Bread

Posted on July 18, 2026July 19, 2026 Posted in UncategorizedTagged airfryer, Baking, Bread, Cookery, Eating, Food, Friend, Photos, Recipe, recording3 Comments

My friend keeps sending me photos of bread he has made in his airfryer… I’m sure he’s proud of it, but I’m not quite sure why he’s sent me eight??? Pictures of it.. It’s getting to be like manna from heaven. Maybe I should get the recipe?

Handle

Posted on July 17, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged assistance, Bed, bed clothes, bed handle, handrail, Help, rumpled, Safety, Sleeping, Stairs, Tired3 Comments

I don’t like to admit it but I’ve had to get a handle for my bed to help me lower myself in and pull myself up and out of bed. It’s meant the bed clothes end up a bit rumpled as it’s hard to tuck them in. I don’t have as much strength in my arms as I used to have. I also find myself still using the sheets to hang onto if I want to turn over when I’m in bed, you have to be double jointed to grab the handle in some positions. At least I’ve stopped feeling like I’m going to slide out of bed like I did before. I other news I got a second stair handrail so I feel a lot safer going up and down stairs.

I want cold!

Posted on July 16, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged celcius, Chill, Climate, Cold, Earth, Heat, heatwave, Life, Rain, Snow, Tired, Weather, wildfires, Winter3 Comments

Winter, snow, rain

Memory of snow

Sitting here, I wish for a chill in the air. Yesterday was St Swithens day. They say if it rains during the day it will rain for another 40 days and nights… No chance of that…

The UK is suffering it’s 3rd heatwave in a couple of months and I’ve not been able to do anything. Temperatures have been over 35 degrees Celcius in some places. The world is definitely heating and water reservoirs are depleted.

Meanwhile we have politicians both here (conservatives and reform) and in the USA who want us to “drill baby drill”, seeing only short term gain and a lack of understanding of climate science. Now smoke from wildfires in Canada drifts on the wind southwards and the USA have been complaining!

Maybe hell will be on Earth after all, but the majority of the population do not deserve to suffer it.

Air fresheners

Posted on July 14, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Air fresheners, Chemicals, Life, Money, Pollution, sales, sneezing, unregulated2 Comments

Air fresheners make me sneeze. I keep seeing adverts for them so I looked it up online. Not good:

Air fresheners typically contain a complex, unregulated mixture of synthetic chemicals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Common ingredients include formaldehyde, phthalates (which act as hormone disruptors), petroleum distillates, and benzene derivatives. These are often dissolved in solvents like isopropyl alcohol to disperse the scent.

There is more, but I didn’t want to use too much of this quotation from Google.

Just think of your health before you spend your money.

Waiting

Posted on July 13, 2026July 13, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Time, Waiting, Life, Thinking, Fear, Worry, Anxiety, Procrastination, catastrophe, wrong1 Comment

I feel like I’m waiting

Watching out

For something to happen

A buzzing, fizzing, aching

Feeling unable to settle

Like the house will fall down

Or a comet will hit

Fires will strike

Things will crash

So I sit

Nerves twisting my gut

Agony and anxiety

Catastrophising

Waiting for my jenga life

To fall..

Procrastinating

Wildfires

Posted on July 12, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Climate change, climate deniers, Conwy, Fire, Forest, Moors, Saddleworth, Wales, wildfires2 Comments

At the moment there are 19 active wildfires in the UK. They have been caused by three successive heatwaves in the UK since May.

Moorland near Glossop in Derbyshire is on fire. There is another caused by kids setting off fireworks I think. Their friend had drowned in a lake after getting into difficulties, and the idea was to remember him?

Also a forest fire in Conwy, Wales. A fire on Saddleworth Moor near Rochdale. Another on the Hampshire-Surrey border.

There are more massive fires in Southern Spain where several people have been killed or injured, and also in France and Greece.

So those climate change deniers have a lot to answer for.

Damsons

Posted on July 11, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art group, cut down, Damsons, destroyed, Gardening, Hedge, Life, Plants, Walnut1 Comment

What fruit there is is ripening in this excessive heat but will possibly be spoilt by next Wednesday when I see it again, it’s at the craft group I go to, either that or it will have been eaten by hungry birds.

In other news my neighbour down the road owns a computer shop. A couple of years ago they bought the land to the side of my garden and now they are in the process of building a new office. So because my old hedge was growing over the boundary line they have cut it down and some of my Walnut tree branches too. I think they thought they were doing me a favour but I’m worried someone could get in the garden and break into my sheds (I have been burgled before), and Walnuts can weep until they die. With that and metallic fencing they are putting up it will feel more like a prison than a garden.

Fan time

Posted on July 10, 2026July 10, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Poetry, Weather, Poem, Life, Tired, Hot, Electricity, Fan, heatwave, exhaustionLeave a comment

Third heatwave in a few weeks

I’m exhausted

Too hot

Found a small fan.

But I wait for the room

To get hot

Before I switch it on.

Then bliss as cool air

Sweeps over me

But don’t want to use

Too much electricity…

Orange cat

Posted on July 8, 2026 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cat, impressionistic, Life, line work, orange cat, Painting, Texture, toothbrush1 Comment

Playing with line, used a toothbrush for the black outlines. Acrylic on canvas. Done at art group today. I gave it to a friend as it reminded her of her cat Marmalade. X

In situ

Posted on July 6, 2026 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Criccieth Castle, decor, dining room, Fine Art, Home, in situ, Life, Painting6 Comments

Here is my painting, finally finished and hanging in my friends house. It’s colours really match the decor.. I’m so pleased I painted this it took ages but it works well. I can still paint!