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S2C and I went down to The Sound again this morning as he really wanted one of their breakfast burritos. The tide was lower, the sun was shining - and the seals had hauled up both on their favourite rock now not submerged, and on Kitterland which is really a very tiny island -

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We counted over 30 altogether - and they were calling loudly, which is fun to hear. Mostly quite a deep sound, but occasionally a more musical note, although still more selkie than mermaid :)

A little further out was someone on a paddle board - I am assuming they knew what they were doing as they seemed to be heading into the narrow passage between Kitterland and The Calf, and there is a real clash of currents there!

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Clicking on the pictures will take you to Flickr where you can zoom in and see the expressions on the seals' faces :)
curiouswombat: (notes from a small island)
I 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.

Click for the pics... )

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...

Look! )
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We are currently in the midst of the TT motorcycle festival which, for me, means I am making what feels like industrial quantities of carrot cake - not to mention chocolate cake, chocolate brownies, flapjack, gingerbread... We sell filled baps, hot pasty, and lots and lots of home-made cakes at church to the spectators, as our church grounds are an excellent spot to watch the racing.

So this was yesterday's baking in my house -

carrot cake and chocolate cake

That was the third 18 piece carrot cake I've made, and I will make at least one more. The chocolate cakes behind, together, come to the same size but somehow, on that angle, they look a lot smaller. I know now that these are 'sheet cakes' - thank you [livejournal.com profile] bojojoti - in this case dark chocolate with chocolate frosting and fudge chunks.

I've also done 3 trays of chocolate brownie, 2 trays of oat flapjack, and one of gingerbread the same size as the carrot cake. And D-d has also been turning out her specialities - cherry frangipan, fruit flapjack, rocky road and tiffin. I reckon, just between the two of us, our personal cake sales will raise about £170 - and our input is about 10% of the whole!

For something completely different, there are a few pictures I took a week or more ago, just of the sea, and a stairway to nowhere... Read more... )
curiouswombat: (notes from a small island)
Gosh - it's nearly a week since Valentine's Day, and I have a picture I took then that I posted in [livejournal.com profile] photo_scavenger but forgot to post here.

So starting with that one; S2C got me a card and a chocolate heart - I hadn't got him anything similar, but I had the day off work so I took him to The Hawthorn for lunch. I really should have taken a picture of my creole cod with stir fried vegetables as it was very pretty - but I didn't...

However I did take a picture outside the pub that shows that spring is trying to arrive already...Read more... )

Actually, after lunch I took him to one of his favourite places - the local computer shop. Because, while in spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love, those of a middle-aged man turn to thoughts of ultra-books and similar. Where he actually found a new computer desk that he really likes! After using a rather wobbly white metal one for the past twelve or thirteen years. This one is black metal and glass, more stylish, more stable, and fits in with the rest of the room much better.

Pic.... )

And now for a few I took yesterday, just because it was a lovely day. It was actually cold enough overnight to require de-icing of the car to go to work - but very quickly it became bright and sunny, and although the temperature never did get above about 8 -9C there was no wind to speak of, everything was still; so it felt warmer as we are used to an almost permanent chill factor all winter!

I took one especially for photo-scavenger - the theme this week is 'time' - I'll let you guess which one!

Quite a few pictures of a nice day... )

Today was a much greyer day, and windy. But at least yesterday reminded us that spring could well be on the way.
curiouswombat: (notes from a small island)
It's been quite a quiet week - I have written some odd bits, mainly from Schmoop bingo prompts, (which I will start to share, soon) got caught up in sorrow and angst in 'the story that kicked me,' and went to work.

Also I spent time talking on the phone to both the daughter and my sister - I will share a little of those conversations...

My sister (a MacMillan Nurse) and her husband have been off-island to visit his brother P, in the south of England, who is dying of lung cancer. He knows he is, but is having a couple of sessions of chemo to see if it will give him more time - if the first two sessions have been beneficial he will continue, if not, he will stop. His youngest daughter (aged 8) is running 'a competition' for everyone to guess 'what date do you think all of Daddy's hair will fall out?' My sister said "What happens for the person who gets it right?" Kyla said "They win a prize." "What?" asked my sister.

I repeated this to my daughter and she came out with the right answer before I got to it - see if you can -

answer and pictures under the cut )

This week I have to finish sorting out 'The Shoe-boxes' as they need to be at church on Sunday, and I should do some card making too. But I have a feeling that fic is going to keep poking me...

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