New paintings and regular art updates.
Today, after years I finally wrote down a lot of the bad things that have happened to me over the years. I’ve held it deep down and rarely shared it because, stiff upper lip, you just get on with it. People call me stoic, well I have been like this for over 60 years. I’m only saying now because I need to prove it to someone. Taken all day to write it all down. Do I feel better? Don’t know. I think I’ve still got some hope left.
Another experimental piece. There were 6 bottles of new iridescent acrylic paint at art group. Each bottle had a little cap inside the lid to stop the paint leaking out. They all had paint adhering under the caps so I used them to create dots of colour. The central yellow circle was created first using all the paint under the cap swirled round in the surface of the canvas. Each other dot only used the paint under the caps and making an uneven surface. The extra patterns were brushed on afterwards.
I see a central sun serrounded by a white path, that in turn is circled by trees then flowers. Or a kaleidoscope.
I’ve struggled with this for 2 years. I do a bit and get fed up. I’m making the design up and it’s fiddly, my hands shake and it’s hard to get it right. The base of the pot curve is not right. Maybe I’ll get it finished once this hot spell of weather is over? So it’s a WIP.
I’m trying hard to keep my hanging baskets alive. They are on a shady fence which is good, but one in particular is in full sun and is getting rather crispy. Also I bought a few small extra plants but they outgrew their pots so a friend and her son came over to help today to repot them into containers. Some of them were a bit wonky so I tried to straighten them up. That was hard work. Even putting the bin out exhausts me.
Anyway the photo is of one of them. Bought just over a month ago from a small farm and really filled out. I’m using washing up water and some bottles of water to keep them going. Might rain next week… Cropped off the dried out bits.
I do this every year, but this year was a bit much, I will see what happens next year x
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?
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.
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 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.
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
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.
Mallaband-Brown