Showing posts with label Bench Monday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bench Monday. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Danse macabre

It's a shame that the title of this so so so wonderful music should be quite so dark! We listened to it all weekend (and Prince Charming lamented Jonathan Creek for pretty much the same period of time), and no better sound-track for a weekend in the stormy, stormy mountains.



Still haven't sorted out a Flickr account for my Bench Monday efforts!


Suns with sound priorities found a nice, flat, table stone for snack- have a break, have a ...


This is the point in Tollymore where the Spinkwee and the Shimna rivers meet. Another two great forces of nature came together there as well!


But we're back home now, and..


it's time for the real business of the week...

Sunday, 2 August 2009

One day early for Bench Monday




I have not yet managed to have the right feet in the right place on the right day, but I feel a Bench Monday debut approaching! The title could be: Jojo drying dishes and stacking them on the kitchen floor until he's ready to put them away. Working quite smart* I thought. He should be in teaching...

I'm realising this weekend that all you bloggers (bloggettes, bloggesses, blogguys?) really must take your cameras everywhere, or have those new-fangled phones with cameras as well as music systems and sat nav and personal assistants and the rest.

Hence my beautifully worded post entitled French Feast remained unpenned as I forgot to find PC's camera in the midst of chopping onions, apples and mushrooms. And there was no mention of the twenty-two Americans and their stew on Wednesday for much the same reason! So tomorrow I resolve to take a camera on our exciting excursion and to complete my draft post on ducks!

On the notion of blogging per se. Now that the sheer thrill of the thing becomes more normal, and slightly less euphoric (mostly because PC gravely pointed out the level to which my obsession had risen), I do wonder what a blog is for?

Are we all so desperate for attention now that we crave the publication of something that is ours? Are we certain that others are interested in the daily jottings of our lives? Do we not recall the lengths we went to in hiding our padlocked five year diaries when we were eleven? Or is this where the post-modern individualist finds community?

PC preaching again on community this morning. Finds it elusive without "huge chunks of uninterrupted time" (inspired by our holiday read from John Ortberg). And I suppose that huge chunks of uninterrupted time are what you can find on the Internet?

Once all those dishes are dried and put back in the cupboard!

*Something, something, achievable, time something, something. I am thinking about next year's PRSD, but not smart enough obviously! Serve the teaching community right for abusing adverbs...

Time stands still

 Hello! Sending you all lots of love from Northern Ireland, where nothing much changes just as everything changes, as usual. Time has stood ...