Manx History Project, and a wedding anniversary.
What have I been doing these past few days?
On Tuesday my sister and I went to an event at Cregneash - it was in one of the small cottages and limited to 15 people so I was glad to have been able to get tickets. It sounds very simple, and was; Jude, the collections manager, had chosen a number of short clips about farming from the sound archives that I have been involved with cataloguing, and played them, talked a little about them, and encouraged us all to join in.
Jude is from Birmingham in the first place so admits her knowledge of farming and agriculture is not great, which was actually a good thing as a number of us then pitched in as she pondered such things as 'How did they get horses over to The Calf?' and ''Why would that gentleman say they hung onto all their oil lamps even when they got electric lighting?'
Katie, another team member, took notes as we all added bits to the conversation, and what should have lasted about 90 minutes became 2 hours, and then the conversations continued as we went to the second part of the session - tea and cakes in the cottage which is now a café. It was a lovely afternoon. Then we drove by way of Ballabeg, where my sister and her husband are buying a bungalow - it looks very nice, but it is really quite small, they will have to get rid of a lot of things.
On Wednesday S2C and I went shopping to a small retail centre out in the countryside where there is a really good deli that he likes to browse in, and another shop where I bought a lot of paper goods - napkins, party streamers, wrapping paper, gift bags, notelets and so on, to put together in a parcel to give to D-d and her NYM for their Paper Wedding Anniversary. Yes - it is a year tomorrow since they got married!
Yesterday, as well as watching the Paralympics on TV, I did more conventional shopping and finished knitting a teddy bear - I just need to stuff him and sew him up now, and today, apart from washing and pottering in the garden I have been trying to get stuff sorted out for restarting Sunday School and our September Messy Church... summer is almost over.
On Tuesday my sister and I went to an event at Cregneash - it was in one of the small cottages and limited to 15 people so I was glad to have been able to get tickets. It sounds very simple, and was; Jude, the collections manager, had chosen a number of short clips about farming from the sound archives that I have been involved with cataloguing, and played them, talked a little about them, and encouraged us all to join in.
Jude is from Birmingham in the first place so admits her knowledge of farming and agriculture is not great, which was actually a good thing as a number of us then pitched in as she pondered such things as 'How did they get horses over to The Calf?' and ''Why would that gentleman say they hung onto all their oil lamps even when they got electric lighting?'
Katie, another team member, took notes as we all added bits to the conversation, and what should have lasted about 90 minutes became 2 hours, and then the conversations continued as we went to the second part of the session - tea and cakes in the cottage which is now a café. It was a lovely afternoon. Then we drove by way of Ballabeg, where my sister and her husband are buying a bungalow - it looks very nice, but it is really quite small, they will have to get rid of a lot of things.
On Wednesday S2C and I went shopping to a small retail centre out in the countryside where there is a really good deli that he likes to browse in, and another shop where I bought a lot of paper goods - napkins, party streamers, wrapping paper, gift bags, notelets and so on, to put together in a parcel to give to D-d and her NYM for their Paper Wedding Anniversary. Yes - it is a year tomorrow since they got married!
Yesterday, as well as watching the Paralympics on TV, I did more conventional shopping and finished knitting a teddy bear - I just need to stuff him and sew him up now, and today, apart from washing and pottering in the garden I have been trying to get stuff sorted out for restarting Sunday School and our September Messy Church... summer is almost over.