He’s a lot better

Posted on October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged better, Black and white cat, Cat, good life, Happy, Life, Photo, recovered, treatment, Tuxedo cat, vets2 Comments

My cat that got trapped and didn’t come home for eight days. He’s had treatment because he was covered in a tarry substance, he’d licked it off a bit which burnt his mouth and he’d injured his eye and had ulcers in it.

After a few weeks going backwards and forwards to the vets he’s a lot better. His eye is getting better and his mouth is fine. He needs to grow his fur back where it was shaved off to remove the tar. He has to stay in a while longer to prevent sunlight burning his eye.

So I’m happy that he is recovering and can have a good life again. X

Blooms

Posted on October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oil, blooms, Blossom, Finger painting, Free app, Layout app, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Spring, TextureLeave a comment

Doodled flowers,

Set my fingers alight

Twisting, turning

Blossom flying

Memory of spring

Buds and blooms

Stained glass?

Digital art

Glad to draw

Finger sketching

Leaf

Posted on October 4, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged churchyard, dried out, four years ago, Holywell, Leaf, North Wales, Photo, Skull, WolfLeave a comment

Leaf like a skull, seen in Wales, four years ago. I kept the photo and never forgot it. Seen at Holywell in North Wales. In the church yard there. I liked the shades of colour. Grey and cream. The veins in the leaf like joints in the bones. A tongue, mouth and nose and eye could be recognised? Like a wizened wolf.

Facebook down?

Posted on October 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Analogue, broken down, Digital, Facebook, Instagram, locked out, WhatsAppLeave a comment

Fed up? You might be. Apparently Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been down for the last five hours. The link to them has somehow severed. Am I bothered? Not really, I’ve got lots I can do and it’s nice to have a break from social media. I’m one of the older people using it, so while it’s good to chat (and blog) I’m no influencer and I’m not bothered about not being able to shout into the blank abyss. I went back to choir practice after two weeks tonight. I enjoyed it. Reality beats digital!

Still gardening

Posted on October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Back yard, Flowers, Gardening, Growth, Northern hemisphere, October, Plants, TimeLeave a comment

The garden is still thriving although the evenings are drawing in. It gets dark earlier and stats dark longer. A lot of the flowers are fading but the plants are staying green. The worry is that as it gets colder they will die off, but it is to be expected here in the northern hemisphere. I do love cramming plants into our small yard and I thinks it creates a microclimate that keeps the temperature up and supports the growth. We’ve also had some heavy rain which has perked them up a bit over the last few days.

Limerick

Posted on October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged can you write?, Challenge, Esther's challenge, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, WritingLeave a comment

I just completed a fellow bloggers challenge to write a limerick. The word we had to use was Lie. The trick is that you can use the word anywhere in the limerick, you don’t need to use it as a word at the end of a line.

Limericks are five line rhymes, made famous I think by Edward Lear the poet. The format is two longer lines that rhyme at the end… Mine were Joe and Toe today, then two shorter lines. I ended mine with blame and lame. Then a final, fifth line that rhymes with the ends of the first two lines, where I used the word Know.

Sometimes limericks don’t rhyme because the last words look similar but don’t sound similar, you have to know the pronunciation.

Universe versions

Posted on October 3, 2021October 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Design, Digital editing, Drawing, Editor, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Using a photo editor to create texture on today’s #bandofsketchers prompt universe. The texture/style tool in photodirector helps give an overall effect to a drawing, opening up the lines and giving a uniformity to this image. The image was a creative attempt at depicting a past and future universe.

Scrolling

Posted on October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged attention, held, Media, Poem, Poetry, Reading, Screen, scrolling, Social media, WritingLeave a comment

📜

I wish I could stop scrolling

Facebook, insta, twittering

Take my attention

And hold it fast

Glued to a screen

Twist my head

To get away

But I am it’s repast!

Still want a sculpture

Posted on October 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Friends, Gardening, Help, Ivy, Overgrown, Plants, Pruning, Sculpture, Time, Wisteria, WorkLeave a comment

Fox sculpture.

I still want a sculpture in our garden like this but the artist has not been in touch. I wonder if something has happened to him? Oh well, people get busy. I will try again and see if we can have it done.

A good friend came round earlier today and helped with our garden. It’s getting very overgrown and neither me or my hubby can manage it anymore. The whole thing needs cutting back and pruning. Unfortunately the wisteria was a casualty as it has grown into the ivy that has got onto the roof of the extension so it needs clearing. Then you might be able to see a sculpture!

Universe

Posted on October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Fun, Galaxies, Imagination, Life, moons, Planets, Sketching, TardisLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Universe. So I did this doodle. Crystal shapes that represent ancient ideas of the crystal spheres, moons in different phases. A solar system, a sun, a tardis, a wormhole a saturn type planet… Also galaxies colliding and other space stuff.

Black fine liner pen and black felt pens. I had fun doing this.