Sleepless again..

Posted on January 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged blogging when I should be sleeping, Early morning, Humour, Insomnia, Late night, Life, Not able to sleep, Sleepy, TiredLeave a comment

Can’t sleep and I have an ear worm going round in my head ‘all I need is you, all I need is you, and all I ever knew only you’ all because I’m singing at a choir festival on Saturday and I had to learn the backing tune to our rendition of ‘only you’ by Yazoo.

I’m also panicking because I’m in another choir, also singing, but I can’t even remember the song, let alone the words, for that one. All I can remember is that it’s a song by Robert (Rabie) Burns, because it is Burns night on Saturday, when the wee Haggis is praised….

So, trying to sleep in an armchair, but I can’t get off. They recommend you don’t use screens at night, but I’m bored, listening to a little bit of Radio. Got to be out early. No doubt I will be tired out….

I will go back to bed moaning about how tired I am, to listen to snores from someone who doesn’t have that problem….

I’m not saying…

Posted on January 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bad rhyme, Fun, Green and pink?, Humour, Layout app, Photo, Playing with words, Poem, Poetry, Silly poem, Strange imageLeave a comment

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I’m not saying what you are,

A great green mop of fur.

Reflected vegetation?

I’m not sure what you are.

Troublesome alien,

Grass or reeds?

Still not sure what you are.

Pink and green,

Flower and leaf?

You are what you are..

A duster..

Who knows?

Yorkshire Poster

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Blue lias, Fossils, Interesting, Life, Moors, North Yorkshire moors railway, Pickering, Poster, Steam trains, Trains, Trees, Whitby, YorkshireLeave a comment

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My hubby came home today with this print of North Eastern Railways ‘the Yorkshire Moors’…. Tranquil solitude. What is interesting is its a railway poster, with no railway visible!

Yorkshire is the largest county in England. It is home of the National Railway museum in York and is crossed by the North Yorkshire moors railway which runs through wooded hills and moors from Whitby on the coast to Pickering in the heart of the moors.

All of the East coast of the county is interesting. There are towns like Scarborough there. A lot of the coast is not very stable. There are cliffs where landslides occur and parts made of mud, called blue lias which is crumbling and full of fossils. You can find Whitby jet in it which is fossilised monkey puzzle trees which is jet black.

Whitby Abbey was a setting for the Dracula story and every year they have goth and steam punk festivals there.

Doodling faces

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital art, Digital drawings, Drawing, Photos, SketchLeave a comment

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I doodled this today, I love drawing and doodling. Faces are my thing really, I like drawing them and get a feeling of satisfaction if I draw them well. This isn’t a portrait, it’s just playing around with drawing tools and adding layers to backgrounds.

Just a bit of fun….

Farewell Terry Jones

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Comedian, Comedy, Humour, Life of Brian, Monty Python, Monty pythons flying circus, News, Terry Jones, Terry Jones death, TV2 Comments

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Terry Jones, one of the Monty Python team, has died today aged 77. He had been ill for a while with dementia. He was born in Wales in Colwyn Bay.

He was very funny and one of his lines while playing Brian’s mother in the film ‘the life of Brian’ was ‘he’s not the Messiah! he’s a very naughty boy!’

Monty Pythons flying circus was a TV programme in the 1960’s and 70’s. It was a surreal sketch show where Terry Jones, Micheal Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and animator Terry Gilliam (who’s film about Don Quixote is just being released) all worked together to create the most bizzare and wonderful and mad series of sketches. Terry Jones would often be dressed up as a woman and talk in a very high silly voice.

The pythons also made several films and Jones was of course involved with them. He also wrote sketches for the Two Ronnie’s along with Micheal Palin and went on to make history programmes later in life. He was awarded a Bafta for his work.

It’s a sad loss. He will be missed

My old cat

Posted on January 22, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Fun, Garden Wall, Gate, Jump, Leaping, Oil on canvas, Old friend, Photo6 Comments

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Sorry for the bad photo of this, but this was my old cat. She was on the big painting I posted a few days ago. She was very clever and if I tapped the wall on the other side of the gate she would jump the gap. I decided to take a photo on an old 35mm Olympus trip camera (this was before digital). She jumped on cue and I snapped the photo. When I saw it I decided to paint it. I won a small prize in a local art exhibition.

Shades of green

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 64 million artists challenge, Art, Colour, Design, Fun, Green, Layout app, Montage, photo montage, Photos, PlantsLeave a comment

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Today’s challenge on the 64 million artists January challenge on Facebook was to take a journey through your home or garden or to take a walk and collect images of a colour. Because I’ve got a lot of plants and other objects that are green I decided to choose that colour. Including crocheted blanket from my sis, a book on trains, a box for a toy train, a multicolour duster (green section). A late I designed based on clarice cliffs’ pottery, a little sketchbook, Christmas cactus, some plants I’m growing on for spring, ferns and a green bottle, my cat and the garden outside, the border round some photos, finally the ariel roots of my orchid…..

Remembering Georges

Posted on January 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Devon, Dolphin, Fun, Life, Memory, SwimmingLeave a comment

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I met a wild dolphin when I was on holiday in Devon once. It swam into the bay and lots of people were watching it in the shallows and about fifty yards out ( they were wearing wetsuits) I got in fully clothed except for my shoes and glasses and swam about midway between the two groups. I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity. Soon the dolphin was swimming around me. I noticed he was male (later found out he was called Georges, an adolescent male). Goodness knows what he thought I was! The next day there was a notice put up saying not to swim near him as you can catch diseases when they breathe out droplets of water, luckily I was fine. I remember he was badly scored along his sides. Apparently he was too interested in motor boats. I still think of him and hope he was OK. I did a painting of him but can’t find it.

Let’s be Optimistic!

Posted on January 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climate change, Extinction, Life, Optimistic?, Poem, Poetry, Sad, WorldLeave a comment

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Oh let’s be Optimistic,

Let’s have a laugh

Let’s not see the real world

Let’s have a blast!

Who cares if the world burns,

If the Elephants are gone

Let’s all have a party,

I’ll bring my gun!

Now the world is hotter

I can leave my home.

Holiday so far away

Maybe go and roam.

The Antarctic is melting

Trees burnt down to the ground,

If we see a single leaf

Optimism and relief?

Think of the environment

Keep it safe, in peace.

Cat tree

Posted on January 21, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Cat, Cat tree, Cats, Curled up, Humour, Tired, Warm2 Comments

In winter the cats retreat to their cat tree. It’s angled to be close to the radiator. The female fits neatly on her tray. But the male is more squashed up. He squeezes on but his leg and tail sometimes flop off the edge. His tray is slightly further away from the radiator, bur they have always kept the same positions, they don’t swap. Sometimes if they get too hot they go off in search of different places. Then comes the battle of the armchairs. The cats know which is my hubby’s and like stealing his seat if he goes out of the room….

If I coukd I would shrink down to cat size and curl up on the top tray above the two cats and relax. They don’t use it so it’s free….

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