Missing you

Posted on September 20, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged antibiotics, Foot, Infection, Life, Lonely, Me, Memory, Missing, Thinking, Toe, WordPress, WorldLeave a comment

The world beckons but I am not well enough to go out into it. My infected foot continues to be a pain. Literally. I’m finding it harder to walk in the house, let alone outside and I know I’m not doing enough exercise.

I’m on another lot of antibiotics which I hope will be improve things soon. My main problem is SHOES, my toe hurts when I put them on so I’m struggling with an open toed pair of tatty slippers, not really wearable outside the house. Although I had to go to the doctors in them, I was embarrassed to wear them.

So, I’m not feeling my best and I’ve missed coming here the last few days. Finding other things to do because I don’t know what to write about. Moaning about manky toes isn’t the best is it?

Yes I am looking for sympathy!

Blueberries

Posted on September 14, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blueberries, crop poem, Food, Gardening, life collection, Mug, Plant, Poetry, summer colour3 Comments

A small collection

Grown in my own garden

A thin layer of goodness

In a mug.

What a tiny crop

But each one was perfection

But the tiny ones fell off

Due to my inattention.

I Robot

Posted on September 13, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged AI, Computer, Film, I Robot, Issac Asimov, robots, school library, Sci fi, three lawsLeave a comment

I’m just rewatching the film I Robot for about the fifth time. I remember watching it when it first came out as I’d read the Issac Asimov book that the film is based on when I was a teenager. I read a lot of his other books too. For example the Rest of the Robots. There are several books about Robots but other interesting ideas too.

They were written several decades ago so they are quite anachronistic (this was the era of Flash Gordon and Sci fi anthologies like Amazing Stories). There’s lots to read out there if you can obtain copies although someay have gone out of print. I was always borrowing them from the school library.

I remember being impressed by the three laws of Robotics. To paraphrase , A robot cannot cause harm to a human. A robot must obey the orders of humans unless they cause harm to humans and lastly a robot must save itself unless that would cause harm to a human….

With all the discussions about AI I think that the three laws should apply to computers too…. Hopefully it’s already included in programming?

Sunrise

Posted on September 11, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Awake, Colours, Dawn, Green, Morning, Night, Orange, Pink, Purple, Silhouette, Sunrise1 Comment

Silhouetted by the sky, the untidy buildings are disguised by the brilliance of the colours above them. I didn’t get out in time for the deep pink colour that had glared out five minutes before. But the orange and purples made me smile.

This shimmering scene may ported rain, it is forecast. Pale ochre feilds in the distance are starting to bleed green shoots through their dusty surfaces.

I don’t normally get up early enough to see the dawn, but this time I’d been awake all night… I’m glad I saw it.

Smug or smarmy?

Posted on September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 Posted in Uncategorized, MemoriesTagged definition, Dictionary, Mug, pleased with yourself, salami, smarmy, smug, Thinking, Words1 Comment

I looked up both words to find images on the free image search here. Smug (feeling very pleased with yourself, but in a selfish sort of way) came up with a picture of a mug. Smarmy (pleased with yourself whilst not thinking much of others) came up with salami sandwiches.

I’m tempted to post a dictionary description for both these words as I know I probably haven’t got them right, but I’ll leave that to you. I just enjoy using interesting and different words.

Sweet potato

Posted on September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Food, Life, Cooking, Curry, Ideas, Potato, Baked, sweet potato, savory, mash2 Comments

I didn’t realise how tasty these tubers were. We always ate ordinary jacket potato’s and boiled or mashed ones, so it was a bit of a change.

But then someone suggested trying them because they have less carbohydrates and they also have fibre. Good if you have diabetes, and reduces sugar intake

They also go really well in curries. So if you haven’t tried them? See what you think. They get my vote. Easy to cook and really tasty.

Green eyes

Posted on September 6, 2026 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, boop, Cat, Eyes, Life, Love, olive green, Poem, Poetry, Purring, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Like olives

Shining ovals

Stare out at me

Boop

Purring…

Touch noses

Then a pounce

Onto the floor

Off on an adventure

Back later

For more

Hero

Posted on September 3, 2026 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Bronze, Digital drawing, Doodle, Greek god, Hero, Imagine, Sketching3 Comments

Doing some digital drawing in Artrage. Since there is a new film out about the trojan horse and it was on my mind I decided to try and draw a Greek hero. It’s meant to look metallic, like a bronze bust. It certainly feels illustrationish. Pure imagination. On another thought. I wonder if I draw left handed profiles because I’m right handed (but right handed three quarter faces.?)

AI thoughts

Posted on September 1, 2026 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged AI, algorithms, Art, computer learning, Learning, Opinion, plagiarism, real, Thinking, uncanny valley1 Comment

The question of AI came up in an art group I am part of. I wrote this as a suggestion :

When you think People using photoshop and other illustrative tools to create cartoons and images these tools are quite recent. If AI is used for that purpose then it’s probably OK. Artists also change original art, for example surreal changes to the Mona Lisa by Salvador Dali. What I am concerned about is people taking art and altering it and passing it off as their own. Plagiarism is not OK. As long as that doesn’t happen I can see a place for it. Thinking about the shock of the new book I can see we could be on the edge of a revolution like the impressionists and the changes they unleashed
I think things like extra fingers and and anatomically incorrect bodies take us into the so called uncanny valley. But perhaps artists can use this to our advantage. Creativity boosting AI imagery if we are lucky?

A neighbours cat

Posted on August 30, 2026August 30, 2026 Posted in Uncategorized, Cat, MemoriesTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cheeky, dislike, Ginger, My cat, Neighbours, orange cat, Sitting, yowling3 Comments

Seems to be moving in. I turned round yesterday and it was on the arm of the chair, she keeps coming in and stealing my cats food.

The two of them have yowling matches, hurling insults at each other.

I’m sure the cat is from about 3 or 4 doors up and I don’t want to encourage it as they might get annoyed.

It’s just come in again, I will have to go and shoo it out again.