Mural on cafe wall

Posted on August 6, 2024August 6, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Canal, cobblestones, Hot chocolate, Illness, Life, Middleport pottery, Mural, Painting, Recovery, RestLeave a comment

I went out today to the health clinic. My friend helped me out so we went off for a hot chocolate afterwards. We were going to one cafe but the road was closed because some buildings are being knocked down. So we took a side street and ended up at Middleport pottery in Stoke-on-Trent.

The cafe there is in one of the old pottery buildings and overlooks the canal. I’m not sure who painted this mural but it is a delicate one that includes the love birds that appear on willow pattern plates and pots.

We sat near the door in a cool breeze and I enjoyed a rest after walking the short distance from the car park over the cobbled roadway to the cafe. I felt like I could start to recover.

Illness

Posted on August 6, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged breathless, Doctor, Fed up, Illness, Life, Poem, Poetry, Recovery, TiredLeave a comment

I’d be curled up asleep

The cracks showing

My breath is no purr

More a slurring creak

I’ve been seen by the doctor

Medication prescribed

Now I wait for recovery

Bleugh

Tired and fed up.

I forgot there was sky

Posted on August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged acceptance, Aurora, Change, Garden, Grateful, Home, Life, Light, Meteors, Overgrown, SkyLeave a comment

Looking up, not at a roof, but at the sky. I’d forgotten it was there. The privet tree and hedge are missing, and I feel their loss, but if I want to look up for meteors or to try and see aurora I can do it now. And you can’t take the garden off me. That garden where I’ve seen hedgehogs and squirrels. I will try and get the rest of the garden (the bit I never show you because it’s overgrown) a bit tidier and let more light in (enough) to grow roses and honeysuckle. Xxx

Just a note. Spaceweather.com has updates of astronomical activity and there is a possibility of auroras tonight in North America and Europe!

https://www.spaceweather.com

Complementary

Posted on August 5, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Begonia, Dorothy Clive garden, Flowers, Green, Growth, Lovely, proliferation, RedLeave a comment

Red and green begonia. The flowers were blooming in the pots at Dorothy Clive garden this weekend. I was amazed at how many had proliferated in numerous containers around the garden. There were other lovely plants but these were the most noticeable.

30 things…

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 30 things, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2020, happiness, List, Memory, Poem, Poetry, TimeLeave a comment

List 30 things that make you happy.

Flowers

Sunshine

Icecream

Shade

Trees

Cats

Purrs

Music

Space

Symphonies

Radio

Television

Films

Documentaries

Food

Hugs

Painting

Gardening

Photography

Friends

Family

Honesty

Oceans

Mountains

Peaches

Home

Swimming

Art

Singing

Astronomy.

Too many mugs

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cups, Life, Mugs, Patterns, Photos, Potteries, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, turn over clubLeave a comment

A memory of my cups and mugs a few years ago. Look at the bottom of them and you can often find out where they were manufactured. The image on the bottom is called the back stamp. There’s a lot of people in Stoke on Trent (also known as the Potteries), that check this out. They are called the turn over club? Sometimes you sneak a peak when your mug is full! A dangerous manoeuvre!

Cut

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged destroyed, Gardening, Gone, hacked, House sparrows, Lost, nests, no life, Poem, Poetry, Roots, Sad, SadnessLeave a comment

My yard, flowers

Apple tree grows,

Next door? Hedge gone

Cut, hacked, defiled.

The view now, roofs

The birds homes shattered.

Where will the roost tonight,

Open up? Let in the light?

But shade gone, it will be blasted by heat.

The sun not shielded.

A sun trap,

No words can tell my despair?

They left a mess and an old fridge!

Well that’s nice to look at

Not!

Hedge gone!

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Destruction, Gardening, green gone, hacking down, Loss, Neighbour, nesting place gone, PainLeave a comment

I came home from a nice afternoon singing with a choir to find the hedge behind my neighbours back garden has gone. It’s because one of the houses have been sold and they need access. It’s a shame because the house sparrows used to nest in there. I feel like I’m under threat in all directions! The hedge on the other side of the house has been cut right back which was when we were burgled. It’s all men chopping the plants down. Tidy and lifeless. They will put some gravel down! Meanwhile my garden will survive somehow!

Gardening when I can

Posted on August 3, 2024August 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2019, Flowers, Garden, habit, Hanging baskets, Life, Love, PlantsLeave a comment

Describe one habit that brings you joy.

For years I have filled the back yard with hanging baskets and flowers. This year I had to get help from my sister to hang the baskets as I can’t climb ladders. Then I got plants from a wellness group I visit every week. Some of the plants were going over so I got them for a small amount of money.

I love this habit, but it has its dangers. I use a hose to water the plants as I can’t lift my watering can up. But it’s a trip hazard! I have to be very careful not to fall, luckily I have a grab handle by the back door. But sometimes things get very precarious!

Textured cat

Posted on August 3, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Adjustments, App, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, TextureLeave a comment

I do like adding texture to photos, in this case I used an app called photodirector. There are lots of options in it, but I tend to use the same tools each time. It has the effect of just ruffling the surface rather than adding some mad AI effects which you have to pay a premium for anyway. This was my lost cat, but he came back!