Sorry - I am a bit missing in action at the moment; the weather has been horrible and we have been sitting around waiting for things to happen involving motorbikes for a lot of time - still serving food and drink to spectators who are also waiting for things to happen and are eating because they are bored ( Read more... )

It has been a tiring TT - rain showers meant delays, the rest days became contingency race days and there were quite a few days when I spent a lot more of the day at church than at home. Despite delays and damp, windy, weather only one of the competitors was injured enough to still be in hospital today, and three or four of those 45,000 visitors ( Read more... )

Apologies for not keeping up with everyone - every time I go to read my FList I get about half way through and then get interrupted - then when I get back I read about half of what's now there... and so on. ☹️☹️☹️

And it's about a week since I last posted, too. Yesterday D-d and S2C and I went to an interesting talk at the Manx Museum Women in ( Read more... )

T.T. finished on Saturday afternoon, and we began our tidy-up at church, finished it after yesterday's service, and I spent yesterday afternoon and evening doing nothing more exciting than sitting in the garden, and doing quiche and salad for tea ( Read more... )

I'm sorry - I've not been here as much as usual recently. Please aim me at anything important/interesting that I have missed. I have been doing some extra shifts in the bookshop, and getting a lot of baking done ready for the TT festival - first full day is Monday ( Read more... )

And breathe... tomorrow is the last day of TT Fortnight, I have baked my last Victoria sandwich and my last tray of carrot cake for TT 2022. Also, along the way, four fruit loaves, 2 banana cakes, a tray of white chocolate cake, a tray of flapjack, a tray of Biscoff cake, 2 gingerbreads, a chocolate cake and some chocolate brownies. I think my ( Read more... )

I have been a bit missing here for the last few days, although I did try, yesterday afternoon, to catch up on my friends list a bit. I will probably be a bit scarce for the rest of this fortnight as it is TT and I am busy baking and then helping in church for the practice and race periods ( Read more... )

And Chapter 16 is ready! Thanks as usual to my beloved beta speakr2customrs.

This chapter is, like the others, around 2,000 words in length (2,185 to be exact!) and I would rate it as 'teen'.

Chapter 16; Avoidance.

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T.T. is over for another year - due to the amount of time missed in the first week we ended up being at church from 9am until 9pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week gone. Fortunately one family took on themselves to come up and take over from 6pm until 9 each evening, so everyone else went home if they could get there, and the ( Read more... )

So, we are over half way through the TT Festival for this year, and so far out of a planned 6 practice sessions and a day of racing we have had one practice session. Every other session has been cancelled because of adverse weather. No-one can remember a year as bad ( Read more... )