Not a real loaf

Posted on July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Alice Beech, Bread, last performance, life food, Memories, Music, Opera, Scene, Soprano, Time2 Comments

Dough used by the soprano, Rosie (playing Alice) who was in the Alice Beech scene in Who is Molly Leigh? On the scene she pretends to make penny loaves for the widows and orphans of Burslem. When she passes away she bequeaths her cottage to Alice. The scene shows Alice baking and donating penny loaves to the poor.

One of the props every performance was some dough so she had something to represent the work at baking she did while she was singing her part. This was left over at the end of the Opera so I decided to make it into a Cottage loaf shape! No yeast involved and not cooked.

Random photo

Posted on July 26, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged brass, cafe area, Cat, Cat sculpture, Fun, Metallic, molly leigh, Odd, Performance, PhotoLeave a comment

By the cutlery and sugar, sits a brass cat. I liked the look of it so took a random photo. I cropped it a bit but I should have got rid of the cream coloured shelf above the cat. I just didn’t notice until I added it here. I could change it now, but is it worth it? The cat is in the cafe area of BArts in Stoke upon Trent. That’s where we’ve almost finished performing Molly Leigh. You’ll be glad because I won’t be able bore you any more!

Donate them

Posted on July 26, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Charity, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2011, Fear, Flying, long haul, prize, Scared, ThinkingLeave a comment

If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

No use to me..

I’ll never fly. I might donate plane tickets to a charity so they can raffle them off as prizes.

Why? Because I am scared of flying. I know I could get on a plane and be safe. But I don’t want to find out if it’s OK…I’ve always been nervous about flying.

I look at it this way, my carbon footprint is minimal, why make it bigger. I love other cultures but I can meet them here. I don’t want to damage the environment. I would ask that the flights were not long haul. No, I won’t use them.

Blackbird puppets

Posted on July 26, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, B'arts, Bird, Blackbird, famiiats, Fine Art, Fun, Nest, Opera, Scene, who is Molly LeighLeave a comment

Two large blackbirds in a nest, one seeps, the other flutters. They have collected everything from apple cores to brass bells, keys to brooches. Theyay be Molly Leighs familiar. In one of the scenes of the Opera “Who is Molly Leigh”

Great props by makers at the BArts art company.

A balanced diet?

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged balanced diet, Comedy, comic, couldn't resist, Fruit, Fun, pun, silly photoLeave a comment

I knew I took this photo for a reason! Just for Pun!

My cat

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Friend, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Queen, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat3 Comments

She’s regal

A true queen.

Jumps across me at bedtime

She has made her own space.

Black and white

Cute and small.

Friend.

Fruit

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, five a day, Food, Fruit, Life, Music, Photo, plum, refreshing, Satsuma, Singing2 Comments

A satsuma and a plum. Part of my five fruit and vegetables a day. Refreshing when you have been practising songs for a couple of hours. I balanced them on top of each other just to make an interesting photo. They are resting on an old table that has been used for artwork.

A cataract impression.

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cataract, Eyesight, impression, Life, Photography, sheet, Thinking, View, VisionLeave a comment

I could see the window was blurry through my eye with my worst cataract and I wondered how to create an image of what it looks like? I took a photo through my bed sheet and it sort of worked. I also put it through a black and white filter because my sheet was pink. My eyesight isn’t as bad as this, but it does give an impression of what I imagine a really bad cataract would look like.

Wet

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned, evaporated, Gone, Life, Memory, nut marking, ring, stain, Thinking, Time, WaterLeave a comment

Not a nut but the ring off the bottom of a wet glass. Water absorbed into the open unvarnished oak grain. A temporary signature that will soon dry.

Food and drink finished, I abandoned it to its quiet fate of invisibility. Evaporated, gone.

Cactii

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cactii cactuses, dry, Growing, healthy. Poem, Life, Poetry, spiky, sunny window ledge, thriving, WateringLeave a comment

Celebrate cactii

They just don’t die

Easily anyway

Not too thirsty

Find the balance

Wet or dry?

Keep them happy

They’ll thrive