Friday, March 04, 2022
Letter "I" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "I." A Favorite. "I"nsect. Reflections.
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Starts with "I": Isle of Man. About one fourth of my blood line is from the Isle of Man, land where the cats with no tails are from (Manx), and the people are called Manx. We visited in September of 2007.
The Isle of Man isn't a country so I can't put it on my list of countries we've visited. It is a self-governing British 'Crown dependency,' not a country. (Wikipedia link) It is located off the coast of Britain. Though there is a ferry that goes there, we flew. My Mom's side-grandfather's family came from the Isle of Man. We visited it in September 2007 (prior blog posts).
The main thing we did in the Isle of Man was to go out North and South from Douglas, the capital city in the middle, where we stayed up to the north by train and then go to the south end via bus. Lots of site seeing. We did see evidence of the Corkhill family having been there. One lady at the Information center in Douglas informed us that her maiden name was Corkhill.
A Favorite: A Fairy Bridge, and Fairy Garden are on the road to the airport from Douglas. It is customary to say hello and goodbye to the Fairy as you pass. That brings good luck.
You can stop there to post a letter to the Fairy. Just leave it in his garden. Chances are if the letter contains a wish, the Fairy will make it come true.
Tom's choice, "Insect": What's in the dustpan? These are the "see no bugs" of the Insect Variety "I don't see no bugs".
This is the first time I had seen them, the other night. Some of my meds I missed earlier and then were too close to bedtime ones. So I opted to take them in the middle of the night when I was up for the little room.
In preparation I made four half-soda-cracker pieces spread with PeanutButter and wrapped them up in a piece of paper towel. After taking my meds I left the paper towel on the vanity and went back to sleep.
In the morning when I came to wash up I saw many little, tiny brown bugs swarming on the paper towel. They were on the underside of the towel also so I sprayed everything to the left of the sink.
Soon I brushed them all up. You are seeing the dustpan with some of the bugs and at the back is some fingernail clippings.
Moral of the story is "If you want to see the bugs of the 'I don't see no bugs' variety just leave a piece of sweet sticky paper towel on a flat place." Then soon the place will be swarming with those little Insects.
A Lagniappe and Reflection(??): This was yesterday's Z I G G Y cartoon. It doesn't make sense to me. Especially because I can't 'see' the purpose and time factor into a comic situation. If you see please tell me why this is funny (besides being wierd) and help me with time and hurry fitting in.
BTW, Mrs. Jim. tried also but she didn't really make things sound better.
Lagniappe No. 2: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "I":
Where Times
Iceland Once on a Princess cruise from NYC to the U.K.
India Once on a cruise from Dubia to Cape Town
Ireland Five
Isle of Man, technically is not a country (see above). Once in 2007 while visiting our kids who lived in London at that time
Israel Once in 1980
Italy. Five
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The Fine print stuff:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- Click Here for all countries I've visited.
- Click Here for all countries of the world.
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I AM PLANNING TO GO ON "SABATICAL" STATUS, IF SO WONT BE HERE NEXT WEEK.
COULD LAST UNTIL APRIL !!!
Labels: Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Isle of Man, June Bug, June Bug 1, Reflections
