Writing group prompt: A love poem?

Posted on March 24, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Grief, Hubby, Life, Love, Missing him, parting, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Sadness, seasons, Thinking, writing group2 Comments

You hold my heart in your hands.

Squeeze a little and my heart burns.

Squeeze a lot? Somersaults.

The thumping steadies.

I need blood pressure medication.

Once many years ago we met.

First sight love?

No, it took a while.

No dancing bliss.

I almost gave you a miss.

My first kiss? Shy.

Then you were my guy.

But once it started.

Love and happiness grew.

Blossomed in Spring.

Flowered in summer.

Was gentle in autumn.

But flew away and was lost in winter.

Now love and greif mix.

I can imagine no one else.

But you.

Fern time

Posted on March 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Ferns, Flowers, Garden, Imagination, Life, Memory, spring time, Thinking, WallLeave a comment

Ferns are growing in the wall again, catkins are appearing on the trees. My snowdrops have flowered and now the daffodils and helibores are in flower. Soon the tulips will open.

I can’t wait for warm breezes. Marigolds, wallflowers, wisteria and nasturtiums. Blue skies and then the fruit blossoms. The days will be longer and it might help me feel better. I hope the bees and ladybirds arrive soon.

Ice wall?

Posted on March 23, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Circumference, Confused, Discworld, Facebook page, flat earthers, Globe, ice wall, Life, Sphere, Sun, Terry Pratchett, Thinking2 Comments

For some reason I’ve joined a Facebook page where people debate whether the Earth is flat or a sphere. In the last couple of weeks I’ve read some very odd speculations about how the Sun must be close to the earth and the ocean is held on the earth by an ice wall that is attached to it’s circumference.

I was interested because the author Terry Pratchett set his comic fantasy Discworld series on a similar structure. It sits atop four elephants which ride on the shell of the world turtle, the great a’tuin. To be honest his ideas are more sensible than the flat earthers!

It’s a funny and confusing page, although people do get into arguments. The scientific facts about the globe are repeated over and over again, but they are disputed and often completely contradicted by videos that are nonsensical, with descriptions that are very odd indeed.

Why do I read it? Because it makes more sense than what’s happening in the USA at the moment!

Sunshine and showers

Posted on March 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blue, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1886, Flowers, Poem, Poetry, Rain, rain drops, Showers, Sky, Spring, Summer, Weather2 Comments

What is your favorite type of weather?

Not all nlue

Clouds too

Drops of rain

As showers hit the plain

The smell of damp ground

Soils compound

Life giving water

Flowers start to mound

Up to the sky

Blue bells and forget me nots

Softly watered…..

Possibly a Tardis.

Posted on March 21, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Choice, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1883, David Tennant, Digital drawing, Dr Who, Life, Tardis, TattooLeave a comment

What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

My digital drawing of David Tennant as Dr Who

I love Dr Who but there have been many actors who have played Dr Who and although I have my favourites I think I would have a picture of the Tardis whirling through space and time. It’s an iconic piece of science fiction history. I’d have a tattoo on my ankle. But it would have to be very small as I don’t like the idea of pain!

Red nose day in the UK

Posted on March 21, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged billion, Collection, comedians, Comedy, Forty years, Fun, Laughter, Life, Red nose day 2025, TimeLeave a comment

Back in 1985 several comedians got together and started raising funds for charity. A few years later it became a biannual fundraising event for people in the UK and around the world. The comedian Lenny Henry was at the forefront of the shows and helped present so many funny routines that made it such a different type of telethon for collecting money. Many comedians and musicians have lent their support to the show including Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders. Billy Connelly, Griffin Rhys Jones, Miranda Hart, Russell Caine, and many more. The show also went to places to see how they could help and recorded the results of their support of communities and individuals. Providing help for people suffering from HIV, and other chronic diseases, mental health issues, children injured during war, starvation and so many more frightening experiences.

Comic relief has collected over One Billion pounds in donations from the British public in those 40 years and are continuing to do so. We may wish that governments should support more needy children and young adults, but at least we are trying to make an effort to help.

Unfit

Posted on March 21, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eating, Fed up, Hungry, Illness, Painful, Poem, Poetry, Poorly, Sleeping, Tired, uncomfortableLeave a comment

I’m ill again.

My stomach is my enemy

There is something wrong with me

Twisting and turning

Poorly

Keep sleeping

Trying to get comfortable

Cramps

Fed up

Not eating much

Aches and pains

Why?

Patterns

Posted on March 21, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, carpet, Design, Fun, incollage, knees, Photodirector, Playing, SketchingLeave a comment

These are my knees and a very patterned carpet. It’s been put through various style and texture choices in photodirector and also incollage. I like adding and changing textures in these apps, it makes things more interesting.

Esther Chiltons weekly prompt: Funny moments

Posted on March 20, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Esther Chilton, funny moments, Humour, Memory, Prompt, Thinking, Time1 Comment

Esther requested a piece of writing about a funny moment this week and my memory went back to my early childhood…

Thinking of children and what they say and do. I was a young child, probably about 5. I was developing a wart on my thumb and asked my mum what I should do? She told me to rub some bacon on it and bury it in the garden. Some time later she found me outside calling for her, asking if I could come back inside? I’d rubbed the bacon on my thumb then shoved my thumb into the soil! I always have taken things too literally!

Trying to work at art…

Posted on March 19, 2025March 19, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art group, company, Crochet, Drawing, Knitting, Mental health, Paintings, Sketching, Writing1 Comment

There is a new community project nearby and I went up yesterday to have a chat and try and feel a bit more engaged with people. Various things are happening including knitting and crochet, crafts, painting, and writing. It got me out of the house and helped save money on heating. While I was there I did a sketch of a couple of the attendees.

They called me their resident artist which I thought was rather sweet, although there are lots of other people creating artwork there, so it’d not really an accolade I should accept. But it is giving me the opportunity to maintain my skills. I don’t shake as much when I concentrate.

Today was different, I went to my group meeting for my mental health, it’s another craft group, but after I’d had a bit of breakfast I felt really icky, I ended up coming home early, mostly feeling overwhelmed and tired now. But I must try and continue with art, it’s really the only thing that keeps me going.