Musicals, My Fair Lady

Posted on March 12, 2023March 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Audrey Hepburn, entertaining, Fun, George Bernard Shaw, Musical, My Fair Lady, Old fashioned, Pigmalion, Review, SingingLeave a comment

I’m currently watching ‘My Fair Lady’ a musical based on the story Pigmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

The story is about a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, who is trying to improve her cockney accented voice by taking lessons from Professor Higgins. She is taken in by the Professor who says he will turn her into someone who sounds like a duchess in six months. However his methods are unfeeling and really push Eliza. The film seems to sympathise with the professor rather than Eliza.

Songs like ‘all I want is a room somewhere’, ‘the rain in spain’ and ‘I could have danced all night’.

Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza. She was able to sing the songs but they were dubbed by a singer called Marni Nixon, whose voice is in about fifty films!

If you’ve never watched it, you may feel the ideas in it are old fashioned, but it is set in Victorian/Edwardian times. The music is amazing and energetic. Worth watching.

An art and book shop

Posted on March 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Art, Art supplies, Biography, Books, Canvas, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1872, Drawing, Life, Paints, Sci fi, Science, shopping spree, SketchingLeave a comment

Where would you go on a shopping spree?

Down to the Arts and Book shop. I’d buy lots of acrylic paints, some watercolours, gouache, oil paints, felt pens, pastels, charcoal, conte crayons, pencils. Then I’d get canvases, large and small in white and black. Cartridge paper, watercolour paper, sketch pads. Glitter, metallic paper, ink, lino to cut for printing.

Science and technology books, sci-fi books, novels, biographies, autobiographical books, historic books, books about galleries, about the renaissance, about astronomy.

Then I would donate half of it to a local school or college, because I would not have space for it all, or time to use it.

Reflected snow

Posted on March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Holly bush, Insect, Life, Moth, Photo, Snowy, Symmetry, WinterLeave a comment

A symmetrical photo created by flipping a photo upside down. The main mass of leaves is a holly bush we have grown in the garden. It’s a bit like a parasol as we have cut off a lot of the lower branches. I like how the resulting photo looks like an insect on its side. I have a brain that likes pareidolia (when you see creatures or faces in shapes). If I was to turn the photo through 90° it might look like a moth?

Evening meal oops!

Posted on March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baked beans, egg custard, Food, fried egg, Mistake, oven chips, salt and vinegar, TeaLeave a comment

I started cooking some oven chips and baked beans for tea. I didn’t want to cook anything complicated as I’m still ill. I reached in the fridge to get the pies my hubby had bought to go with it….. Oops! What I found were sweet egg custard tarts. Not a combination that would be very palatable!

So I cooked a couple of eggs to go with the other food. They were tasty and did the trick.

Next time I will check what is in the paper bag before deciding what to cook. The custard tarts made a nice dessert, probably too much egg for one meal, but filling.

Sleepy and cold

Posted on March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bed, Cold, freezing cold, Life, lucky, on the street, Reading, Sleep, tent, Thinking, Time, TiredLeave a comment

It was very cold last night so I left the central heating on low. The sky had cleared and I think it was down to – 6°C last night. I was reading in bed, propped up under my moon nightlight, but I was sleepy. Suddenly Thud! The book had fallen on the floor and I had woken with a crick in my neck. I was cold and achy. The moon was clear and bright up in the sky, shining in through the window. Apparently last night there was a 20°C difference between the the coldest place in the UK, about – 16°C and the highest 4°C, so we were about a middling temperature.

Then I thought about anybody in an unheated house, or who are stuck outside in a tent or on the streets. What about them? I was in an old bed, in an old house, but I am so much luckier than a lot of people. Why is there such inequality?

Red sky in the morning!

Posted on March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged automatic photography, bad weather, bright red, Dawn, Exposure, lurid red, manual photography, over exposed, phone photo, Red, Sunrise2 Comments

Amazing how red the sunrise was this morning!

There was a bright red sunrise this morning. If I take the photo on automatic it looks too bright, almost overexposed. So I tried one on manual and dialed down the brightness which was deeper red and more like my own vision.

No answer

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged analytics, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1871, data mining, Poem, Poetry, security questionsLeave a comment

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

I’m not saying….

My bank account is…

My height is…

I’m not saying….

I live at…

I have xxxx coloured hair

My eyes are…

I’m not saying…

My pets name is…..

My house number is..

My social security number is..

I’m not saying..

My passwords are…

I’m a bot, or not?

I’m not saying!

Pinned down by my cat!

Posted on March 10, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Life, Photo, Pinned down, Poem, Poetry, rogue, Sleep, Tired, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Oh you rascal!

I can’t move..

Pinned down

By my cat!

On my legs

Just out of reach

Inscrutable stare

Always there

When I wake up!

Now I’m stuck

But you’re so cute

I forgive you

You’re neat

And sweet!

#motion

Posted on March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Devon, Dolphin, Fine Art, Georges, Life, Movement, Painting, Swimming4 Comments

One of the art groups I’m part of put a prompt of #motion on their Facebook page today. I thought of this painting. Acrylic on canvas called Georges from a few years ago. A painting from memory of when I jumped in the sea fully clothed and swam out to a wild dolphin at Challaborough? In Devon. There were people on the beach and people in wetsuits further out. Georges kept swimming past me because I was somewhere in the middle. He’d got lots of scars along his body. I found out from a poster the next day telling people not to swim with him as he was too friendly and had been cut by boat propellers. You can also catch illnesses like pneumonia from breathing the air from their blowhole.

Snowdonia sketch

Posted on March 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beauty, Drawing, Landscape, Life, Memory, Sketching, sky landscape artist, Snowdonia, UK, Wales2 Comments

Drawing from 2021. I was watching Sky Landscape Artist of the year and I decided to do a drawing of Snowdonia in North Wales. This took half an hour. I have relatives that live near to Snowdon so it’s a place I love. The landscape near where I live is more rolling hills, certainly no mountains nearby.

One of the things about the UK is that there are so many variations in the landscape. Flat, hilly, mountainous, green, forested, heathland, waterlogged, dry, arable, coastal. You can see why people fall in love with it.