Rose

Posted on December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital art, Digital drawing, Gardening, Life, Memories, Paint, Rose, Rose water, Roses, Scent, Shed, ThinkingLeave a comment

A rose, red as blood. Thorns or thornless, a joyful thing. Here is life and beauty, scent of musk, blooms that attract bees and insects. I remember the rose bush at home when I was a child. It had bright pink roses climbing up some trellis work. We used to collect the petals and try and make scented water out of them. It didn’t really work, but it was fun trying. The rose bush must have been eight or ten feet high and as wide. In the summer the scent was fantastic. I remember it was next to an old shed and the paint on the door was green and bubbling off because of the sunlight. The contrast between the fresh roses and the shed door was so interesting….

Zoom background

Posted on December 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple tree, Background, Green man, Lost in the picture, Merged, Photo, PortraitLeave a comment

I don’t know how people add backgrounds on zoom calls, but I can’t seem to do it on my pc. But it does intrigue me as sometimes the person seems to melt into the background. I’m this case my friend ended up looking a bit like a green man! I decided to add texture so he was not identifiable and also to crop off his name.

23 eggs!

Posted on December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eggs, Food, Hubby, Humour, Life, List, Meat, Shopping, Time, Torches, WritingLeave a comment

It was an offer I wasn’t going to refuse. I’ll go shopping said hubby. So I said just take one bag then you can’t buy too much.

Do you need a list? No I’ll be OK. Well don’t buy a roast chicken, just get some thighs. We don’t need a lot, just a few things.

I knew there was a problem when he carried in two huge bags of shopping. I’ve not got much space in the fridge.

He bought:

An amaryllis (we already have FOUR)

A loaf of bread (we already have one and two half used loaves).

Two torches and some batteries (to go with at least five he already has).

A bunch of flowers

A box of frozen haddock

Three tubs of olives,

A bag of spinach

A roast chicken

Beefburgers

Gammon steaks,

A beef joint

And fifteen eggs (to go with the eight he already bought yesterday).

When I asked why he had bought the eggs he said you can never have enough eggs!

Sunburst

Posted on December 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Betelguse, Blast, Creative writing, Idea, Imagined, Radiation, Supernova, Thinking, What would it be likeLeave a comment

Sunlight burst through the grey clouds, but not normal light, and from the wrong direction. Where had this blast of radiation come from? Was it just light or were there other sections of the radioactive spectrum? The blast blew the clouds away. Leaving a sparkling blue sky, only for the clouds to come roiling back seconds later. Thunder rumbled, lightning sparked overhead.

It was the supernova that had been the star Betelguse. Life had been damaged by the blast, would it, could it survive?

Brr

Posted on December 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Frozen, Landscape, Layout app, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Reindeer, Snow, WinterLeave a comment

Reflecting again

Houses climb the hill

Roses and ivy climb the walls

Snow dusted hedges

And bright shining rooves

I can almost hear

Reindeer hooves

Clambering over

Cold icy snow.

Imagine a landscape

Frozen below.

We had snow

Posted on December 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Five am, Not much, Photis, Slush...., Snow, Tired, Two inches deep, WinterLeave a comment

Five am and the sky was orange. The snow was dumped on us. Only a couple of inches, but you don’t know how disruptive that can be in a country that doesn’t get much of the white stuff in the winter.

As our street lamps change from sodium light to white led lamps I wonder if that orange glow will fade and we will get silvery white instead? The sound is deafened by the snow, everything is muffled. I think I can hear sleighbells…..

Memories of a painting

Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Bad wiring, Cat, Cloth covered wiring, Dangerous, Life, Livingroom floor, Oil on canvas, Old House, Old painting, Old wiringLeave a comment

Old painting I did a long time ago. It was painted in the living room of our old house. The floor was collapsing into the cellar and was held up by a large steel bar with two scaffolding poles holding each end. The cellar was also wet, it used to drip condensation onto the floor. I remember the wiring was bad. The flex to the lights was twisted and cloth covered. If you touched it bits would drop off. If I wanted to change a light bulb I used to put insulation tape around the wire. The bathroom was an old coal shed that had been knocked through. Our neighbour complained about a bulge on our wall so the dangerous buildings inspector came out. The bulge was OK it had been built like that. But we had to move because he warned our landlord that the property was not safe. We bought the painting with us to the new house.

Turkey curry from leftovers.

Posted on December 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Butternut squash, Cooking, Curry sauce, Food, Leftovers, Onion, Quick meal, Rogan josh sauce, Tinned tomato, TurkeyLeave a comment

I used up the leftover turkey tonight.

Ingredients :

An onion

Half a tin of tomatoes

Half a butternut squash

Chopped leftover turkey

Half a jar of Rogan josh curry sauce.

Method:

I just fried off a large onion, then added half a can of tomatoes. I put half a butternut squash (deseeded and peeled) in the microwave for a few minutes. Then I chopped it into chunks and added it to the pan. Finally I chopped the leftover turkey into it and poured over half a jar of rogan josh curry sauce. I then cooked everything on a low heat for twenty minutes to make sure everything was piping hot. Result. A tasty meal.

Seasons greetings

Posted on December 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Blooming, Life, Poem, Poetry, Seasins, Spring, Summer, Time, Weather, Winter, WorldLeave a comment

Seasons come and seasons go

Sometimes wind and gales blow

Winter comes the cold is sharp

Spring time and the singing lark.

Fills the world with sweet delight

But the spring soon takes its flight

Summer time comes round again

Sometimes hot, sometimes with rain.

Flowers bloom and butterflies flit

Through the world all brightly lit

Later days get old again

Leaves they fall in autumn rain

Waiting till the end of year

Darkness comes but no fear

Always after winter comes

spring arrived with glorious blooms.

Late presents…

Posted on December 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Christmas, Covid, Friends, Hope, Late, Late delivery, Life, Presents, Relatives, Sisters, TimeLeave a comment

I need to send some late presents. I didn’t receive my orders until a couple of days before Christmas so it was too late to catch the post to send the presents on. If things had been normal my sister would have come to collect them and taken them with her when she went to visit my other sister. But that wouldn’t work this time. I posted something to a friend well before Christmas and that took ten days to arrive. Goodness knows where it went in the meantime.

Giving presents means a lot to me, I like sharing things with people although I’m not bothered about receiving them. I usually try to fit the present to the person, but this year the things I’ve ordered are a bit more generic. Maybe next year I will be more creative. I hope things get better by then. We are living through a moment of history that cannot be helped but must be endured.

Mallaband-Brown

Author: artbychristinemallabandbrown