New paintings and regular art updates.
When I promised to cut down
On sugary foods
I didn’t notice this cheese cake
Lingering just
Out of sight
The chocolate dot
Sat on the counter
Looking for a companion
To contrast with the cherry swirls
Give me strength
Never to return
To this cafe
On pain
Of chilli sauce
Poured on my dessert!
My Cat is black and white so when he comes in from the rain he often looks like an otter. He’s like that tonight but it’s too dark to get a decent photo so here’s a little illustration I did of a cat walking through the rain… He looks very fed up!
I do hate it when people hype astronomical events. If you’ve ever watched a meteor shower you know it doesn’t look like this! It’s cloudy here so I’m unlikely to see anything..
Some showers have a lot of meteors or meteorites (the ones that land).
I’ve commented on the post:
It won’t look like this. The Leonids radiate from the constellation Leo (the direction they come from, not the actual stars). They won’t look like blue fireballs, just thin fast streaks of light shooting through the night sky. Unless a large chunk of material falls through the atmosphere. But it’s worth looking up, usually after local midnight. You can really see some great shows if the weather is clear.
For info go to spaceweather.com or look up details at the BBC’s The sky at night TV programme.
A relative just knitted this blanket for winter as a Christmas present. I’d ask her to make me one but I think it would take her too long. Maybe I could by extra thick wool and large needles to make it grow faster?
I’m going to ask. I admire her tenacity x
One of my favourite flowers is the poppy, Papa er.
Different shapes, sizes, and colours.
Oriental poppies (large reds and pinks), californian poppies (small and orange) , Welsh (yellows), Himalayan (largish, pale blue) wild British poppies (reds, pinks and white), some are called Shirley’s mixed or ladybird with black splodge.
Their petals are enclosed in bulbous green capsules until they open to display paper petals that unfurl into lovely flowers. A central large seed head like a pepper shaker is left to dry and mature after the petals fall.
Poppy juice is collected and has been used in medicine over the ages, but this can be dangerous. Don’t do anything but admire the flowers beauty.
Crammed with books,
Also ornaments
Things to read
But too high up!
I need a ladder
Can’t climb on the couch
My collection is large
Ten bookcases
The real weight of knowledge
Pressing down on
Both floor and walls?
Anyone want a book?
I have been reading a lot about the Apollo space missions recently on Facebook, but so many people laugh and post that the photos are faked. I really hate this attitude and posted this comment to respond to the ridicule :
On all these posts there are idiots laughing at the achievement of the Apollo missions and Astronauts. They were ground breaking and reliant on the brilliance of thousands of people across the globe. By calling this fake you are denigrating their bravery, knowledge and hard work.
By laughing you are telling people that you don’t believe in science and intelligence. By laughing you are pushing the narrative that stupidity and dumbing down are good for humans, when the opposite is true. People need education to keep solving insurmountable problems. Give credit is where it is due instead of disrespect.
For some reason some people still believe in a flat earth theory. I try not to argue with them, but some times they come up with such deranged arguments I have to answer back!
Excuse this diatribe I replied with after reading several hundred words of what I called drivel. Perhaps I was too rude. I would like to talk to the correspondent in a balanced way, but I want to pull my hair out!
Here’s what I wrote : Sir you are not explaining science, but using psudo science. Unless I completely misunderstood your unsubstantiated arguments. For instance why is an oblate spheroidal earth unimaginable to you. Why, when planets are visible and are clearly globes, and rotate so you can see their full surfaces, can you not accept the earth is a globe too. If the sun was local it would diminish in size as it moved closer to the horizon. The same with the moon. And in an eclipse why doesn’t the local moon shrink and not completely cover the sun in some circumstances? Maybe your world view is different to mine, and we can agree to disagree, but I can find many more things that are worth talking about, like the state of the world today. I think flerfbots are just trying to distract from wars and politics.
A snowy cottage (with led lights) and a flowerbed for cut flowers. Made by a craft group I’m in. The wooden model was mostly painted with white acrylic to replicate snow. I added dark outlines to indicate bricks, stone and tiles.
This is not a good photo, but it gives you an idea of it’s size. At least it feels like I did something artistic last week.
What a day!
Showered, then out for my podiatry appointment. I’d stubbed my toe last week and had a blood blister on my big toe.
Whilst being examined I told the podiatrist about my left leg. I have problems with the skin and when I showered it got very red and sore.
The podiatrist sent me off to my General Practitioner and said she would email them photos of my leg.
I got to the GPS, but they had no appointments, so they sent me off to a Walk in Centre that looks after more serious patients. When I got there I was triaged, then seen. By then my blood pressure was skyrocketing. We are going through a severe storm and it was very frightening, no wonder I was worked up.
They decided I needed to see a doctor but as the Walk in Centre was nurse led I would have to go to Accident and Emergency. That is near where I live, and I know the parking situation is terrible!
I was just getting in my car when the phone rang. The GP has given me an appointment in the morning. I didn’t need to go to A+E.
What I’m explaining is that all this was done in one day. I didn’t have to pay, because we all contribute to the health services in out general taxes. No massive premiums to be treated. Yes there is some private medicine, and there are sometimes problems, but we are very lucky to have the NHS!
Mallaband-Brown