My memory (phone)

Posted on September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cleaning phone, clearing up, deletions, file sizes, Life, Media, Memories, Photos, thousands of photos, WordPressLeave a comment

Why does my phone switch itself off when I try and take a photo? I think I might have too many photos in my phone memory and I don’t optimise them enough. When I do try and do that the picture sizes are reduced but the originals stay on the phone. So I have to go through them all to remove duplicates. This also means that all the photos are stacked under one date (today’s), but I have to do it. I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do it now. It also means that the photo sizes here will be reduced.

My dilemma is that a lot of pictures here are large and they are taking up a lot of space, so I sometimes have to take off photos from my blogs to give me a bit more room to add new pictures here. So if you find a blog of mine here without a picture? Well that’s the outcome of not being able to afford a better package on WordPress. X

Tranklements

Posted on September 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged bits and bobs, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2058, dialect word, England, Fun, Midlands, Old fashioned, Stuff, Things, tranklements, Word4 Comments

What’s your favorite word?

Tranklements is an old fashioned word meaning bits and bobs, a collection of odds and ends, shiny things like a magpie would collect.

I think it is an old historical word from the Midlands of England. Certainly I’ve only really heard it used in The West Midlands around the Birmingham area. I think its a dialect word.

In context you could say I’m just getting my tranklements together if you wanted to gather your lace making kit or a bag full of knitting stuff. Or bits of costume jewellery, a bag full of paints or makeup.

I like it because it sort of explains what it means just in the sound. It should be used more often!

The Great Orme

Posted on September 10, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bronze age, cable cars, chair lift, copper mines, Great Orme, History, Llandudno, Road, Steam engine, summit, Town, Trains, victorianLeave a comment

The mountain by the sea

A pier stretches out into the water, a grand hotel sits behind it on the shore. Drive round the coast and rise up to the summit by road, or use the tram service, which takes you past a bronze age copper mine. Or up the cable cars to the summit cafe. There is a small nature reserve at the top where indigenous plants are encouraged to grow. The mountain stands above Llandudno in North Wales. The town itself has grand terraces of three and four storey houses, hotels and apartments. Many of them from when the town was a Victorian resort and tourists arrived on steam engines. A good place for a day out.

Bara brith for tea.

Posted on September 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bread, Food, Fruit, Life, Llandudno, spices, Tasty, tea shop, Treat, Wales, Welsh, Wikipedia, YeastLeave a comment

With a cup of tea.

Just back from Llandudno in Wales where my sister bought me a Welsh fruit loaf for a treat. I just had a couple of slices with some butter and a cup of tea. Very nice. Apparently it’s lost favour with younger people but I’d urge you to try it.

Wikipedia says :

History:

Bara Brith derived its name from the Welsh language, bara meaning bread and brith translating as speckled. It was traditionally made in farmhouses by adding fruit, sugar and spices to the basic bread dough to make a sweet treat for special occasions. It has subsequently been used as a colloquialism—to “over spice the Bara Brith” means to do something to excess.

We got two loaves from a little tea and cake shop in Llandudno.

Peaches

Posted on September 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dorothy Clive garden, espaliered, Fruit, Gardening, Growing, Juicy, Memory, peaches, Photo, SummerLeave a comment

Peachs on a bush. This was an espaliered bush where the branches are held against the wall horizontally. This allows the fruit to set on the branches and grow bigger and more juicy as the summer goes on. The photo was taken at the Dorothy Clive garden n the Staffordshire countryside. I would have loved to have tasted one of them.

Under trees

Posted on September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged canopy, Green, History, mature trees, Memory, Saplings, Shade, through time, Time, TreesLeave a comment

The trees are full of leaves, bulky and heavy laden. They clean the air, drawing in carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. I hate to think of when these trees will be gone. They may become aged and diseased. I think of them 50 years ago, how big were they then? Saplings or bigger? How old are they. What is their life expectancy? I hope they see the next century safely. Their dark green canopies giving continued shelter even as the climate heats up.

This doesn’t happen…

Posted on September 8, 2024September 8, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2055, Fine Art, Hubby, Life, Loss, missing things, no organisation, Painting, Studio1 Comment

Describe your ideal week.

My ideal week would be to go out to a studio, paint for a few hours, make good progress on a painting. Go to choir practice. Cook tea for me and my hubby. Sit and chat about our days.

My ideal week would include going for a walk with him, he might go for a cycle ride to see a friend. He goes to bed early, I stay up late to read or watch TV.

In my ideal week I would sleep well, wake refreshed. Go for a drive somewhere with my hubby. Visit a national trust property.

In my ideal week I would try and paint some more, take some photos, go on the Internet.

In my ideal week I would still have my hubby, I would still have my studio, I would still be doing art or at least more than I am now. I’m just struggling to get back to something like an ideal week.

Cat back

Posted on September 8, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, pad, Poem, Poetry, Sleep, Tuxedo cat, wet snuck outLeave a comment

He snuck out you see…

Didn’t come back

For two days

I think he has a pad

A place to sleep

When he wants to be bad

Then I don’t see him

Which makes me sad!

Usually he comes back

Soaking wet

To have a wash, grub,

Then off again!

Sarah Storey

Posted on September 7, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cyclist, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2054, dame, paralympian, Paralympics, Sarah Storey, swimmerLeave a comment

Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why.

Dame Sarah Storey won her 19th Gold medal at the Paris 2024 paralympic games today. She has competed at 9 paralympics over several years. She started out as a swimmer but then took up cycling. Her 19th gold was for winning a road race around Paris. She also competes in the velodrome. She was born in 1977 and was made a dame because of her abilities as a sportswoman. Her physical disability is an underdeveloped left arm and hand from before she was born.

Face in a landscape

Posted on September 7, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Boredom, Experiment, Face, Fine Art, Landscape, Learning, Memory, Surreal, Time2 Comments

Painting from a few years ago. I sometimes come up with ideas I like, but I don’t keep doing the same things over and over again. I’m not sure if I could keep repeating an image with just little changes. Once you start doing that you might as well be creating Christmas or birthday cards.

I like being experimental. I might not always get it right but if I continue I learn with each effort. This acrylic on canvas is quite surreal, but why not?

Mallaband-Brown

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