Colouring my hair purple

Posted on October 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2091, hairdresser, Layers, Purple, purple hair dye, shampoo2 Comments

What could you try for the first time?

I was singing with the choir tonight and I noticed a friend had got her hair coloured very subtle purple shades. A bit like this free photo but on much shorter hair.

I have had a box of hair colour in the cupboard for a couple of years, but I keep chickening out on using it. I’m worried I might be allergic to the dye and also I have watched several videos and you can’t just use it like shampoo you have to put it in thin layers to spread it evenly over your hair. I don’t think I can physically do that!

I once asked a hairdresser to do it but she would not use a dye by a different supplier as it was a problem if it went wrong. Shall I just try and shampoo it in or give up and throw it away? I have become very risk averse!

Pain

Posted on October 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aches, Age, anguish, army, fighting pain, fronts, Hurt, Life, Pain, Poem, Poetry, Thinking, Time2 Comments

Pain attacks from different directions

Trundles like an army on alternative fronts

I need to relax

Let my body un-tense

Then the pain flows away

Fear and stress exacerbate

Anxiety cramps me up

But starting to understand

I can calm my impulses

Like a frozen bag of peas

Soothes the army of pain

Descalating aches

Deflating anguish.

Honesty and kindness

Posted on October 15, 2023October 15, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2090, do good, do no harm, honesty, kindness, Life, Prompt, truth and reconciliation4 Comments

What principles define how you live?

Why not live by these principals?

By sticking to them you can try and do good.

Honesty and kindness means not being cruelly honest, to balance the truth and it’s outcomes. Kindness is probably the most important of the two. Honesty can be used to hurt.

So the two can cause moral dilemmas, but perhaps the best use of them is to combine them with the doctors’ oath “first do no harm”, at least that can help point you in the right direction.

I remember also, the two wrongs don’t make a right, even if in mathematics two negatives can make a positive (I think I remember?). Revenge and hate don’t make the world better even if it can make people feel better. It can only worsen the situation. Given that, I’m not talking about appeasement. What I mean is that more truth and reconciliation commissions should be created. It may take many years before they can try and work, but it seems like a better idea than violence and war cascading down the centuries.

But what can I do? Try and keep to my principals, avoid anger if I can.

Backache

Posted on October 15, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Ache, Back, Backache, Cat, Life, Pain, Poem, Poetry, slept badly, Thinking, Twisted2 Comments

Ouchies it hurts

I’ve slept badly

Twisted and turned

Sat up with the cat

Sitting on my chest.

Feels like it’s breaking

Splitting in half

At waist height

I don’t feel bright!

Many things

Posted on October 14, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged counselling, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2089, Difficulty, easy, hard, held back, medium, Prevarication, Thinking9 Comments

What have you been putting off doing? Why?

When you go through bad times anxiety and nerves can hold you back. These emotions can make you hold your tongue, stop you going out, make you forget to write to, or email, or phone people. You put off till tomorrow and forget to do today… Eventually everything piles up and you don’t do anything, or just the bare minimum.

But I’m learning through counselling to do easy tasks first, then as they get easier and less onerous you can move on to medium difficulty tasks, and finally difficult ones. But if you have a set back, don’t give up. Start again with things you can cope with and gradually move on. Self repair, self acceptance. Be kind to yourself.

Last week I found myself laughing, I hope I can start doing more of the things I have been putting off. Hopefully…. Unless I get too stressed.

Eye to eye

Posted on October 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colours, Digital drawing, experimental, Green, Orange, Repair, Stylus, Tablet2 Comments

Another digital drawing from a few years ago. Also drawn on my tablet. I think I was trying to add some autumnal colours to my drawing. I love experimenting and third app I was using allowed you to add gradient fill to my drawing. I really must get my tablet fixed.

Eighteen

Posted on October 13, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged adult, College, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2088, Decisions, grown up, Memories, Time, Woman18 Comments

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?

Yes, actually 18. I left school and I was in the real world. I had to leave my old life behind. It was a shock. I felt like I was falling off a cliff.

It’s a long time ago, but I remember fighting to get into college. I had to choose between that and staying in the job I had. It was the biggest decision of my life and I’m glad I made it!

When I was older I thought about life and that your feelings and world suddenly changes. You have rights and responsibilities. You still have support but it’s up to you to follow your own path (if you are allowed to). I realise that I am lucky as a woman to have rights a lot of other people in different cultures don’t have, and seeing the way governments can change, or bring in restrictions, I don’t always feel those rights will be maintained.

I was lucky to grow up and become an adult during feminist times. I hope those becoming adult now continue to have those rights.

From 2021

Posted on October 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Digital art, Drawing, Leaves, Life, Line drawing, Sketching, Stylus, Tablet, Woman2 Comments

A digital drawing from 2021, I think I drew it on my tablet, I put it away somewhere and I can’t find it! I’ve found somewhere that might upgrade it so I’ll have to start searching!

Anyway I believe this was drawn in sketchbook app with the stylus that comes with the tablet. It was clearly a quick sketch…

The right size box?

Posted on October 13, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Belly rub, Black and white cat, Box, Cat, Curled up, Fun, hermit crab, Tortoise, turtle, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

What is a cat in a box?

Cat in a box, I think they are like an upside down tortoise or turtle? Or maybe a hermit crab? Inhabiting just the right sized box…. Finding a box the right size they can pour themselves into. We have a small medium and large cat and each have tried this box. The big cat has to stick his head over the edge, the small one could fit in twice. The middle one is like Goldilocks, it’s just the right size for the box. Wiggle room to twist over for a belly rub. I sometimes tip a bit of catnip in…. Which is most appreciated…. OK… Life is good for our cats….

River River where do you flow….?

Posted on October 13, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Choir, Colourful, Drawing, Enjoyment, Life, Lovely, Memory, Music, River, Sketching, song2 Comments

One of the loveliest and unusual songs we sing at choir practice is River River.

These are words from memory but I think they are pretty accurate. I had to look up the writers name as we didn’t have it. I hope I’m not breaching copyright by writing out the lyrics? I will delete ths post if here is a problem?

River River where do you flow
With your water the colour of tea
Gold and red in your sandy bed
Do you flow to the wide green sea?
No said the river I flow inland
Sink down deep beneath the rock and the sand.
Under the Geeji and the Mugar tree
Where the desert people can find me
Earth belongs to all, she belongs to no one, she belongs to herself
Earth belongs to all, she belongs to no one, she belongs to herself…..

I was answering someone’s question about how it goes because they recently joined the choir, and I see an image a bit like my drawing in my mind when I sing it.