Panto scenery? Oh yes it is!

Posted on February 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on board, Art, Design, Fun, Life, Mural, Panto, Pantomime, Props, Scenery, scenery painting, Stage setsLeave a comment

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Now the panto is over I can share the scenery paintings I did. The market scene was painted with the help of John who started it, (he’s one of the stage cew) and he helped me with the sky on the desert scene. The flat figure came back out of the “mangle” after the character playing a policeman crawled through it in search of Aladdin. I also added clothes to the front of the “washing machine”, the man playing a second policeman crawled into it, and after a few seconds a child climbed out, as if shrunken, but with a full sized uniform!

I had a lot of fun doing these, and I may be painting a mural in Wales now I’ve finished doing this.

Sprigs of spring?

Posted on February 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cold, Colours, Environment, Flora, Flowers, Grey, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, School, Spring, WinterLeave a comment

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In months my garden

will be aflower,

floral fancies,

blooming anew.

But sadly now

the sight is of grey hue.

Cold sprigs of twigs

leaden coloured,

deadened stems.

Give them some sun,

some warmth

some food?

Then they will improve their mood.

I wait and cry

with many a sigh,

Looking around

For colour on the ground.

Daffodils and Tulips

Crocus and Snowdrops.

Then Bluebells and Violets,

will stir the air,

colours will flare!

Brighten the world,

set bees abuzz,

and waken my love,

of nature.

Mad email

Posted on February 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Difficult to read, Email, Peculiar email, Text, Vertical line, Why?Leave a comment

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One of my emails that has had several replies has shrunk to a long thin vertical line of text!?

Why is it doing this? It gradually thins down with each section till this final line… I mean it’s interesting, but very difficult to read? I guess it’s something to do with formatting text and I don’t know how to get it to revert back to normal…. Any ideas?

My cat watching TV

Posted on February 23, 2020 Posted in CatTagged Animals, Cat, Life, Look, Looking, Programme, Spy cameras on TV, TV, Watching, Wildlife programmeLeave a comment

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My cat likes watching animals on TV. I was watching a nature programme with spy cameras, they were built to look like animals so that they could film various creatures. There was a spy owl that was flying over a pack of wolves and my cat started watching it. She continued to watch till the end of the programme….

She is the only one of about eight cats that we have had over the years that has shown any interest in TV.

She just stares, sometimes if there is a chase she quickly glances at the animal doing the chasing, but to be honest the pictures are edited together so fast that it must not be coherent to a cat who can’t follow the narration! Anyway she’s gone again now. People on TV!

Quick walk by the canal

Posted on February 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Barlaston, Canal, Food, Humour, Life, Lunch, Plume of feathers pub, Staffordshire, Tires, Trent and mersey canal, Walk, WeatherLeave a comment

Couple of quick photos by the Trent and Mersey canal at Barlaston. We’d had lunch at the Plume of Feathers pub and decided to have a little walk. We didn’t go far though. The canal was very full. Only a couple of inches below the level of the towpath. Also, although it was sunny, the wind was blowing hard and it was very cold. I wish I’d put a thick jumper on. In any case I was very tired after the food and the hard work yesterday and this morning. On the way to the pub we drove through a couple of very dee and wide puddles across two thirds of the road. Three hours later, on our way home, the water had reduced. Possibly because it was splashed out or drained away. I hope we get some better weather soon, but the forecast is for snow tomorrow!

That’s it for another year!

Posted on February 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Comedy, Drama, Fun, Life, Panto, Pantomime, Penkhull, Penkhull Village Hall, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Theatre, Tidying upLeave a comment

Everything’s cleared up and tidied away….. Chairs stacked and put away, empty glasses and plastic beakers cleaned and disposed of. All the sweet wrappers and crisp packets that had been left on the floor were cleared up last night. The changing rooms (four garden gazebos) were taken down today, clothes will be washed and the ones that were rented will go back to their owners. At ten thirty last night the people we had hired the mikes off came to collect them, only to be told they would have to wait a quarter of an hour because we were doing an encore!

Comments made include our panto was better than the professional one held in the city centre at Christmas, and that out cast were good. The only complaint we got was that the radio mikes kept dropping out. The panto has been filmed so hopefully I can get a copy.

It was worth all the months of hard work. If you want to see one of the sketches we did look up “if I were not upon the stage” on YouTube. It’s not our version but gives you an idea of what we did.

Two pantos in one day!?

Posted on February 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Busy Saturday, Drawings, Friends, Fun, Matinée, Panto, Pantomime, SketchesLeave a comment

So instead of taking photos I decided to draw members of the cast. Less issues over copyright when sharing here because no filming or videos are allowed of the actual panto and I don’t like sharing people’s pictures randomly.

I’m slightly dreading doing two performances and remembering my lines. At least it’s finished today so I can have a rest tomorrow. Then I will get back to blogging here, which I have been neglecting this week.