Manx History Project, and a wedding anniversary.

[curiouswombat]

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

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[spikesgirl58]

It's hard to believe that summer is nearly over. It seems like it flew!

[curiouswombat]

It really does seem to have flown by - the evenings are drawing in already, although we should get about another month of pleasantly sunny weather.

[spikesgirl58]

I haven't really started seeing it at night yet, but with our fires, everything is weird.

[wiseheart]

Sounds like a fun couple of days!
Congratulations to the happy couple - who'd have thought that a year has gone by already!

[curiouswombat]

They have been nice days :)

It just really occurred to me that it was a hole year about a week ago!

[kazzy_cee]

I do think you have to be careful downsizing - you don’t want to loose too many things (especially beloved furniture). We lost the equivalent of one room and the garage (which I do miss!).

[curiouswombat]

I think they will have to completely rethink their furniture - their current house is a 3 story Victorian Terrace with storage in the basement and a garage. The new one is a 2 bedroom bungalow with a small sitting room, a conservatory about the size of ours, and a kitchen with room for a table and chairs.

It does have a medium sized garage, and a nice sized garden (they only have a tiny patch at the front in the current house and a small yard that is just big enough to put the bin in at their current one). I think the garden really attracted my sister - that and the fact that it won't be easy for lots of extended family to land on them!

[desdemonaspace]

'Why would that gentleman say they hung onto all their oil lamps even when they got electric lighting?'

In case of loss of power? Seems like a sensible plan.

Happy Anniversary to D-d and her NYM!!! Hope they have a wonderful day and a safe and healthy year, and many many years to come!

I still have a volume of poetry that first husband and I got for our paper anniversary: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Delightful!

[curiouswombat]

Definitely loss of power - he farmed land next to the farm of my great uncle and I could confirm that right up to the 1990s the power supply could be very temperamental in the winter!

What a good gift - the selection of paper goods was my mother's usual gift for a 1st anniversary, but a book would have been a lovely idea.

I will pass on your good wishes.

[epiphyta]

Oh my goodness, has it been a year already? *boggles* Congratulations to them!

[curiouswombat]

It only really hit me about a week ago!