Buddha

Posted on February 19, 2026 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged acrylic on canvas blurred vision, Buddha painting, Cat, Fine Art, Memories, Small painting, Thoughts4 Comments

I went to art group for the first time in weeks and picked up a small, 6×4 in canvas.

I haven’t done a painting for ages, my Parkinsons is bad and looking close up is difficult because although I’m cataract free, they also cured my short sightedness and I find it hard to focus on close objects, basically closer than about a foot things get blurred. I need to get some ordinary reading glasses because the ones I’ve got are too strong.

Then I saw a tiny, gold painted, plastic Buddha. Of all the things that I could choose to paint, this seemed like the right karma. The brushes were a bit rough and not easily pointed. It was hard to see the details, but in about an hour I managed to paint him. The best thing? Someone in the group said they really liked it. So I gave it them.

In other news, I know I haven’t been here much lately. I miss my cat so much. It’s another loss I’m struggling to come to terms with. Love to you all.

Friendship

Posted on February 14, 2026 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Goodbye, Lonely, Lost, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Tuxedo cat7 Comments

He would sit by my side

Keeping me company

My heart is heavy now…

He’s gone

How do I know he loved me?

His purring voice

His kneading paws

He was my two toned friend

Walking away, a single look back

Goodbye, I’ll see you later…

(for my cat)

Farewell

Posted on February 12, 2026 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Tuxedo cat, Tired, Sad, Gone, Loss, Black and white cat, Big cat, Rest in peace, rainbow Bridge16 Comments

Farewell Woody cat
A huge chunk of my life has just passed over the rainbow bridge and it’s such a shock. He’s been quiet and sleepy for a few days so I took him to the vets. Unfortunately he was diagnosed with end stage kidney failure and they couldn’t do anything for him.
I’m in bits. He was a quirky cat who slept on the middle steps of the stairs and endangered me every time I tried to get past him. He was a big soft giant of a cat and would put his paw out when he was lying down to say hi. I will miss him very much.

Christmas cactus

Posted on February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Memory, Photography, Flower, Life, Plant, Pink, Grandmother, Christmas cactuses, underwatered2 Comments

My kitchen windowsill is covered with Christmas cactuses. I underwater them before the festive season so they are only just starting to grow individual flowers instead of lots of them.

Some of there were cuttings from my Grandmother’s plants from about 1996….? It’s amazing how they have such longevity .

A heart

Posted on February 9, 2026February 10, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Poetry, Poem, Rhyme, Cooking, Loss, Heart, remember, Pluto, Burning, coffee stained3 Comments

A heart in the bottom of my mucky mug.

Like a parchment map of old

Stained shape of hidden treasure

And a bit like Plutos bold

Heart impaled on its frosty ground

Making it’s tiny world go round

Hearts bring me cheer

Makes me remember

He once was here.

So I write a poem to remind me

While on the cooker I’m burning tea!

How do cats brains work?

Posted on February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bath, Black and white cat, Cats, igloo, Sleeping, Stairs, Steps, Trip hazard, Tuxedo cat1 Comment

This is a cat igloo, to keep my cat warm at night, it has become more of a hammock as the cat insists on sleeping on top of it! My cats all sleep in odd places, on the side of the bath, like a gymnast on the beam. Or halfway up the stairs. This is my biggest cats’ habit and since he almost fills a whole step it’s a good job he has some white fur so I can see him when I’m climbing up, or coming down stairs! He’s a real trip hazard!

Moss

Posted on February 7, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Branches, Depth of field, Focus, Life, lime green, Memory, Moss, Rain, Water, Weather, Winter2 Comments

Outside in the cold, I saw this moss on branches. The weather has been so wet this winter that I feel like I will see a fully formed Ark on the top of the local hill!

I love the acid green of the moss. And the reddish purples of the leaves on the ground. I wish the depth of field was less so the background was more blurred, but my mobile phone automatically seems to give the same values for foreground and background. There is probably a way of changing settings? I don’t know how?

Random cat

Posted on February 5, 2026 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, clones, Duplicate, Glitch, Photodirector, Photography, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

A website I used to use to create abstract images on has now changed so radically that I’ve lost my understanding of how it works. Instead of an art site it’s become much more of a portrait filtering site.

To say I’m disappointed is an understatement, it used to be far more interesting. Now it limits the options I can use and a lot of the tools are behind pay walls.

Anyway I will keep trying to get used to it again.

I’ve got a soggy nose

Posted on February 4, 2026February 4, 2026 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aches, boggy, Cold, Ill, Life, Nose, Poem, Poetry, Snotty, soggy, Tired, tissue time, Virus, yuk2 Comments

Atishoo

Tissue time!

I’ve got a runny nose

Soggy and boggy

Dripping like a tap

An open faucet

Breath limited

To one nostril

Ugh

Yuk

Mucus

Snot!

Button bowl

Posted on February 3, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bowl, Buttons, Craft, eight years ago, Friend, Glue, Life, Memories, Photo, PVA adhesive3 Comments

My friend made this 8 years ago. The buttons were placed in a bowl and glued in place with PVA adhesive. It’s clear plastic spaces have now turned white over time. A few buttons broke off the edge of it but it’s still substantially the same.

It’s in the bathroom near the window but it’s managed to last all these years. I wonder how much longer it will be around, I might give it to another friend to use as a source of buttons if it starts to deteriorate. Only time will tell.