Worried about him

Posted on September 30, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Fear, Garden, Ill cat, Memories, Outside, Time, Tuxedo cat, Worries4 Comments

Stressed! My old cat went out while I was shopping, I realised he was not around and I’ve just been calling him for an hour. I left the back door wide open, I kept whistling, it cuts through traffic noise. I also put messages on WhatsApp and got lots of support – one person even offered to come to look for him, he is not eating much except cat soups and drinking a lot of water. It’s such a worrying time.

I thought he was in the garden but its very overgrown and if I went out looking for him I could easily fall over. BUT thank goodness… He’s back! I feel like the boy who cried wolf!

Grey matter

Posted on September 29, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Control?, Emotions, grey matter, imaging, Life, Poem, Poetry, Thinking, ThoughtLeave a comment

What is this thing called grey matter?

How does it work?

A controller of movement,

A creator of language

Emotions pull decisions

One way or the other.

Joined up letters and thinking.

Science explores and probes

Into the thing that created science.

Art and Music flow,

Pain and pleasure,

Athletic prowess.

Genius and idiocy,

Two sides of different minds.

Cat on a windowsill

Posted on September 28, 2025September 28, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, cactuses, Cast iron, Cat, Life, Photo, Tuxedo cat, WindowsillLeave a comment

A metal (cast iron) cold painted black and white cat on my windowsill in the kitchen. I have two. They both peep out through the Christmas cactuses. I don’t know why it’s there, it just is. It stares back at me, he’s quite startling in the right light. I’m seeing things better these days.

Driving badly

Posted on September 28, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Apologies, Blue lights, bright sunlight, Car, Driving, Fear, Glare, Police, Shock, Upset6 Comments

Tired and shaking. Had a lovely day rehearsing for Middleport next weekend. I needed some decaff coffee and drove up to tescos. Got my shopping. The sun was low as I pulled out of the garage forecourt. There was a car coming but I had time. I swear it sped up and I had to quickly pull out of it’s way…. It was a police car! Blue lights flashing. I pulled over apologising profusely. I was shaking with shock because Parkinsons gets worse when you are stressed. I have no driving offences and the last time I was stopped was for an indicator not working 20 years ago! I will never do that again. The policewoman drove me home while her colleague followed. Now I’m worried I might lose my licence as they have to report it to the DVLA. I feel like a complete idiot… Don’t put yourself at risk. Make sure you have enough time to pull out and don’t forget to give way! Big lesson learnt.

Dracula

Posted on September 27, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Band of sketchers, Dark, Dracula, Life, October, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Band of sketchers prompt, I decided to do something a bit dark and scary as it’s almost October. As usual using my Artrage app… Just a doodle.

The other boy

Posted on September 27, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Bedtime, Black and white cat, Cat, Cats, Life, Sleeping, Space, sprawling, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

One small boy cat

One small girl kitty

One huge

He’s big

He takes up space

Sprawling across the bed

No room for me

I don’t want to shove him

But I want my bed.

He jumps off

Then my little girl cat

Jumps up

And sticks in her claws!

Thinking again.

Posted on September 26, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Box, Fear, Hope, inequality, inhumanity, Life, Pandora, Sad, Society, Thinking, World, Worried1 Comment

I’m better off than the majority of the people in the world. I have food and water and shelter and reasonable health. I don’t live in a war zone. But I’m worried about the world, so much horror and anxiety. Will things ever get better or must we all be stuck in a morass of hate filled argument and anger? Something might give, but all I can see is more of the same. I am not generally a pessimist and it may be my feelings are simply a reflection of what’s going on in my own life. However I can wish for better times, even if its unlikely to happen in the near future. I think we are in the Pandoras box situation? We still have hope.

A bit better

Posted on September 25, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, endings, Flowers, infinite, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Tuxedo cat3 Comments

He looks like a kitten

Out in the sunshine

Flowers surround him

Lion hearted kitty

So full of life

But now in shadow.

Cats should be infinite

Beings of magic

Limitless

But as they say

*all good cats must come to an end”

Nine lives almost used up.

I can’t believe he will be gone.

Cat situation

Posted on September 24, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, heart failure, nuzzling, Purring, rescue cat, Sad, Sleeping5 Comments

My Cat is not well. He has heart failure. He’s on medication but is off his food. Just got to look after him. He’s lost weight, not in any pain. He sat on my chest for an hour this afternoon, purring, nuzzling my hand, but I can see he’s deteriorating. I think I might have to take him back to the vets tomorrow.

I’ve had him for 8 years as a rescue cat, so I don’t know his actual age. He’s so loving. I will miss him deeply when he goes.

Solstice

Posted on September 23, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Pyramids, Sketching, SolsticeLeave a comment

Another bandofsketchers prompt “Solstice” drawn in the Artrage app. I wanted to draw stonehenge but I couldn’t get the shapes right, so my solstice is set in Egypt.