm (UTC)What a pity that you can't get the iPlayer. They really should open it to non-UK residents for a small fee.
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Date: 13/02/2013 09:34 pm (UTC)(I left the room rather hurriedly when they started in on some of the children's neurology cases - since having small ones of my own I am a complete wimp about any medical story involving children...)
The new Children's Hospital at the JR does have a fabulous Children's Outpatients department - the waiting room is like such a well-equipped playgroup that I swear Second used to get himself sent there on purpose!
(And they also have a separate teenage waiting area with more appropriate adolescent distractions, like iPods and computer games and magazines, which I thought was great - sick teenagers are neither little children nor adults, after all, and need distractions and comforts of their own.)
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Date: 13/02/2013 10:12 pm (UTC)And a proper teenagers area is such a good idea - well done the JR.
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Date: 13/02/2013 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 13/02/2013 09:48 pm (UTC)Currently immune to Mariners' teas on account of having eaten little but cake and crisps while on my travels. But it does look rather magnificent.
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Date: 13/02/2013 10:17 pm (UTC)See how educational JL is!
You do get some lowlanders who pronounce it a but like Mary - which I always think is sad - imagine not knowing how to pronounce your own name.
There was a wide range of sandwiches - and an even wider range of cakes! I kind of picked as I poured tea and filled kettles and things, ate about 1/4 of what most of the groupies ate, and regarded it as my main meal of the day!
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Date: 13/02/2013 09:49 pm (UTC)The spread looks absolutely scrumptious!
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Date: 13/02/2013 10:19 pm (UTC)And yes - the 'supper' was rather impressive.
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Date: 13/02/2013 10:31 pm (UTC):(
What a lovely looking choral group! And the food looks fantastic. I want to dive into that table.
:D
We never bothered with x-rays or much when it was fingers or toes. I'm no nurse but my kids only stayed home if they had high fevers.
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Date: 13/02/2013 11:49 pm (UTC)It was a very good supper, I must say - I nibbled as I filled kettles and poured tea and so on.
And I really think it was no bad thing to bring those kids up tough!
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Date: 13/02/2013 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 13/02/2013 11:12 pm (UTC)I had no idea that a programme called the Brain Doctors was on. Going to look out for that.
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Date: 13/02/2013 11:50 pm (UTC)Brain Doctors is BBC2, so it should be on the iPlayer.
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Date: 14/02/2013 12:02 am (UTC)The show sounds quite interesting, actually, and I suspect it is true - rather like the accountant's checkbook being in the worst condition and the hairdresser needing to condition her own hair.
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 14/02/2013 11:25 am (UTC)ather like the accountant's checkbook being in the worst condition and the hairdresser needing to condition her own hair.
Absolutely. One of the old school friends I was out with on Tuesday is married to a builder - and was complaining that when it rains she has buckets in a couple of places where the roof leaks!
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Date: 14/02/2013 12:19 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 14/02/2013 02:17 am (UTC)I'll be catching up with episode 2 tomorrow. From what a couple of friends have posted on FB (who have young children with SB and H) I take it this episode focuses more on children? They've said how emotional they found it to watch, so I'm expecting to be moved by it.
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Date: 14/02/2013 11:38 am (UTC)This week they were looking much more at the work of the paediatric unit - a young man with a congenital condition (and the problems of when do the paediatricians transfer care to the adult services), a little boy with a possible cancerous brain tumour, and a mother whose scan showed the fetus probably had spina bifida.
I think I would have a hanky close at hand if I were you.
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Date: 14/02/2013 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 14/02/2013 11:42 am (UTC)The food was good - I kind of grazed as I poured tea, filled kettles and so on so got a taster here and there.
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Date: 14/02/2013 09:24 am (UTC)I was careful with our firstborn until I realized I was going to live in the emergency room if I didn't figure things out! He was a terrible one for breaking toes. After the first time, we realized the medical community can't do much for a broken toe. I can wrap the broken digit to its neighbor as well as the nurse. He did break his foot as the result from a fall from a high piece of equipment, and I did take him to the doctor for that. He had a particularly bad break in a growth plate which worried his doctor, but he seemed to heal and hasn't had problems. All those injuries are the natural consequence of going about full blast rather than sedately. The last time I recall him going about barefoot, he was running through the kitchen and launched himself into our sunken family room. Upon his landing, he impaled his foot with a pencil that had been left on the floor (probably knocked from the end table by Trophy who routinely cleared objects from it). How he managed to spear himself with something that had been lying flat might be puzzling to some, but we were well accustomed to such outcomes. He pulled the pencil out, applied some antibiotic cream, and put a bandage on it. He gave up going barefoot. He doesn't even wear sandals, because he would manage to break toes even then!
During his early years, I really was concerned that authorities might think he was physically abused! Of course, if they had removed him from our home and placed him in "protective" care, they wouldn't have kept him long!
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Date: 14/02/2013 11:49 am (UTC)I remember the same thought, when a broken nose was followed by a broken toe within a couple of months - both having happened in weird circumstances that sounded as if you must, surely, have made them up!
I can well believe your son managing to spear himself with something that was lying flat on the ground - in our family I was the one who did things like that - and still do, on occasions.
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Date: 15/02/2013 06:57 am (UTC)In our community, parents have to fill out a health form when their child enters middle school. It asked all sorts of questions about broken bones and lacerations. I was horrified that I had to check so many boxes. At that point, I wasn't as worried about governmental intervention for abuse, because he was old enough to explain it all. He was a mixture of fearlessness, curiosity, and carelessness!
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Date: 14/02/2013 10:38 pm (UTC)I'm laughing at your atitude to illness and injury as I suspect farmers are much the same with their kids. My dad was raised on a farm and we were never hurt or ill. Even when, age 15, I was so concussed from a riding fall I couldn't remember what month of the year it was, my dad still had to be persuaded that seeking medical help might be a good idea!
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Date: 14/02/2013 11:11 pm (UTC)The food was very good - it was a bit like feeding the 5,000 - but with better provisions!