Jumping cat

Posted on August 17, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Black and white cat, Cat, Clever cat, Gatepost, Jumping, Love, Photo2 Comments

Bad photo of my old cat jumping before we moved house. It’s blurry with my camera shaking Parkinsons hands.

I used to walk around with her purring, draped round my shoulders. She would follow me everywhere. Once when I walked into a friend’s bungalow via the back door she sat by the door for ages, I’d come out of the front door and my friend had found her waiting for me!

She would jump across from one gatepost to the other when I tapped the wall. I got several photos of her doing this and used them as the reference for the painting. I actually won a small prize in a local exhibition for this painting.

Missing my cat (back now and OK)

Posted on August 13, 2025August 13, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged asleep? Hot, Black and white cat, boy and girl cats, Cat, Missing, Playing, Tuxedo cat4 Comments

He needs his meds

He has a heart problem and is on medication twice a day. He’s probably just asleep somewhere in the shade but it is 29°C here and I’m worried. I will go out in the garden and call him, but I need to be careful as I’m unsteady on my feet. Why does this have to happen now. He’s due back at the vets tomorrow for a checkup. My other boy cat has probably moved out. He only comes home every few days and turns his nose up at his food. My female cat is also out… Maybe they are off playing together!

Pottery closure

Posted on August 13, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Ceramic, Closed, Hand painted, Industrial heritage, Life, Pottery, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent1 Comment

There was a pottery in Burslem where they let you paint your own designs.

Unfortunately like many other ceramic factories it has closed. The cost of gas and electricity means that a once thriving local industry is dwindling. Stafford pottery was one of the latest victims.

There are still excellent potteries that create designs and pieces of art for the 21st Century. Portmeirion, Emma Bridgewater, Wedgwood are a few that continues to produce beautiful work. It’s hard to say whether they will still be producing ceramics in a few years time. We also have a company called Lucideon which undertakes research and development of ceramics for such things as electrical insulators, non slip tiles and other diverse uses.

Hopefully this city of potters will continue to survive well into the future.

What to paint….

Posted on August 11, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Brushes, Canvas, Cat, Exhibition, Fine Art, Idea, Paint, Painting, Palette, Thinking, VisionLeave a comment

A little exhibition is coming up in September and I am not sure what, if anything, I can paint. My vision is quite odd now, a bit doubled, a bit blurred.

I’m thinking of possibly painting cats. Just some simple and gentle and nice! With a bit of character. Not a generic cat… Not a pretty cat, a growl tiger, curmugeonly, interesting cat… I don’t know, golden eyes? But first I need to fish some paints out!

Bad day

Posted on August 10, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Aching, Cat, Cheered, cramping, Hidden, Illness, Life, Parkinsons, Sad, Thinking, Tired, WorryLeave a comment

My day has been spent shut inside the house. Not wanting to go out, shaky and achy. My feet are cramping, my hands tremble and twist tightly. I started doomscrolling which was a mistake. I also wanted to keep out of the heat and humidity.

This is the reality of a bad day of Parkinsons. Quiet, just mooching, worrying, thinking about the future. Things I can’t do. Fears of what I need to be careful about.

I need to put washing on the line, I really need shopping. But I had trouble washing my hair. I’m not supposed to get water in my eye because of the surgery, but leaning backwards in the shower feels very unsteady.

Reading about other people’s problems makes me realise how much people have to put up with. Life isn’t always easy.

BUT my Cat just jumped on my lap. She’s happy and purring… Not so bad then..

Texture

Posted on August 9, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Experiment, Photodirector, Textures, Tools, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

There is an app I really enjoyed using, but I’ve found out the version I use is being updated and the textures part of it is closing. That means I won’t be able to do this anymore.

I’m really sad because it’s given me a few ideas for creating more abstract paintings. I’m hoping that it will be changed to a similar type of tool but I don’t know. It’s like changing oil paints to acrylic without any explanation. So I’m just waiting to see in some trepidation.

Wanders in cat…

Posted on August 6, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Catfood, going, Life, not staying, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He comes in for 5 minutes

Sniffs his food

Ignores it

Comes and lies down in a loaf

Shaped like a bread

Then gets up

Stares at me

Walks off

Out the catflap.

I’m clearly below his status

I think he’s going to a new home

Someone must be feeding him

But I’ll still love him

Big beautiful boy.

Bedtime

Posted on August 6, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cat lady, Life, Lonely, me and the cats, Memory, solitary, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

She came up on the bed, but as soon as I lay down she was gone! Came back later to poddle (air biscuit?). I do love my cats, good company until they try and trip me up! Another quiet, quite lonely day. But I’m used to solitude now. I don’t know how I’d cope with anyone moving in.

My cats are not photogenic!

Posted on August 5, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Black cat, Cat, cats perspective, ignored, Phone, Photo, photogenicLeave a comment

Mum why are you waving that slab of plastic in my face? I can’t see you because it’s in the way? Your eyes are always on it. Hunched over it. At least when you used a keyboard I could walk over that and sit on it and make lo[[[tttttttttttttttttttssssss of letters with it!

Mum do stop with your hands on the front of it! I want you to look at me, stroke my nose, rub my head, tickle my ears.

Oh you are not interested? Then I’ll look the other way…

Cats

Posted on August 4, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged 30 things, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2020, Fun, Life, List, Names, Poem, Poetry, SillyLeave a comment

List 30 things that make you happy.

Cats,

Cats in hats

Cats on mats

Cats in sunshine

Cats on chairs

Felines

Jaguars

Tigers

Lions

Pumas

Leopards

Multiple cats

Pussy cats

Kittens

Toms

Queens

Ginger cats

Tuxedo cats

Maine coone cats

Tortoise shell cats

Black and white cats

Civit cats

Snow leopards

Wild cats

Devon Rex

Cornish Rex

Sphinx

Black cats

Moggies

Lynx

(not that I’m obsessed).

Mallaband-Brown

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