The Way of the Wombat

This is it! The final week of photos. Not that I will give up photo-spamming you all - but there will not necessarily be seven pictures taken on seven seperate days every week. I will try to mostly do a picture post on a Sunday, though - I have got used to it, and I find that carrying the camera has become second nature.

I think my 'eye' has improved over the year - later pictures are, perhaps, better on average than the first ones.

Someone asked if I intended to finish with a bang - but no - it was not a terrible exciting week; even snow has stopped being exciting this winter!

So this week's pictures ( include flowers, trees, and the sea - a fairly typical set! )

So there we are - 365 pictures all on my Flickr account. It has been a fascinating project, even on the days when I have been desperate for a picture and you have shared my dinner, or had a picture of a sleeping cat!

I must post sometime about the statistics for these pictures at Flickr - one picture has been looked at over 100 times, and I think I can almost guarantee that no-one will be able to guess which one without looking at those stats.

So - now to log-out of Flickr, and then go back to The Winter Tale. Hopefully the chapter will be readable by mid-week!

I have been off work this week, as has S2C - so we have actually had some time together. This does not appear to be immediately reflected in the pictures!

So this week we have ( technology, chocolate and rocks... )

S2C is now busy sorting out his new, shiny, computer... this all began with my suggestion that he buy a new chair last Sunday... then he thought a new desk would be good, and if he didn't have to have the printer under his feet he would have a wider choice of desks...

Then when we went to look for a wireless printer he thought upgrading his graphics card would be a good idea, except that he couldn't with his current computer...

The one thing that hasn't been replaced is... the desk. We can't find one that fits the space, is the right height, and has room for the mouse on the keyboard shelf. :~(

Oh - and we both bought each other chocolates for Valentine's day - and the two boxes are almost identical!

Here is the week in pictures. It's been a good week - although some of the good things were not things that photographed well! For example; spending over an hour helping work out a system that will allow a very disabled young man use the toilet was very satisfying, but not exactly something to use as photo of the day...

Things that did allow for photography included ( cat, shiny things, and something everyday that is well over 100 years old )

Daughter-dear rang home about 2 o'clock to say that she had reached half way on her walk - her feet are holding up, but her thighs are beginning to ache - I think it will be about 7 or 8 tonight by the time she'll finish - if she makes it. I am impressed that she's done over 12 miles already.

Thank you to LJ friends who gave to encourage her - and how wonderful is this? She asked me if it could be mentioned at church last Sunday - and for anyone who wanted to donate to simply pass the money to me - our wonderful congregation have, over the two weeks, given my £205! D-d is trying so hard to justify their belief in her - but I know they will all be as impressed as me even if 12.5 miles is as far as she got.

I reckon she must have been able to keep going after her lunch break, though, or she'd probably have rung to say she'd given up. I'll let you know how she does.

ETA - D-d completed the walk at about 9.15pm - they had forgotten to add the mileage from the university to the path and so actually walked over 27 miles! It took her 12 hours, but with a break of almost an hour and a half at the half way mark where they stopped and had lunch. 26 of them set off, and 'almost everyone' finished. The last few hours were done in the dark with a few torches!

I am inordinately proud of her, as she has never done anything like this before, and she has raised at least £300 herself - as a group they should, hopefully, reach their £3,000 target.

Her feet are fine - many thanks to zanthinegirl for the sock info. Her thighs and her knees hurt, and she is on her way home for a hot bath.

It has been a week in which the weather, more or less, returned to normal for the time of year - and so some of the pictures do not have a lot of colour... others do!

So, under the cut this week ( grey days, a reminder of spring, and a pile of junk for Kes! )

Now I intend to drink a wee glass of wine, and go back to Minas Tirith in midsummer; not quite so difficult as it would have been last week!

This week included my birthday and New Year - oddly, the pictures don't really reflect either of these events!

Instead they include ( an angel, a posh frock, and a girl and her granny... )

My plan for the next few days on my journal is to show a couple more pictures of the festival of trees, post the next chapter of the Winter Tale, and do some serious squeeing about the Middle Earth Fanfic Awards...

We've had a wee bit of snow today. Only about 1" or so, but unusual for us. The main problem is that the island is so hilly that if the roads get slippery-slidy a lot of us can't access the main roads, and so are stuck, from the point of view of using our cars.

So I didn't actually take a picture of the snow - today's picture shows what the nativity in church is like when you do it by the seat of your pants, using whoever is there!

( It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... )

40 weeks down and only 12 to go - how fast the time is going!

This week I've been quite busy - you have got to click to see the wonders of ( cakes, cards, Little London, the elephants' graveyard and the world's most psychedelic gingerbread snowmen - ever! )

A number of children went home with green tongues...

It's Sunday again - another week of photographs. The two main themes of the week seem to be weather and preparing for Christmas, seascapes seem to have featured quite a bit, too. We have had a great deal of weather this week...

( mostly with water... )

Now - I have the next chapter of Brotherhood ready to post tomorrow, and the one after that half written, three cakes iced, and a load of washing to get out of the machine and hang up. I have knitting to finish for Christmas and cards to make, both pleasant ways to spend the rest of the afternoon.

Think I'll go make some coffee.

The week has gone by quickly. It has included at least one of those meetings where you find yourself thinking 'Well that's an hour and a half I'm never getting back...' a lovely meal out, changeable weather.

The pictures reflect some of this, but not all of it. There is one which will gladden hesadevil's heart, remembering her post about 'guys', and there is quite a long bit about Remembrance Sunday as well.

( confused flowers, a rainbow, and some children doing something traditional - all under here )


And now I must go to finish off dinner - there is a casserole in the oven, I just need to do potatoes to go with it - and be grateful that I am here, and I have food to eat, in peace.

I've been away from home most of the week, at a Royal College of Nursing Conference for Specialists in Continence Care, in York. So I was conferencing by day, and socialising by evening. I was really tired by the time I got home, and rather pleased for the extra hour in bed last night.

The pictures for this week ( include more than one tree, knickers, and our bedroom )

The next chapter of Brotherhood is completed - I did it long-hand on the boat, and as soon as S2C is up to nit-picking it for me, I will be able to post it - so probably tomorrow or Tuesday. And it's back to work tomorrow. There will probably be at least 25 messages on my voice mail...