A Break in the Weather.
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curiouswombatI am off work today - using up some annual leave days before the end of March. And it has been a beautiful day. I had to pop into town, and took a couple of pictures simply to contrast with all the recent ones.
It is difficult to believe that these two pictures are of the same sea we have seen so far this year...
Looking back towards Onchan.
The Tower of Refuge.
That is so perfect that it almost looks unreal, but it is entirely as I took it.
But looking down from the promenade along the sea-wall I could see this -
As the tide was quite low the storm-water holding tanks, built underneath the promenade walkway, were being emptied ready for the next deluge.
And a couple of other pics, just because I like them. I called at a friend's house on my way home and thought you might like her 'still-life with sheep' on the bench outside her door -
And I stopped to look at the dried rhododendron flowers in her garden. How amazing is it that, despite gusts of 70 - 80 mph winds on and off since well before Christmas, these delicate blossom skeletons are all still on the bush?
Totally unrelated, I have been doing a spot of tidying up over the past couple of weeks, and pointed out to D-d that, sitting upstairs, there was a ball of very thick, plush, wool and a pair of enormous needles, with a pattern, that had been a gift to her from my sister a couple of years ago.
The reply was "Yeah... but they're to knit another scarf! I don't need another scarf - I've got at least five already."
"Can I have them, then?" I asked.
"Please! Do what you want with them," she said.
I had no need for a scarf either - but there was just enough wool to make a very cuddly cushion cover...
It is difficult to believe that these two pictures are of the same sea we have seen so far this year...
Looking back towards Onchan.
The Tower of Refuge.
That is so perfect that it almost looks unreal, but it is entirely as I took it.
But looking down from the promenade along the sea-wall I could see this -
As the tide was quite low the storm-water holding tanks, built underneath the promenade walkway, were being emptied ready for the next deluge.
And a couple of other pics, just because I like them. I called at a friend's house on my way home and thought you might like her 'still-life with sheep' on the bench outside her door -
And I stopped to look at the dried rhododendron flowers in her garden. How amazing is it that, despite gusts of 70 - 80 mph winds on and off since well before Christmas, these delicate blossom skeletons are all still on the bush?
Totally unrelated, I have been doing a spot of tidying up over the past couple of weeks, and pointed out to D-d that, sitting upstairs, there was a ball of very thick, plush, wool and a pair of enormous needles, with a pattern, that had been a gift to her from my sister a couple of years ago.
The reply was "Yeah... but they're to knit another scarf! I don't need another scarf - I've got at least five already."
"Can I have them, then?" I asked.
"Please! Do what you want with them," she said.
I had no need for a scarf either - but there was just enough wool to make a very cuddly cushion cover...
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Date: 10/02/2014 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 10/02/2014 07:46 pm (UTC)And that is a very nice cover.
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Date: 10/02/2014 08:05 pm (UTC)The cover is really nice and soft -I might even get around to doing some more.
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Date: 10/02/2014 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 10/02/2014 08:33 pm (UTC)Here's hoping you keep your feet dry!
It's raining again, here, now...
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Date: 10/02/2014 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/02/2014 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/02/2014 08:18 pm (UTC)Pippin asks permission to curl up on that plush cushion.
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Date: 10/02/2014 08:37 pm (UTC)Pippin would be very welcome to come and curl up on the cushion.
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Date: 10/02/2014 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/02/2014 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/02/2014 09:25 pm (UTC)The rain really is relentless isn't it! All the transport down here in t'South is really suffering now. Even the railways! What with that and tube strikes ACK!!
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Date: 10/02/2014 10:09 pm (UTC)I have been thinking about you when I saw the tube strike on the news. And today when I saw the Thames beginning to overflow badly, too.
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Date: 10/02/2014 09:27 pm (UTC)Very cute cuddly cushion cover!
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Date: 10/02/2014 10:11 pm (UTC)The cushion cover is quite a success - more useful than if it had been a scarf, anyway.
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Date: 10/02/2014 09:46 pm (UTC)I didn't know about holding tanks along sea walls. I learn something new every day.
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Date: 10/02/2014 10:18 pm (UTC)It was lovely to just be able to potter around today, and the sunshine really made it even better.
The storm water holding tanks were built under our promenade a few years ago - and have proved to be very useful. They help to stop drains being overwhelmed with the volume of water so we don't have it gushing up out of the grids rather than going down them, which happened in the past, sometimes. Then it is allowed out as the tide goes out.
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Date: 10/02/2014 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/02/2014 10:21 pm (UTC)The cushion cover is a long strip made into an envelope shape with three buttons along the flap - probably the easiest thing I have knitted since I made a scarf when I was about eight - and quicker, as the wool was so thick.
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Date: 10/02/2014 10:06 pm (UTC)I do love the views around your island.
:)
That's a lovely cushion cover you've made!
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Date: 10/02/2014 10:32 pm (UTC)The cushion cover is snuggly - good for the not-so-nice days.
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Date: 10/02/2014 10:11 pm (UTC)Your cushion gave me an idea - I have a lovely chunky scarf which I've only worn a couple of times because it's HUGE - like the old Doctor Who! It's just occurred to me that I could transform it into a lovely snuggly cushion cover (or two)....hmmm...plans afoot...
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Date: 10/02/2014 10:34 pm (UTC)Have fun converting your scarf - I have to say the cover is rather nice and cuddly.
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Date: 10/02/2014 11:14 pm (UTC)It's been grey, grim and damp here. Not exactly a change. We're much better off than folks down south, though. Dave gets cross about things every time he sees or hears the news, though.
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Date: 10/02/2014 11:30 pm (UTC)As for Dave - oh gosh, I can imagine - I think you'd better ban him from reading, or watching, the news for the sake of his blood pressure.
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Date: 10/02/2014 11:51 pm (UTC)That rhododendron is a survivor!
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Date: 11/02/2014 10:05 am (UTC)The rhododendron fascinated me - it had 20 or more dried out blossoms on it despite all the wind and the rain.
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Date: 11/02/2014 10:06 am (UTC)I hadn't thought of the Game of Thrones and the Tower of Refuge, but you are absolutely right.
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Date: 11/02/2014 03:13 am (UTC)Also, it's good to see that I'm not the only one who likes to collect driftwood and shells to make little still life projects! I love the one on your friend's deck.
Thank you for sharing your photos, they are all lovely! It's wonderful to be able to see the world through someone else's eyes and to see places I'll likely never visit. :)
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Date: 11/02/2014 10:10 am (UTC)The effect of being able to see the world through someone else's eyes is one of the real beauties of LJ - it gives us time and place to explain the what and why of the pictures.
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Date: 11/02/2014 04:12 am (UTC)Oh, neat cushion cover, I do like the buttons, now all you need it a kitty to curl up on it!
Huggs,
Lynda
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Date: 11/02/2014 10:17 am (UTC)So there are similar tanks in two or three places around the island now.
I like the buttons, too, they added a bit of a 'designer' touch - and they weren't expensive, maybe $1 each.
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Date: 11/02/2014 03:23 pm (UTC)Fingers crossed that soon this horrible weather pattern both our countries are stuck in finally breaks!
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Date: 11/02/2014 03:52 pm (UTC)I was just think how nice that, although it rained overnight, it was dry today - and pretty still - when I realised the wind speed is actually about 25mph - I've got so used to it that I hardly notice!
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Date: 11/02/2014 08:42 pm (UTC)bliss!
Love the cushion too
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Date: 11/02/2014 09:10 pm (UTC)The cushion is cuddly, if not terribly stylish!