Spend more time with my cats

Posted on March 21, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1884, Fun, high jinks, Humour, Memory, Morning, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Time, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

What do you wish you could do more every day?

Get up in the morning with my cats

They are running around like bats

I mean silly rushing

Each one pushing

The boundaries of reason

But it’s the spring season

Jumping about then resting

And they’re always questing

To find a nook and cranny

To hide in like a canny

Cat, ready to pounce

Or at least flounce

Off in a huff

Which can be rough

To their friendly mate

Who’s left in a state

Of shock

After a sock

In the face with a paw

When they were calm before

Getting all het up

When they meet up

On the bed

They sort of see red

And chase

Yes that’s the case!

Hi jinks

When a claw sinks

In your nose

But it’s fun I suppose!

Phone alarm

Posted on March 19, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged alarm, Awake, Bed, Cat, cats claws, Morning, Music, Phone, Sleeping, tinkly, TiredLeave a comment

Somewhere downstairs my sisters phone alarm is going off. She must still be asleep, but the high pitched tinkling music woke me up and my cats too! I am quite a light sleeper and I have good hearing which doesn’t help. Then on this grey and tinkly morning one of my cats has decided to tunnel down the bed next to me and stick her claws in my knees in order to get a bit of love. Chin and belly rub over she leaps back out of bed. Now I’m awake so I decided to let you know. Perhaps your phone will tinkle or beep and wake you up? X Morning X

Cat on the bath

Posted on March 14, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bathroom, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Life, Poem, Poetry, splish splash, Tuxedo cat, WaterLeave a comment

Coming into the bathroom

You always want to know

What I’m doing.

Paws dip into the water

From the tap

A delicate splish splash…

Lick paw and return

To the gentle trickle

Silver sparkle

Nose wet

You saunter off..

Ginger cat

Posted on March 13, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged aacrylic on canvas, Art, Cat, courtyard, Fine Art, Flowers, ginger cat, Imagined, Life, Painting, WallLeave a comment

An imagined cat on a white wall. The plants make it feel like a courtyard. I had fun with the paint mixing different tones and colours . The cat is a ginger tabby staring out of the painting. Acrylic on canvas.

Trying to answer!

Posted on March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black cat, Consequences, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1875, finally answered the prompt, Life, superstitionLeave a comment

Are you superstitious?

I’m superstitious about some things, not walking under ladders for instance, or saluting when I see a single Magpie (only after my friend told me about doing it). In the UK black cats are lucky so I don’t worry if I see one.

I wanted to answer this prompt, but for some reason the prompt says I’ve already answered it. I’ve had to go through a couple of extra pages to get here. Should I be superstitious? I think the human brain looks for patterns. If something goes wrong after you walk under that ladder perhaps you have tempted fate? Maybe something bad will happen if you do it again? But the person up the ladder that dropped paint on you might have laughed or been really sorry. Consequently he’s not going to be superstitious about it. The lesson is learned by the victim…

Those paintings

Posted on March 11, 2024March 12, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Black and white cat, Cat, Gift, Memory, Pencil sketch, Poppies, Tortoiseshell cat, Tuxedo cat, WatercolourLeave a comment

Here they are, quickly painted. I think the date on the bottom one is 1988? I am sure they are watercolour and pencil drawings now I look closely. I’m not sure if they were a birthday or Christmas gift? It’s lovely to see work I did over 35 years ago! To think they still exist x

Old paintings

Posted on March 11, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Black and white cat, Cats, Friends photo, Life, Memory, Painting, Poppies, TimeLeave a comment

Two small, quick paintings of cats that I painted years ago. My friend sent it to me recently. Both of them have also got poppy details. I will see if I can zoom in on them to see if I can get clearer views of them. I know they are mine, but I genuinely can’t remember painting them. That makes me feel guilty, I think I should recognise all of my work. Memory frays as you get older x

Pinned down

Posted on March 10, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged bed covers, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Life, Pinned down, Sleeping, Snoring, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

A year ago my cat had pinned me down on the bed! I didn’t usually have my phone with me but on this occasion the stars aligned and as I woke up, stuck, I decided to take her photo. Nowadays she sneaks under the covers next to me. She will maybe stay still for ten minutes, sticking her claws in me as she kneads away at my leg or side. Then, I think she must overheat, she will rush out and escape. One of the other cats sleeps above the cover and gently snores. If they see each other they sometimes hiss at each other, but generally they are chilled about things.

Cats

Posted on March 9, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Humour, Life, Poem, Poetry, Shape, Sleep, Space, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Three cats on the bed

Like a Venn diagram

Each in a space

Far enough away

Not to menace

Or chase.

It’s fine for them

Keeping warm

But what shape

Do I have to make

To sleep in the space

That’s left?

Catty

Posted on March 7, 2024 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Black, Cat, Doodle, Fun, Grey, phone app, Sketching, stylus drawing, tabby cat, WhiteLeave a comment

I realised I haven’t doodled much lately. I guess I’ve been too busy and distracted. So today I drew this cat in the Artrage app on my phone. It’s meant to be a tabby cat with grey black and white fur. I didn’t use the metallic option at all so the paler colours show up better than they would if I had. It’s like everything else, you learn what works for you.

Mallaband-Brown

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