I wish I had a cats fur coat

Posted on December 7, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cold, fur, Sleeping, sleeping bag, Snoring, Thinking, Tuxedo cat, WarmLeave a comment

He’s snug, warm, as a bug in a rug, he gets curled up in a ball and he’s happy, he snores, puts his paw over his nose, and might be in the warmest tog sleeping bag or under a heavy duvet. Cats have a luxury coat that we humans don’t. We still have hairs and hair follicles, but as we wear clothes we don’t need a fur pelt. I wonder what came first, clothes or bald patches?

Cats still find warm places to sleep though. Usually on our bed. When it gets really cold they sneak under the duvet and snuggle up. They make a fair hot water bottle. The best thing is how they can sense your mood, sometimes they seem to be mind readers!

rehearsal

Posted on December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Chilly, Cold, Freezing, Learning lines, performing, rehersal, scriptLeave a comment

It’s cold but we went out to another rehearsal of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (which spell checker changed to sickens!) tonight, we are rehearsing at a bar, hence the single gin and tonic. Hubby has got a splendid dressing gown that’s been borrowed from a local amateur dramatics group. He was wearing that and a deerstalker tonight! He has the part of Christmas Present and needs to learn his lines although he may get a scroll to read some of them from. I however need to learn my lines!

It was freezing when we set out and even chillier when we got back to the car. Hubby tried to put his script on the back seat and the door was frozen shut! We both tried opening it but the lock only unfroze when we get home. We bought a pizza on the way back to save gas on cooking (no doubt if I compared prices it would have been cheaper to cook but I was tired). Anyway that was our evening…

Snow coming?

Posted on December 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chilly, Cold, Freezing, Frost, Icy, Illness, Poem, Poetry, snow showers, Weather6 Comments

Snow showers in the North

Will the winter spring forth?

Chilling beasts bones

Ice hardened like stones

Frost and fog lingering cold

Into cracked pavements old

People coughing and spluttering

Runny noses now sniffing.

Sleet and snow are coming near

But only in coastal areas, not here

We will get mist and ice instead..

Well that’s what the weather man said…

Window open

Posted on December 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Atmosphere, central heating system, cost of living, forgetful, Heating, Hubby, Oops, Temperature, WaterLeave a comment

Brrrr. I’m sitting feeling quite cold. Our central heating system is due to be serviced but even though its a very cold day I was expecting a bit more warmth… Its been a sunny day so it helped warm up the house…. But then hubby just said ‘I’d better shut the bedroom window!’ Wait? WHAT?

He had opened it about six hours ago because it was too hot up there. So I’ve had the central heating on full blast and we have effectively been heating the whole atmosphere!!! I asked him, again, not to do this, but he’s forgetful and he likes fresh air. Tempted to shut all the heating off….. Then he said I’d better turn the hose off… Ape that’s been on for four or five hours. No doubt there are icebergs in the garden now! Grrr and Brrrr

He bought me… The Moon

Posted on December 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gift, Hubby, kind, Light, Moon, Moonlight, nightlight, Present, Sleeping, thoughtfulLeave a comment

My hubby bought me the Moon yesterday. He knows I love astronomy. It’s a light that is domed so it looks like one side of the moon. It has a remote control and goes through phases as you press one of the buttons or scrolls through them if you press the other button, slowly waxing and waning as you watch it. It’s not astronomically accurate, just a rough surface with vague craters and marès painted on it. It’s only a nightlight, I put it in the bedroom and tried to read by it but it’s just too dim. But good for getting up in the middle of the night because it’s not too bright so it won’t wake my hubby up. X

Planning meeting

Posted on December 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 4.30pm, Eleanora street, Meeting, planning application, Potbank Hotel, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Spode factory site is being considered for development by a company called Nimrod. There is a public meeting about it at the Potbank Hotel this Thursday at 4.30pm. If you live in Stoke and want to have your say please consider coming along.

Note the image is not mine.

Defence

Posted on December 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Chess, defence, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

I can’t spell Sicilian…. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was defence. I didn’t want to draw an army or war image, so I looked at chess. I don’t know how the Sicilian defence works but it seemed like a good idea. Just a felt pen drawing.

Cats, I love them

Posted on December 5, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Black cat, Cat, Grey Cat, Love, Owned, Pets, Tabby, Tortoiseshell cat, Tuxedo cat, white catLeave a comment

I am a cat person, I love them, they are graceful, independent, also beautiful. They can be extremely sweet but also very sneaky. They will get their own way if they can. They will sit and stare at you, waiting for you to relent. Waiting to be petted or fed. They can pin you down by sitting on you or your bed, so you dare not move! Sometimes they can be trained, mine come when I whistle, which is good because I think the sound of a whistle goes further than a voice can. I’ve had cats all of my adult life, or should I say, they’ve owned me!

Tuning in…

Posted on December 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carols, Choirs, Christmas, Christmas carols, Fun, Music, Mystery singers, SingingLeave a comment

I have a loud voice, and I love singing, so I’m in a couple of choirs. Tonight we were practicing our Christmas songs, mainly Carol’s for our annual singing performances. We are called the Mystery Singers and different groups of singers come together in November to practise music for the season.

We sometimes have people join who haven’t done this before and tonight as one of those occasions. I was standing next to a new singer and my friend on the other side of her encouraged her to listen to me. That would usually be fine, but tonight I was making some mistakes! I couldn’t catch the tune, I’m used to singing with louder singers and the group I was with were being drowned out a bit by the Sopranos, Tenors and Basses. Most of them already knew the songs, so I found myself trying to tune in and sing louder to make myself heard. It’s funny how you can suddenly become nervous about something you are usually capable of doing. Even so I really enjoyed the experience.

December Fushias

Posted on December 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cold snap, Colour, fushia bushes, Fushias, Garden, Gardening, Portmeirion pottery, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

Fushias in flower outside Portmeirion pottery. In December!

I took this photo today because I was amazed at how many flowers were blooming on the fushia bushes outside our local pottery. The leaves have wilted a little and I’m expecting it to be clobbered by the cold because we, are due freezing weather over the next few days. But its December, this is not normal. Its getting dark earlier every day and we have a chilly northerly wind blowing. It’s not proof of global warming, but it makes you think!

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