To all my friends, I’ve decided to donate to a charity this year, so sending out love and seasons greetings on social media. X Christine
Merry Christmas
Category: Memories
Difficult to say…
Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?
A year ago I didn’t think I would go through so much, grief, hospital appointments, memories, loneliness.
Stepping through that year, from there to here, then to now, I had hoped that I would be starting to have better times by now, but the administration of suffering is hard to maintain. One thing after another, a bill here, a repair there, treatments, investigations, infections, tremors, everything. I must have cost the nhs thousands. It’s hard to keep up and also chase things up.
I’m not really where I wanted to be now but hopefully will be in 2025.
Eggs, flour, milk, lemon juice, sugar…
List your top 5 grocery store items.
I would choose to make a coherent recipe….
Thin wide pancakes
Not thick small ones
Get the pan hot
With oil in a thin layer
Swirl your pancake mix
Round the base
Cook till it starts to brown
Then flip!
Not my style of stack
I prefer a crepe.
A man?
Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.
One of the reasons I love science is that I started watching “the sky at night” bbc TV programme from an early age.
The presenter at that time was Patrick Moore, later to be knighted. He was an amateur astronomer who popularised science in general and astronomy in particular. This was at a time when most programmes were presented by men. What it did do was help me get into critical thinking and formed an interest in science me.
The reason why I question the query asking which MAN influenced me is the fact that women presenters could be as important. For instance Maggie Aderin-Pocock is one of the main presenters of ‘the sky at night’ now. She has been doing it for several years now and her enthusiasm and intelligence shines through.
Ferny
Another of a series of symmetrical patterns that I like to create. I usually start with a pattern or shape in one corner of an image. I then duplicate it 4 times and rotate each image 90° to the next. Each time I do this I rotate each picture 4 times so that you get a different pattern. I then choose a favourite to publish.
Canada geese mural
From about 5 years ago, a mural I painted in a friends downstairs cloakroom. I remember it took me several days and I was driving home quite a distance each evening. I wish I could still do this sort of thing. I’d previously done murals for my friends in their old house. They included the words life, love, laugh in their living room, Mr incredible, batman, superman and spiderman in their sons bedroom and a Laura Ashley floral pattern blown up and painted in pale green on their bathroom wall. I’m glad the geese turned up on my Facebook memories, it reminded me of all the lovely things I painted for my friends.
Decorations up?
An angel and a moose reindeer ornament and a boxing hare, a string of red beads, some shiny holographic card and two cat ornaments? Will that do?
I don’t have a tree because of the cats, and I’m feeling very minimal this year. I will put any cards I get up on the mantelpiece.
No I’m not turning into Scrooge, just feeling a little flat and I can’t climb to hang things up. And if I did, then I’d have to take them down again afterwards. Oh well…
I remember years when I used to put up a tree, I have boxes and boxes of glass ornaments, Christmas tree lights, I would hang paper streamers, presents were put under the tree. Not much to put there now, a couple of calendars. But I don’t need anything, my house is full.
Kindness
Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.
I hope people see that I am kind
That I care about things
Wrap my heart and soul
Round those who need.
But if they don’t see it?
Not important,
as long as things improve
Kindness can be hidden too
Who needs recognition?
If you can help anyway.
And yes, I am soft hearted.
Knit one twisted pearl one!
Just found this jumper I knitted about 40 years ago! I apparently was using a twisted pearl and knit stich. No pattern, I made it up as I went along! It was in one of my divan drawers that just got sent to the tip, the drawer not the jumper!
Doodle and texture
I’ve found my favourite tweak in Photodirector after losing it for a bit. There were added tools and some of them have been relabled so it took me a while of looking through things to find the texture tools somewhere I wasn’t expecting. The original drawing on the left was done in Artrage oils app 7 years ago.
