The web

Posted on March 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anniversary, Blog, Computers, Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, World wide WebLeave a comment

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Apparently its 30 years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide Web. The Internet had pre existed the Web.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an English engineer and computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at Oxford University and MIT.

More information can be found about him at Wikipedia

The idea of computers had been thought of from centuries ago. For instance there was a “difference engine” invented by Babbage. And then calculating machines such as the one that broke the enigma code in the second world war. Science fiction stories imagined huge single computers that could take over the world and it was up to a human (usually a man) to defeat it.

Now we have a massive Web of computers all over the world. I wonder if it will become self aware?

Silhouette

Posted on March 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawings, Patterns, Photography, Photos, Play, Silhouette2 Comments

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Sometimes it’s nice just to take a close up abstract shot of something. Shapes become more important than detail. Tiny pink petals almost look like butterflies and the straggly money plant, which is cast in shadow, raised its bulbous leaves up to the sky. The thin pale leaves of the spider plant are almost translucent in the light.

Then again you can play about with silhouettes in nature or draw dark doodles to make a pleasing composition.

Always explore, always enjoy, always create if you can.

Supporting red nose day

Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Charity, Fun, Help, Humour, Laugh, Malaria, Nose, Raise money, Red nose day, SupportLeave a comment

Red nose day is a British charity which started many years ago. They do a telethon every two years and do comic sketches and serious reports to raise money for good causes. So far they have raised over £40 million. The money is split 50/50 between the UK and other countries..

They are trying to fight malaria, end child marriage, support families in need.

The comic relief symbol is the red nose. They sell these and other merchandise to raise funds. That’s why I’m wearing mine here 😜

Got painting in open exhibition

Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brampton museum, Jupiter Blue, Life, Open exhibition, Painting4 Comments

I’m really pleased I got Jupiter Blue into a local Open exhibition at the Brampton in Newcastle-under-Lyme. I’m chuffed as it’s quite a large painting and I was half expected to only get one of the other two smaller ones I had also entered but was not successful with these. They were a pastel of Sky and Land and an abstract picture entitled Druid. I think I may work further into the second of these and make it more three dimensional.

Open exhibitions are hard to get into. They are dependant on so many different things, not least whether your work fits in with the feel of an exhibition. I have more luck some days or years than others. They also depend on the number of entries. I’ve heard of some opens taking one picture from each entrant then adding additional ones if there is enough space.

Through the trees

Posted on March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Air, Blank verse, Climate, Deserts, Environment, Forest, Jungle, Light, Poem, Poetry, Water, WoodsLeave a comment

Through the trees there is light,

Through the trees there is air,

Through the trees there is water

but without the trees there is no life

no birds, no animals

no bears, no deer,

Without trees the air gets dirty

It gets dry.

Forests and jungles are our lungs,

life evolved in the sea,

came onto the land,

And in the forests of the land

there are more bugs, animals and possibly birds

than are found in the long grass

or desert plains

or high hills and mountains.

Save the forests, save the trees, save the world ..

Ducks

Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Birds, Ducks, Fun, Life, Nature, Outside, WinterLeave a comment

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Well a duck and drake actually. Bog standard Mallard ducks, but I do think they look smart. The male (drake) has the green head and ring round his neck. The female duck has neat brown feathers bounded by white edges. These were photographed on a cold day about a month ago.

It’s soon going to be time for little ducklings to emerge from their eggs. In a few weeks time I might be taking pictures Of some of them.

Meanwhile I hope you enjoy this image of nature.

What’s happening?

Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Creative writing, Digital doodle, Fun, Humour, Shock, Short story, Surprise, Very short storyLeave a comment

sketch-1552651184350 It was a quiet autumn day and nothing much was happening. She had been out shopping and was starting to put stuff away in the fridge. Suddenly there was a huge gust of wind which rattled all the windows and blew lots of leaves along the path. It started to rain and the sky grew grey and then black. The kitchen was so dark that she had to put the light on. She thought she saw a figure outside, but when she tried to look through the window the glare from the electric light reflected back and made it impossible to see out.

She continued to put things away. Then entered the living room. She heard a knock coming from the front door, “hang on” she called, fumbling to find the light switch, ” I will be there in a sec.”

She turned the key in the door and gasped as she opened it. A very short person dressed all in black and wearing a plastic skull mask stood by her front door….

“Trick or treat!” screamed the child loudly over the sound of the gale.

Shed arrival

Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bicycles, Blogging, Garden, Life, Shed, SummerhouseLeave a comment

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This morning a shed and summerhouse we ordered arrived. I got them because they were ex display models so they cost half the price they should have. DSC_1291_optimized

I’m not sure why I wanted a summer house as well. I have this idea that I’m going to sit out in the garden in the summer and use it to paint in.

The builder is putting them up at the moment. We have also had some fencing put up because the back of the garden was getting so overgrown it had pulled the bit of fencing down that had been there for years. We intend to plant clematis and honeysuckle against it.

That’s about all I’m going to say about it. It’s a big cost. But if it means we can store and save all my husbands collection of old bicycles and stop them from rusting it’s a good idea.

Twins

Posted on March 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Humour, Life, Poem, Poetry, Twins, WritingLeave a comment

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One strong.gnorts enO

One weak.kaew enO

Arguing.gniugrA

Fighting.gnithgiF

Never knowing.gniwonk reveN

Who is best.tseb si ohW

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Identical.lacitnedI

Seperate.etarepeS

The same.emas ehT

Dalek on a train?

Posted on March 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cheddleton, Churnet Valley, Dalek, Dr Who, Froghall wharf, Life, Narrow gauge, Train, VintageLeave a comment

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A few years ago we went on a train trip at Cheddleton in Staffordshire from Cheddleton Station to Froghall Wharf along the Churnet Valley line (a preserved narrow gauge railway.

At the Cheddleton end of the line were vintage second world war cars and vehicles and people dressed in vintage clothes. Then at the other end? A Dalek from the Sci fi show Dr Who, plus a tardis and other memorabilia. To see a remote control Dalek trundling up and down the station platform made me so happy. I’ve pretty much watched the show since the 1960s. Its a pleasure to have watched it and I’m loving the new female Dr Who, Jodie Whittaker.

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