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curiouswombatA few pictures to illustrate the week.
Actually the first one is from last Sunday. It was the church AGM - and like most such, it is necessary, but not a lot of people want to be bothered attending. So we have the bribe of a free lunch... home made soup, with bread, and dessert - under the cut is a picture of the pudding as it was very pretty.
Aren't our church plates neat?
On Tuesday I was on my way to do a couple of home visits down south, and stopped in Castletown to eat my sandwich lunch.
This is the view across the harbour to the castle -
Now... a couple of months ago, the subject for the week on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
photo_scavenger was 'time'. And ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cairistiona7 posted a picture of a clock in the USA that reminded me of the Millennium clocks in a couple of our towns and villages. So I posted a picture of one of them - here. I mentioned that there seemed to have been a very efficient salesman as there were certainly more of them around just like that one.
Look closely at that picture of Castle Rushen and see if you can spot another one of the Millennium clocks.
Here's a clue...
Wednesday evening and my sister e-mailed me with the news of my niece's engagement - a nice thing. But it must have distracted me because within ten minutes of getting that news I had managed to break the catch on the back gate when I went to take the bin in, and then snap the handle on one of the kitchen cupboards!
The cupboards have been there for about 15 or 16 years - S2C fitted them himself. So getting a matching handle was not an option. I must admit that a couple of times I have thought that new handles would 'modernise' the whole kitchen, but I never got further than a vague thought. But now it has to be done - because one odd handle would look very odd. So I have been to B&Q and bought 14 new handles... 13 to use, and a spare.
I have taken a picture showing the first new handle in place, replacing the broken one, with the old one on the next cupboard -
The old handle is on the right, the shiny new stainless steel one is on the left.
It's going to take us a while to do all of those...
It was a tiring week at work because I had another nurse with me - and somehow explaining what you are doing, as you do it, is twice as tiring as doing it - even though I do really quite enjoy explaining, too. So,; the last clinic of the week was on Friday, in Ramsey. The other nurse headed back south when we finished, but I was meeting friends for an early evening dinner in Ramsey.
I thought I would sit and read for half an hour before going to meet them - and I managed to fall asleep! Just shows it was a tiring week. I was only about 15 minutes late, thankfully, and had a very nice meal at The Harbour Bistro. Had I been more alert I would have taken a picture of my rum-flavoured creme caramel so that this post would be bookended by puddings - but sadly I forgot...
Actually the first one is from last Sunday. It was the church AGM - and like most such, it is necessary, but not a lot of people want to be bothered attending. So we have the bribe of a free lunch... home made soup, with bread, and dessert - under the cut is a picture of the pudding as it was very pretty.
Aren't our church plates neat?
On Tuesday I was on my way to do a couple of home visits down south, and stopped in Castletown to eat my sandwich lunch.
This is the view across the harbour to the castle -
Now... a couple of months ago, the subject for the week on
photo_scavenger was 'time'. And cairistiona7 posted a picture of a clock in the USA that reminded me of the Millennium clocks in a couple of our towns and villages. So I posted a picture of one of them - here. I mentioned that there seemed to have been a very efficient salesman as there were certainly more of them around just like that one.Look closely at that picture of Castle Rushen and see if you can spot another one of the Millennium clocks.
Here's a clue...
Wednesday evening and my sister e-mailed me with the news of my niece's engagement - a nice thing. But it must have distracted me because within ten minutes of getting that news I had managed to break the catch on the back gate when I went to take the bin in, and then snap the handle on one of the kitchen cupboards!
The cupboards have been there for about 15 or 16 years - S2C fitted them himself. So getting a matching handle was not an option. I must admit that a couple of times I have thought that new handles would 'modernise' the whole kitchen, but I never got further than a vague thought. But now it has to be done - because one odd handle would look very odd. So I have been to B&Q and bought 14 new handles... 13 to use, and a spare.
I have taken a picture showing the first new handle in place, replacing the broken one, with the old one on the next cupboard -
The old handle is on the right, the shiny new stainless steel one is on the left.
It's going to take us a while to do all of those...
It was a tiring week at work because I had another nurse with me - and somehow explaining what you are doing, as you do it, is twice as tiring as doing it - even though I do really quite enjoy explaining, too. So,; the last clinic of the week was on Friday, in Ramsey. The other nurse headed back south when we finished, but I was meeting friends for an early evening dinner in Ramsey.
I thought I would sit and read for half an hour before going to meet them - and I managed to fall asleep! Just shows it was a tiring week. I was only about 15 minutes late, thankfully, and had a very nice meal at The Harbour Bistro. Had I been more alert I would have taken a picture of my rum-flavoured creme caramel so that this post would be bookended by puddings - but sadly I forgot...
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:07 pm (UTC)Your new handles are very smart - they'll definitely jazz up the kitchen a bit. It's wonderful how a small change can make the whole room look fresh :-)
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:46 pm (UTC)I'll take a picture when we get all the handles on - although there is no rush so it might take some time!
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:07 pm (UTC)It's easy to see how Castletown got its name. :) Great pics, as always.
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:52 pm (UTC)Not a lot of imagination going on there, was there? And the other town with a noticeable castle is known by it's English name of Peel - from Peel, or Pele, Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_tower). Its Gaelic, so older, name is Purt ny Hinshey which means the port with the island - almost as prosaic, but a little more interesting!
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:21 pm (UTC)I sympathise with the falling asleep - I've just spent the evening getting sorted for the boys going back to school and us back to work tomorrow (book bags, water bottles, PE kit, plimsolls, packed lunches, clean the shoes, etc etc...) and am rather regretting sitting down now since I shall have to get up again and I'm not sure I can...
Hope this week will be less strenuous for you!
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:53 pm (UTC)And yes, I think being spurred into doing the handles really will give the kitchen a whole new look.
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:30 pm (UTC)Our City clock looks like this (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/wurmiebaby/media/where%20i%20live/81610epclocktower.jpg.html?sort=3&o=310).
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:55 pm (UTC)Your clock is very different - and very, very, smart.
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:35 pm (UTC)Nothing is harder work than being on show all the time. My inspections (which are mostly just chatting in offices) leave me incredibly drained, though they rarely last more than three hours. I used always to plan the London ones for mornings so I could take a half day and do something nice like go to an exhibition. Don't think I *ever* did it, in reality.
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:58 pm (UTC)I must admit that it will be quite nice, this week, to just do things, and be able to listen to radio 4 in the car rather than explaining why I just did what I did, or what we are doing next - even though I do find passing on what i know in my specialism really rather rewarding.
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Date: 14/04/2013 08:50 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 14/04/2013 09:00 pm (UTC)You really live in such a lovely part of the world :-)
I really appreciate it more since I began posting pictures of it here.
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Date: 14/04/2013 10:05 pm (UTC)D-d and S2c are big fans - I'll eat them, but there are a lot of things I like more...
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Date: 15/04/2013 01:03 am (UTC)The Harbour Bistro sounds my kind of place. And lovely church china... I've never known a church to have its own monogrammed dishes like that.
I spotted the clock in your photo. *g*
Here's to a much calmer week for you!
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Date: 15/04/2013 07:36 am (UTC)I know - I did two, and I'm hoping S2C will do another couple today, and so on.
I do wonder how the church came to have the monogrammed china - it is pretty old - everything bought in the past 20 years or so is plain pale blue.
As for the clock - the odd thing is I'd never thought about it being there when I was trying to remember where the Millennium clocks were - I only really noticed when I went to take the picture!
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Date: 15/04/2013 10:02 am (UTC)Dessert looks yummy!
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Date: 15/04/2013 09:12 pm (UTC)What a beautiful castle! I would dearly love to visit Castletown and spend sometime there.
I like your new handles very much.
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Date: 15/04/2013 10:26 pm (UTC)As for the handles - we now have three in place and each one really does improve the look of the kitchen - it is surprising how something so small can make a difference.
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Date: 16/04/2013 04:18 pm (UTC)The harbour pictures remind me of beautiful summer holidays in Brittany... *iz having strong sea-longing* I may live in a beautiful part of the world and am envied by many to live so close to a medieval castle, but I'm definitely living far too far away from the sea! *g*
ETA: mind if I join photo_scavenger? I'm always so late with putting anything up and showing it around, something like this might be very helpful, apart from truly nice to follow.
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Date: 17/04/2013 07:40 pm (UTC)As for
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Date: 19/04/2013 02:42 am (UTC)So does your new kitchen hardware!
Fully agreed about explaining things to someone rather than doing them yourself. That's been a recurring theme in teaching clinicals for nursing school.
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Date: 20/04/2013 04:45 pm (UTC)Teaching is tiring - I really think those who do it full time deserve all the time off they can get!
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