Cat not well.

Posted on July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cataract, Driving, Emergency, Illness, Life, Parkinsons, Stress, Tuxedo cat, vets, Worry3 Comments

My Cat started breathing fast this evening. I’d taken him to the vets yesterday and he was fine. They gave him some meds but I don’t think this is anything to do with this. I think he might have a fur ball. He sounded a bit wheezy before his breathing changed. After about an hour things have settled down and he is sleeping.

I rang the vets office anyway and they said they would call me back. I dare not drive to the emergency vets because of my Parkinsons and cataracts. They are on the other side of the city and I don’t want to put him or me at risk. So I’ll stay up with him and take him down my local vets in the morning.

It’s frightening when you live on your own and things go wrong. If I can’t rely on myself I’m in trouble. Age and the aging process is a pain.

My Eye

Posted on July 28, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cataract, Eyesight, Health, Lens, Life, Looking, operation, Poem, Poetry, Sight, Soon, Thinking8 Comments

I’m waiting, with some trepidation, to have eye surgery to remove a cataract.

When will I see you again?

Will you see me?

Patched like a pirate,

Hidden from my view,

Two dimensional,. Everything…

Lost vision

Hope I’m patched up

Soon…

Short, older middle aged, tired

Posted on July 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aging, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2013, Description, Life, myself, self image, Thinking1 Comment

How would you describe yourself to someone?

Oh and an artist, a singer, enthusiastic about caring for people. Thoughtful, enjoys science, and thrillers, and fantasy, and sci-fi. Cat lover, cat mother. Not too well, but surviving. I don’t know when to relent and let myself rest. I’m stubborn, if I have a strong opinion and I will try and get my point across.

Physically I don’t think I’m as well as I could be but I do try and look after myself. It’s sometimes difficult to cope but I manage.

Not a real loaf

Posted on July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Alice Beech, Bread, last performance, life food, Memories, Music, Opera, Scene, Soprano, Time2 Comments

Dough used by the soprano, Rosie (playing Alice) who was in the Alice Beech scene in Who is Molly Leigh? On the scene she pretends to make penny loaves for the widows and orphans of Burslem. When she passes away she bequeaths her cottage to Alice. The scene shows Alice baking and donating penny loaves to the poor.

One of the props every performance was some dough so she had something to represent the work at baking she did while she was singing her part. This was left over at the end of the Opera so I decided to make it into a Cottage loaf shape! No yeast involved and not cooked.

Random photo

Posted on July 26, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged brass, cafe area, Cat, Cat sculpture, Fun, Metallic, molly leigh, Odd, Performance, PhotoLeave a comment

By the cutlery and sugar, sits a brass cat. I liked the look of it so took a random photo. I cropped it a bit but I should have got rid of the cream coloured shelf above the cat. I just didn’t notice until I added it here. I could change it now, but is it worth it? The cat is in the cafe area of BArts in Stoke upon Trent. That’s where we’ve almost finished performing Molly Leigh. You’ll be glad because I won’t be able bore you any more!

Donate them

Posted on July 26, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Charity, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2011, Fear, Flying, long haul, prize, Scared, ThinkingLeave a comment

If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

No use to me..

I’ll never fly. I might donate plane tickets to a charity so they can raffle them off as prizes.

Why? Because I am scared of flying. I know I could get on a plane and be safe. But I don’t want to find out if it’s OK…I’ve always been nervous about flying.

I look at it this way, my carbon footprint is minimal, why make it bigger. I love other cultures but I can meet them here. I don’t want to damage the environment. I would ask that the flights were not long haul. No, I won’t use them.

Blackbird puppets

Posted on July 26, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, B'arts, Bird, Blackbird, famiiats, Fine Art, Fun, Nest, Opera, Scene, who is Molly LeighLeave a comment

Two large blackbirds in a nest, one seeps, the other flutters. They have collected everything from apple cores to brass bells, keys to brooches. Theyay be Molly Leighs familiar. In one of the scenes of the Opera “Who is Molly Leigh”

Great props by makers at the BArts art company.

A balanced diet?

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged balanced diet, Comedy, comic, couldn't resist, Fruit, Fun, pun, silly photoLeave a comment

I knew I took this photo for a reason! Just for Pun!

My cat

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Friend, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Queen, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat3 Comments

She’s regal

A true queen.

Jumps across me at bedtime

She has made her own space.

Black and white

Cute and small.

Friend.

Fruit

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, five a day, Food, Fruit, Life, Music, Photo, plum, refreshing, Satsuma, Singing2 Comments

A satsuma and a plum. Part of my five fruit and vegetables a day. Refreshing when you have been practising songs for a couple of hours. I balanced them on top of each other just to make an interesting photo. They are resting on an old table that has been used for artwork.

Mallaband-Brown

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