365 Project Week 31
I'm afraid the images this week are a bit samey - more of the sea, ships. plants and the cat. Oddly enough one or two more interesting things have happened during the week - just not been the sort of thing to inspire photography.
But the sea and ships are always interesting - well, to me!
Monday - I was in the south of the island in the morning, and stopped to take a picture of some gulls all sitting on a rock at Gansey - but when I looked at the pictures I decided this, spur-of-the-moment point and shoot, one was better!
Tuesday - this was simply snapped at the roadside - there is something so other worldly about the dead heads of cow parsley - they fascinate me -
Wednesday. I was at a talk on equality and diversity for most of the afternoon - one of those mandatory training sessions that are vaguely interesting, but you feel you could have coped without. When it finished I took a short break to go and visit the ducks in the arboretum. Our arboretum was a millennium project and is therefore 30 years old this year... yes, I do have that right! We celebrated the millennium of Tynwald (our parliament) in 1979. The National arboretum was planted then, and is a lovely spot to draw breath and clear the brain.
Here are some of the ducks -
The trees are fading, but we don't get the beautiful reds and golds I see in pictures taken by LJ friends in the USA - ours mostly just fade, go a bit brown, and fall, to rustle under foot.
Thursday - to be honest it was such a blah day that I can't remember anything about it at all! However the cat took over this box - and I decided he was more photogenic than anything else I'd seen all day!
Friday - now this was actually a very interesting day. The head of the Queen's Nursing Institute visited the island, and spent about an hour at my base in the morning, sitting in my office with about 10 of us (yes - it was a bit cramped!) drinking tea and discussing our role, and how the QNI could help us. She quickly understood that we are truly reliant on ourselves, because the weather was not good, and her plane was delayed by over an hour!
In the afternoon, to coincide with her visit, we had an afternoon tea-party to celebrate 150 years of District Nursing, to which a number of retired DNs came, as well as a lot of us who currently work in Community. The oldest lady was over 80, and is one of those whose DN qualification actually was "Queen's Nurse" - Rosemary Cook (the visiting head of the QNI) was very happy to meet one of these old-style QNs. We got this elderly nurse to cut the 'birthday cake'.
Before the cutting of the cake, however, the current Director of Community Nursing made a speech about the history, and how it compared with the current role of the DNs - and guess who wrote it for her...? I actually did it as a hand out for the local press - but our director said it was exactly what she had wanted to say, so she used big chunks of it. And came over and thanked me nicely afterwards, too.
I will actually put that speech/article onto my journal - in case anyone is interested, but it is on my work computer, so I'll have to remember to e-mail it to myself.
The tea-party was very crowded, and others were taking pictures, so I didn't bother. Instead, when I got home from work, I thought I'd take some pictures in the garden as there was a storm blowing up, and I expected it to be a bit sad by the next morning. So - here is a corner which is still colourful -
And yes, if you look carefully there is a small dragon there!
It really blew a hooley overnight, and was still stormy on Saturday - the wind was gusting up to 70mph. But actually the garden still looked fine!
Mum and I want out for lunch and then did the shopping. Then I decided that the dog and I would at least try to walk out on the ayres - she was on her lead so she couldn't really get blown away! We didn't walk as far as usual - poor Willow was getting blown about a bit and decided to go back to the car after only a few minutes! Can't say I blamed her - I think it was a steady 35 -40 mph out there!
The shingle out at the Point of Ayre forms a storm beach (differing sizes of stones in distinct terraces up from the sea) - and the sea drops quickly to be very deep not far out. So it is not unusual to see quite large boats close up. I took this picture mainly to show how stormy it was - I love the look of the sea when it is like this -
The boat is the Lagan Viking who travels regularly between Birkenhead and Belfast. When she passes the point she will be a bit over half way in a journey that takes about 7 hours - and I'm guessing a good few of the passengers would be very glad to arrive in Belfast on Saturday!
By today it was hard to believe it had been so stormy yesterday. I drove along Douglas promenade on my way to M&S this afternoon and took this picture of a visitor in the bay -
She is RFA Largs Bay - a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel designed to be a LSD (landing ship dock) - she carries landing ships and has an after deck which can take two helicopters. I don't know why she is here - possibly just a courtesy visit.
You will notice there are no pictures of S2C whose birthday it is today. Poor husband was at work last night, and is back at work for his sixth shift tonight - so he is in bed! However - the trip to M&S was to get some nice cakes for him to take to work with him.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE.
But the sea and ships are always interesting - well, to me!
Monday - I was in the south of the island in the morning, and stopped to take a picture of some gulls all sitting on a rock at Gansey - but when I looked at the pictures I decided this, spur-of-the-moment point and shoot, one was better!
Tuesday - this was simply snapped at the roadside - there is something so other worldly about the dead heads of cow parsley - they fascinate me -
Wednesday. I was at a talk on equality and diversity for most of the afternoon - one of those mandatory training sessions that are vaguely interesting, but you feel you could have coped without. When it finished I took a short break to go and visit the ducks in the arboretum. Our arboretum was a millennium project and is therefore 30 years old this year... yes, I do have that right! We celebrated the millennium of Tynwald (our parliament) in 1979. The National arboretum was planted then, and is a lovely spot to draw breath and clear the brain.
Here are some of the ducks -
The trees are fading, but we don't get the beautiful reds and golds I see in pictures taken by LJ friends in the USA - ours mostly just fade, go a bit brown, and fall, to rustle under foot.
Thursday - to be honest it was such a blah day that I can't remember anything about it at all! However the cat took over this box - and I decided he was more photogenic than anything else I'd seen all day!
Friday - now this was actually a very interesting day. The head of the Queen's Nursing Institute visited the island, and spent about an hour at my base in the morning, sitting in my office with about 10 of us (yes - it was a bit cramped!) drinking tea and discussing our role, and how the QNI could help us. She quickly understood that we are truly reliant on ourselves, because the weather was not good, and her plane was delayed by over an hour!
In the afternoon, to coincide with her visit, we had an afternoon tea-party to celebrate 150 years of District Nursing, to which a number of retired DNs came, as well as a lot of us who currently work in Community. The oldest lady was over 80, and is one of those whose DN qualification actually was "Queen's Nurse" - Rosemary Cook (the visiting head of the QNI) was very happy to meet one of these old-style QNs. We got this elderly nurse to cut the 'birthday cake'.
Before the cutting of the cake, however, the current Director of Community Nursing made a speech about the history, and how it compared with the current role of the DNs - and guess who wrote it for her...? I actually did it as a hand out for the local press - but our director said it was exactly what she had wanted to say, so she used big chunks of it. And came over and thanked me nicely afterwards, too.
I will actually put that speech/article onto my journal - in case anyone is interested, but it is on my work computer, so I'll have to remember to e-mail it to myself.
The tea-party was very crowded, and others were taking pictures, so I didn't bother. Instead, when I got home from work, I thought I'd take some pictures in the garden as there was a storm blowing up, and I expected it to be a bit sad by the next morning. So - here is a corner which is still colourful -
And yes, if you look carefully there is a small dragon there!
It really blew a hooley overnight, and was still stormy on Saturday - the wind was gusting up to 70mph. But actually the garden still looked fine!
Mum and I want out for lunch and then did the shopping. Then I decided that the dog and I would at least try to walk out on the ayres - she was on her lead so she couldn't really get blown away! We didn't walk as far as usual - poor Willow was getting blown about a bit and decided to go back to the car after only a few minutes! Can't say I blamed her - I think it was a steady 35 -40 mph out there!
The shingle out at the Point of Ayre forms a storm beach (differing sizes of stones in distinct terraces up from the sea) - and the sea drops quickly to be very deep not far out. So it is not unusual to see quite large boats close up. I took this picture mainly to show how stormy it was - I love the look of the sea when it is like this -
The boat is the Lagan Viking who travels regularly between Birkenhead and Belfast. When she passes the point she will be a bit over half way in a journey that takes about 7 hours - and I'm guessing a good few of the passengers would be very glad to arrive in Belfast on Saturday!
By today it was hard to believe it had been so stormy yesterday. I drove along Douglas promenade on my way to M&S this afternoon and took this picture of a visitor in the bay -
She is RFA Largs Bay - a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel designed to be a LSD (landing ship dock) - she carries landing ships and has an after deck which can take two helicopters. I don't know why she is here - possibly just a courtesy visit.
You will notice there are no pictures of S2C whose birthday it is today. Poor husband was at work last night, and is back at work for his sixth shift tonight - so he is in bed! However - the trip to M&S was to get some nice cakes for him to take to work with him.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE.