Petunias

Posted on July 21, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Hanging basket, Life, Plant, Summer, summer is icumen inLeave a comment

Flowers everywhere. I love these deep pink petunias. It’s a close up of one of my hanging baskets. When the sun shines they seem to glow.

The head in the background is a ceramic one I made about 30 years ago. It’s got a few flowers trailing from it that managed to survive the winter.

There is an ancient song from the 14th century I think?

Sumer is icumen in,
Loude sing cuckou!
Groweth seed and bloweth meed,
And springth the wode now.
Sing cuckou!

Ewe bleteth after lamb,
Loweth after calve cow,
Bulloc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Merye sing cuckou!
Cuckou, cuckou,
Wel singest thou cuckou:
Ne swik thou never now!

We sing this at choir practice (with slightly less difficult wording).

Home!

Posted on July 21, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged antibiotics, Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, Found, Home, Missing, Safe, Tuxedo cat, vetsLeave a comment

After another sleepless night I got up and tried calling my cat again. I whistled and shouted but nothing. I had been concerned because when I saw him on Thursday night his chin looked strange and slightly swollen. I had decided to take him to the vets but now it was two days later and him going missing made this impossible.

A woman had contacted me to say she was his previous owner. She had not abandoned him but he had gone astray and although they had searched for months after leaving they had not found him. It was only when I put a missing post on Facebook about him that she spotted him and realised it was her old cat. With her and her husband’s help we managed to walk over rough ground round the backs of houses and flats. It was actually this lady who spotted the cat in a little hutch in a back garden. There was a bowl of water and some food nearby. When we called to him “our” cat came out but was very lethargic and just sat staring at us. It was clearly our (both of us) cat. At that point another neighbour came round the corner and climbed the fence to get the cat. It leapt over the fence and scurried off and into my garden through the hedge.

Off I went to try and catch him. The woman and her husband followed and together we got the cat into a cat carrier. I told them I would take him to the vets as he was looking really poorly. We all agreed that he should stay with me as I’d been looking after him for the last 6 years but I realised she was really upset to part with him again. I don’t think I would have been able to find him without her and her husbands help.

Eventually I made an emergency vets appointment. The vet saw he had an abscess in his jaw and gave my cat a shot of long lasting antibiotics. I also have painkiller liquid to give him. Now it’s just a case of keeping him in for a while. At the moment he’s fast asleep!…

Ice-cream

Posted on July 20, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged comfort eating, Comfort food, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2005, Ice cream, Taste, Varieties4 Comments

What’s your go-to comfort food?

Just lately I could have eaten ice-cream for breakfast, dinner and tea. That’s not good. It’s the only thing I feel comfortable eating!

I like pizza, lasagne, Thai green curry, masala, sushi, fish and chips, and lots of other things. But when it’s getting hot I like ice-cream, specifically the adult sort with lots of flavour combinations. Icelandic berries, peppermint and coffee, mango fizz, (not salted caramel).

I’m happy to just eat chocolate ice-cream as long as its not too sweet. I’d try different flavours. There is apparently an ice-cream parlor in London that sells odd ones, like piccalilli, vinegar, baked beans, coffee, jaffa cake. It sounds bizarre but they even have soy sauce flavour.

I’m thinking of going to the freezer now for a small tub of the stuff!

Waiting

Posted on July 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gone, Lost, Missing, Poem, Poetry, preoccupied, strayed, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He’s still not home

I’ve been out and looked

Fed up and sad

I feel so bad.

Where has he gone?

I’ve called and looked

Rang up the vets

I’m going mad

Where has he gone

He’s gone astray

My heart will break

Please bring him back

I hope and pray

Missing cat

Posted on July 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gone, Lost, Missing cat, Sad, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat, where is he, Worried3 Comments

My cat has gone missing. He’s a large cat with a distinctive smudge on his nose. He might have got shut in somewhere if he’s found a place to sleep in the shade. I’ve looked round the garden, round the back of the house. I’ve knocked on neighbours doors. I’ve been down to the pdsa but they haven’t had him handed in. I rang the local vets, but they are closed till Monday so I rang their emergency vets but they are in Nantwich. He was abandoned by his previous owners who would not speak to the cats protection league so I was never able to get his microchip changed over. He’s a very loving cat, very big, he might have gone up to someone. All I can hope is he might be asleep somewhere because of the heat. But then he comes in for a drink and food? I don’t know what to do. Posted to Facebook.

Odd bedfellows

Posted on July 19, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged 3d printed dinosaur, 7 years ago, Cat, cat jelly mould, Dinosaur, night lite, Photo, TimeLeave a comment

Cat jelly mould, dinosaur night lite. The dinosaur dropped on the floor and split. Unfortunately it had to go because I couldn’t glue it back together.

I’ve used the jelly mould to make a few jellies, but it was hard to use because it doesn’t like to stay upside down without propping up. It hangs on the side of the fridge now.

I just think it made an interesting photo. And although they are strange bedfellows they are both plastic and animal shaped. So I guess they go together.

Floral

Posted on July 19, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Design, Floral, Flower, Life, Pattern, Photodirector app, sketchbook app, symmetricalLeave a comment

Taking a petal from my flower photos earlier. I decided to use my sketchbook app to try and create a floral pattern. The symmetry tool was used to create a nine sectioned flower. Then I coloured it in with symmetry and non symmetry. Finally I put this through a scenery filter in my Photodirector app. Not AI but definitely digital.

My back yard

Posted on July 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bizzy lizzies, Flowers, Fushias, garde, Hanging baskets, n, Petunia, Sunshine, Yard2 Comments

A small space crammed with flowers. My sister and a friend helped me hang the baskets and cut back a lot of overhanging ivy that was shading the yard.

The main garden is quite overgrown with trees, but this is overgrown with an abundance of flowers. My plants have not needed to be watered too much because of all the rain, but now the sun’s arrived it’s glorious out there. No room for me. I keep tripping up on pots and the watering can, I admit I have to water with a hose as I cannot lift the weight of the can. I’m glad I’ve got a stick.

I often see mad gardens on TV shows so I like to try and emulate them.

And my apple tree which was behind me when I took these photos? It’s covered in big apples!

Sunlight

Posted on July 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Apple, carbon footprint, CCTV, Cherry, Eucalyptus, Fruit trees, Garden, Gardening, plum, Trees, WalnutLeave a comment

Sun shining through the kitchen window. My cctv camera seems to be being affected by the brightness of the low sun. All the colour is washed out. It looks like a black and white photo. You can see how overgrown it is. We really did create a wood by the side of the house. Cherry, walnut, eucalyptus, plum, apple, and other trees were planted over twenty years ago. They have grown large and healthy. It’s one way of mitigating my carbon footprint I guess.

Almost bedtime

Posted on July 18, 2024July 18, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Day, Heart, Insomnia, Loss, Love, Night, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Sleep, Sunlight, Thoughts, WordsLeave a comment

The nights are getting longer

The days slightly shorter

It’s almost bedtime

But I’m hot

My heart aches, my mind too

So I’ll sit and watch TV a bit

No sensible thoughts in my mind

Just watching the nights decline

Into a slow dawn.

Maybe the sun will shine bright

In the morning after this night.

I don’t know

Time goes slow

When you’re alone

With the pain of loss.

Mallaband-Brown

Author: artbychristinemallabandbrown