Quiet day

Posted on August 3, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gardening, Life, Neighbours, next door but one, Quiet day, Tablets, Time, Tired, WeedsLeave a comment

Today was quite a quiet day. After yesterday I’m glad. I did have someone knock on the door asking if my garden gate led down an entry to the back of the next door houses. They had bought a house two doors up and wanted to get round the back?

I had to explain the entry was further down but since the shop on the corner has bought the land where the alley was you now have to go round into the next street and walk along a narrow path by the side of a garage to get round.

I have also been waiting for some medicine so I was pleased to get a text message to say it was ready I started to get ready to go out I realised it was 4.25 pm and they shut at 4.30 pm so I will have to wait until Monday.

Tomorrow might be more interesting. Fingers crossed.

Cat painting

Posted on August 2, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cat lady, childless, Fine Art, large painting, Life, Painting, tabby cat2 Comments

It’s big, about 4 x 5ft? Been on my wall since I painted it around 30 years ago. So I’ve been a crazy cat lady for several decades! I’m sure there are lots of us about. I’ve never been insulted by being a childless cat lady and I’m not starting now. Whatever you look after, be it child or relative or animal your life should be full of caring and supporting those objects of your love. To have hateful words used against you is pathetic.

Peeling paint

Posted on August 2, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Life, Paint, Peeling paint, Possible painting, Restore, Time, weathering, WoodLeave a comment

Old building in Stoke Town centre. The paint and layers of wood have been deteriorating for years. It’s like some fancy abstract painting. As the weather attacks the surface, more of the lifts. Part of me would like to see it in good repair, but my artistic side sees it as a painting.

Helped pay at the till

Posted on August 1, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2017, generosity, Help, random act of kindness, Support, ThinkingLeave a comment

Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone.

Whether someone is a few pence, or a couple of pounds short when they are shopping I don’t mind offering to help out.

Why not? They might be short on funds, or just unable to pay because of a computer problem. Maybe they chose the same as normal but prices have increased because of inflation? Let’s face it, life is getting harder for everyone.

I think what goes around comes around and the world needs a little more generosity. You have to be aware of problems though, I think I have to be sensible, but that shouldn’t stop me or anyone else using a random act of kindness to help others.

Sunlight

Posted on August 1, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged container, Cutlery, Dotty, Life, ordinary, Pattern, Photo, Spotty, Sunlight, SunshineLeave a comment

Sunlight through a cutlery container. I duplicated it to make it look like a spotty butterfly. It’s interesting to find abstract images from ordinary household objects.

His last match?

Posted on August 1, 2024August 2, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Andy Murray, Dan Evans, doubles, medals, Olympic champion, Olympics, quarter finals, retiring, Tennis, TimeLeave a comment

In the Olympics tonight Andy Murray and his partner Dan Evans were up against an American duo in the Quarter finals of the men’s doubles tennis competition.

Having won through against adversity in the previous two matches (winning after 5 match points against them and 2 match points in the following game) Murray and Edwards came through a five, two deficit in the second set to win two games back. Sadly though, and despite an almost miraculous comeback they eventually lost.

Andy Murray has been playing for years. He won the men’s singles finals at Wimbledon three times and has also previously been Olympic champion too. I think he is 37. Recently he has had back surgery and has a prosthetic hip. He had physical problems to overcome over most of his career. Perhaps this is the right time for him to finish his tennis career. But he will be sorely missed.

Short

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged AI, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2016, Description, fatish, friends creation, Hair, not really me, Short, viking2 Comments

How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?

It’s like me but not. My friend gave me glorious hair, a wry smile, intelligent eyes. I think I’ve been Vikingized!

In reality, I’m short fattish and hairy. Given to grumpy faces. My forehead is not wrinkled but I have a down turned mouth. And skin? I have enough blemishes such as moles, that I could qualify as a witch! I’d like to shrink further not vertically, but horizontally. My body let’s me down physically, shaking and twisting, uneven and unsteady.

But the outside doesn’t count, it’s what is in your mind that matters.

Interesting?

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Background, Cool, Drink, frappachino, ice cold, Interesting, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, SweetLeave a comment

Trying to make my cold drink cool?

Playing with position, am I a fool…

Place the camera low and see

What’s in the background

Line up the straw

Straight with the door

Blue white view

And green too

Outside the heat

Inside I’m seat-ed

In a cool suite

With a cold, chocolate, sweet

Drinking icy views in.

Cloudy view

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Clouds, fields, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, Landscape, Life, Mountains, TreesLeave a comment

This was what I tried to finish painting today. I wanted to paint a cloudy sky and over painted patches with a sponge to give the clouds a fluffy feel . I even tried to paint some Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds above the mountains. They look like rolling waves on the sea. It’s a tiny portion of the painting and probably not that apparent.

Anyway, acrylic on canvas. (cheap canvas, you can really see the warp and weft.)

Frappachino?

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged air conditioning?, ArtRage app, brain freeze, Chocolate, Cold, frappachino, Freezing, Rest, Shopping, Sketching, TiredLeave a comment

I went to my art group for mental wellbeing this morning and decided on the way home because the weather is sunny and burning hot. So I went shopping to save having to go out again later. While I was in the supermarket I treated myself to a chocolate frappachino? Is that what it’s called (milkshake) it was so cold I got real brain freeze! (drawn in Artrage app).

It’s about 30°C outside and I was in the car which was incredibly hot. No air conditioner so I had the windows wide open. I was so tired and overheated when I got home I’ve just come in and kicked my shoes off. Now for a rest!

Mallaband-Brown

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