2019 remembered, Biggley!

Posted on November 1, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged British ceramic biennial, comic, Odd, peculiar, Staffordshire flat back ornament, Trump figureLeave a comment

I just found this Staffordshire flat back ornament I decorated at the British Ceramic biennial back in 2019.

Whoever designed it came up with a quirky idea of Trump on a boat, legs facing backwards, the symbol of the crucifix and people weeping next to it? A monkey and a possible tea chest. There is a lion as a figurehead at the front.

I don’t remember what it was meant to depict but it’s certainly a confusing image. How did he get elected? Is he running away from the world? Is he a clownish figure? Five years later I still don’t know!

Kitchen cupboard

Posted on October 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 60's, 70s, Cupboard, Kitchen, Life, Memory, Old fashioned, spin dryer, Time, vinyl4 Comments

Just saw this on Facebook, from the 60s or 70s.

We had a pale green cupboard, I think the same sort? I remember the crinkly glass in the windows. We also had a cool pantry room, I don’t remember a fridge. I’m sure I remember my Mum stuck marble patterned plastic on the cupboard to make it look better. I’m not sure it did? I think it was sticky back plastic vinyl that she used? I may be wrong. We also had a boiler and mangle and a free standing top loading spin dryer, the water collected in a bowl below it’s nozzle. It dried better than my washing machine now.

We didn’t have fitted kitchens then.

The Moon landing

Posted on October 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Apollo 11, Childhood, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2108, in living memory, Memory, Moon, SpaceLeave a comment

What historical event fascinates you the most?

It’s fantastic that in my childhood men landed on the moon, not once but several times. Using computers that barely had the memory of a pocket calculator.

The race for space started after the second world war, when Wernher Von Braun went from Germany to America to continue research into rocketry. In the meantime Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his Russian team were working on the problem in the USSR.

The teams gradually designed rockets that could travel into space. There are many books about the space race that are worth reading, telling the tale of the triumphs and tragedies that happened as the race continued. First one country took the lead then the other.

It all culminated one July day in 1969, I remember being bought downstairs to watch the landing. I hope to see people go back there.

Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Carved, Dark, Field, Halloween, Humour, Life, Pumpkin, Scary?, Short story, tealightsLeave a comment

I saw a weird thing tonight, I walked past a field and I saw, I think I saw? All the pumpkins were still in the field, but already carved. Each had a grotesque face, and light flickering within them. But the stems were still attached and no smoke or burning smells? Very odd.

Its Halloween and I felt crrreeeped out, but an hour later I quietly walked back. I had to know what was going on. It was only when I was on the path and walking in the opposite direction I saw what I’d missed before….

The sign saying

“Ready carved pumpkins, let us do the work, you take the credit” and “tealights included”.

I wished I’d gone to bed!

Prop

Posted on October 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Cheshire, Drawing, Holmes Chapel, Jodrell bank, old sketch, PropLeave a comment

#bandofsketchers prompt ‘prop’ from a couple of weeks ago.

Old drawing of Jodrell Bank radio telescope, takes tons of metal to prop the dish up….previously used for a different band of sketchers prompt ‘holiday ‘ but it seemed appropriate. Cheshire, near Holmes Chapel,

Baited breath

Posted on October 30, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Billions, bipartisan, Caring, Election, let's be friends, Life, Poem, Poetry, selfish, Sharing4 Comments

He said that, she said the opposite

People scowl

Cats and dogs growl

It’s all “their” fault

They cause guilt

We want more money

For billionaires…. Funny

Why care for others?

Let’s be selfish, like brothers

Cain and Abel?

It comes down to a pottage mess

And everyone feels duress

But we wait with baited breath

In hope there will be no deaths.

An end to conflict

Restore your peace.

Let’s be friends!

Playing

Posted on October 29, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged digital collage, flip, incollage app, Light, Pattern, Photo, rotate, Sunset, symmetrical, ViewLeave a comment

Woven sunsets. Duplicated, symmetrical, flipped and rotated in the Incollage app on my phone. It’s hard to know when to stop. But it’s oddly satisfying to play with patterns.

I have a tenancy to create a lot of these, I guess I’m “pushing the envelope” a bit, but only certain patterns with minimal details work X

Been too ill to blog

Posted on October 29, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aches, Blog, Bug, Ill, Poe, Poetry, Poorly, Recovery, stomach, Time, Tired1 Comment

The last few days were horrible.

A stomach bug got me.

Hurt me and exhausted me.

I am so glad I’m suddenly feeling better.

Been asleep most of the last two days.

So wish me luck

Send me hope

To recover fully,

Soon.

Turn Bug into Blog

Cat sculpture

Posted on October 29, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, bought for myself, Cat, Collection, Favourite, gifts, Sculpture, sphinx, Stretch, white catLeave a comment

I have so many cat ornaments dotted round the house. Some were gifts others I bought for myself. This is not a good photo of this white cat, but I like the way it’s legs are stretched out like a lion, or a sphinx. If I decided to get rid of some of my cats this is definitely one I would keep.

Give a woman a chance

Posted on October 29, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged History, Learning, Life, mysogenistic, Politics, president, Prime minister, Team, WomenLeave a comment

Somewhere in the world a young woman looks at the Earth and sees what? The fact that over the decades women have risen to the heights of politics. Prime ministers and Presidents. Some have done better than others. It does after all depend on what their politics are and what the team ability to govern is like.

That young woman may not be interested in politics, it may be boring, it may be too dominated by men. But she should have a chance to learn and decide if she wants to get involved

Unfortunately there is a lot of mysogenistic behaviour in the world. I hope if she wants to, she can be involved.

Mallaband-Brown

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