Greyhound

Posted on February 8, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Calendar, court, Dog, Greyhound, Home, Life, Memory, Penkhull, Photograph, Public houseLeave a comment

Local public house, the Greyhound pub in Penkhull. This was another of the photos that I got into this year’s calendar. It’s another thing that is helping raise money for the village hall that was flooded a few months ago when an old water tank in the roof burst. Luckily the place was cleaned up and dried out quite quickly.

The pub was a local court for Penkhull manor a few centuries ago, and though you cannot see it here, it appears to be tudor in origin though I don’t know for certain.

I was so pleased to hear that I had got 3 photos in the calendar. If there is another competition this year I will try again.

Chocolate Brazil nuts

Posted on February 8, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Care, chocolate Brazil nuts, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1842, Food, Memories, nut allergies, SweetsLeave a comment

What’s your favorite candy?

Couldn’t find a photo of chocolate brazils.

My favourite candy (we don’t call it that in England). Is whole Brazil nuts with their shells removed dipped in a thick layer of dark chocolate.

I don’t have them very often, but I really enjoyed them at Christmas when I was a child. I think they are still for sale. The taste combination between the two ingredients is sublime. If you don’t have a nut allergy maybe try them?

Looking forward

Posted on February 8, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged England, Learning, Memories, Music, musicals, Penkhull, Poster, Rehearsing, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Spring will be well underway when we perform for one night only in St Thomas’s church Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent

We had a good rehearsal yesterday, we sang a song from the film Grease full of wop bada do wop a bing bang boom! Or something like that. It’s so fast my tongue was tripping over the words, but it got better as we went on. Then we sang the oompah pah song from Oliver! Fun and good for stretching your lungs. There will be much more to learn over the following weeks. My music sheet shakes when I hold it, I might need a music stand!

Life!

Posted on February 7, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged break, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1841, Life, Lonely, not giving up, Poem, Poetry, Relaxing, Time, TryingLeave a comment

Do you need a break? From what?

Take a break…. Lunch? No

What then?

Less stress, more rest….

But things keep going on

Coming at me

Bashing my mind

Thumping. My. Body

Some of it my own fault

But lost without my soulmate.

Tired and alone

Just want to stop the world

And get off

Leave the trolls behind

Hibernate, hide from. Life.

Not giving up

Just relaxing.

Long day

Posted on February 7, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Appointment, challenging myself, Choir, Church, Friendship, Illness, Long day, Lunch1 Comment

Drs appointment, then lunch with a friend I haven’t seen for months. Then I had a telephone appointment with someone else. Finally I’ve been to the local church to rehearse with a choir for a fundraising event. After weeks of being ill things are catching up with me. I’m trying hard to make my life a bit better. To see what I’m still capable of. I need to change my diet and get some other health problems sorted out.

Posted on February 7, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, digital finger painting, Doodle, Drawing, erased, Fun, inverted colours2 Comments

I worked a bit more on this digital drawing. I used a filter in photodirector to invert the colours, then an eraser that took out some of the dark colours and revealed the underlying colours. I think this looks a little like marble?

Red dawn

Posted on February 6, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged camera shake, Dawn, Life, orange sunrise, Red, Red sky, Time, winter sunrise, WorldLeave a comment

Yesterday’s dawn was very orange red on the horizon. This photo has bad camera shake but I tried to capture the colours by putting my camera on night mode and stopping when it got between 20 and 30 seconds. It would have just been very overexposed if I’d continued.

Breath

Posted on February 6, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Air currents, Art, ArtRage app, Breath, Drawing, Finger painting, semi-abstract, SketchingLeave a comment

Semi abstract digital drawing with the Artrage app. I wanted to fry and create an idea of the air currents that happen when you are breathing. This was a finger drawing rather than using a stylus. I haven’t been doing much recently.

Tulips

Posted on February 6, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bright, Cheerful, Colour, Daffodils, Flowers, Gift, Poem, Poetry, Snowdrops, Spring, Tulips2 Comments

A gift that cheered

Bright lights in the gloom

Startling red

Yellow glow

White as snow.

Soon the daffodils will be out

Snowdrops already here.

Spring might spring early

This year!

Mystery plays

Posted on February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acting, Art, Entertainment, Hope, Mystery Plays, Penkhull, plays, production, Summer, Theatre, Whale2 Comments

It’s been a few years since we did a full mystery play, but we are trying to put something on for it’s 25th anniversary.

We’ve lost a few people along the way through health issues and retirement, but there’s still enthusiasm there we just need to mine for it!

Currently we are looking at putting on a days entertainment but costs are staring at us, everything from insurance to road closures, hiring the hall, making props, writing scripts, organising stalls and first aid, morris dancing and a tug of war. Singing and playlets. We may miss out the play itself, it’s up in the air.

Social media helps connect us. I hope people are listening. We have an old Facebook page that was last posted on in 2019…BC…brfore covid…. Fingers crossed people get involved.

Photo is of out Johna and the whale play in 2016

Might set up a go fund me page.

Mallaband-Brown