Chocolate

Posted on April 19, 2025April 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Chocolate, Cocoa, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1913, Easter egg, fair trade, random answerLeave a comment

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

It’s Easter and my sister just asked me if I have had an easter egg as a treat. I haven’t, I had a rice crispy easter cake with a couple of mini eggs on it. I’m trying to lose weight and improve my diet.

But high percentage chocolate is supposed to be good for you so I sometimes buy 85 % dark chocolate. I recently found out that it’s good for your magnesium levels. I will only eat one square a day so I don’t increase my sugar levels.

I try and buy fair trade chocolate to make sure the cocoa farmers get a fair price for their crops, but I really ought to research it more to check this is correct.

Keep forgetting to post

Posted on April 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Questioning, Thinking, Time, Tired, WritingLeave a comment

Writing is hard sometimes

Thinking of things to say

When I’m exhausted

Thoughts stray

Are unkempt like my hair

Struggling to make sense

Of my course through life.

I’m writing in a book too

Fighting with prompts

Trying to decide

What to say and do.

Hot cross buns for tea.

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Buns, Christian, Easter, Food, Hot Cross buns, jesus, religious, TraditionalLeave a comment

Traditional hot cross buns, soft sweet fruited buns marked with a cross. Eaten generally at Easter to commemorate Jesus dying on the cross. I like the normal ones but they have started coming up with chocolate ones, or even ones with a creme egg in the middle. I’ve also heard of ones with cheddar cheese! Might as well have a cheese scone.

Lovely flower

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Colourful, Flowers, Gardening, Hope, hopes, Life, Memory, Photo, Plans, Thinking, YardLeave a comment

I don’t remember taking this photo. I think it might be from a free photo library. It’s in my media files. Anyway I just want to start planting up my pots with lovely flowers like this. Ideally I’d like a friend to be here to keep an eye on me and perhaps help with heavier pots. I love creating a colourful garden in the yard for the summer. Fingers crossed I can still do it.

Two more cat doodles.

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2017, Art, bad photo, Cartoon, Cat, Designs, Doodle, Fun, Ideas, Memory, Pottery, Sketches, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

From 2017. Quite eccentric ideas for cards and Stoke-on-Trent that I was playing with. We are known as the potteries because that’s what is mainly manufactured here. I had a bit of a play with scale. Sorry they are not good photos. My odd humour.

The Leopard destroyed

Posted on April 17, 2025April 18, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Memory, Sketching, the Leopard Hotel in Burslem1 Comment

Sketch of the Leopard Hotel in Burslem that was destroyed by fire in 2022. I just found this on my phone. I’d done several murals in the back room and was devastated when this happened. The pub was empty and it had been broken into. The wiring was tampered with.

There are some ideas to rebuild part of it using the historic frontage to keep it’s architectural authenticity. I hope it happens. #bandofsketchers drawing in felt pens.

The canopy looks like a rabbit.

Posted on April 17, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, bare branches, Letters, Library, Life, Pareidolia, rabbit ears, shadow puppets, Sign, y1 Comment

I was sitting in the library and looked out the window. I noticed the trees were still bare. Then I saw the shape of the canopy over the front door. It suddenly looked like a rabbits head. The letter Y at the end of library looks like a rabbits ears. I thought back to making shadow puppets on the wall, it’s so strange, a bit of Pareidolia?

Light

Posted on April 16, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Choir, Hanley, Library, Life, lighting detail, Memory, Music, Photography, Stoke-on trent, Sun, SunlightLeave a comment

Lighting detail on the ceiling of Hanley Library, Stoke-on-Trent. I love the design. We were singing “this little light of mine” at a monthly choir practice and it really chimed that the image went so well with the music. It’s as if the sun is encouraging people to read and to use the library to enjoy all sorts of experiences.

Playing the kazoo

Posted on April 16, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cheerful, Entertainment, Fun, Humming, kazoo, Life, Memories, Music, Silly, SpellingLeave a comment

During one choir performance we all had to get out a kazoo and play along with the song we had been playing. I’ve had it in my bag ever since and when I fished out my sketchbook today I found it again so I seranadedvthevart group with tunes like the starwars theme, Dr Doolittle, the Bare necessites and a few others. I had everyone in stitches.

By the way I looked up the spelling of kazoo. AI SAID:

The correct spelling of the musical instrument is “kazoo“. The word refers to a simple, handheld musical instrument that produces a buzzing sound when the player hums into it, according to Dictionary.com.

G-loss

Posted on April 15, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged gloss, Loss, Memories, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Thinking, Words, writers group, Writing1 Comment

I’ve joined a small writing group in my home town and we are being given prompts to write about. I’ll write up another one later but here’s a poem I did on the spur of the moment when I misheard the prompt Loss as Gloss:

Gloss over your loss

Hide it behind your mind

Don’t let it take hold

Your thoughts must not fold

Into a melancholy way

So be quiet and say

My life will be OK?

If I can find my way.

Mallaband-Brown

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