One law?

Posted on February 12, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1846, Environment, Fairness, law, Money, People, Politics, Thought, WorldLeave a comment

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?

The scales of justice weigh heavy, there are so many laws or orders I would repeal, but I would need to be convinced that any of them improved the lives of millions or even billions.

My influences are stories like Robin Hood, mythologies and historical tales where support is given to all, for instance the tale of the good Samaritan and the healing by Jesus, and St Francis’ care for the animal kingdom.

I’ve been told by people I’m too naive, too forgiving, too caring. But I don’t care, for the world to continue as it is, is too cruel and damaging. Somewhere there must be a kernel of decency.

The world is tilting to a right wing view. People are the victims. The world is too chaotic, and somehow we need to find a balance between human needs and environmental issues. Maybe instead of letting the richest people take over let’s gently tax them and make them pay? A small contribution from their gleaming gold would help so many.

So my one law is “Tax the Richest”.

Scarlet

Posted on February 12, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Emotions, Energy, feeling, Hearts, Life, Meaning, Poem, Poetry, Red, scarlet, TulipsLeave a comment

Scarlet

Blood vessels pounding

Red Riding hood

Part of the rainbow

Heart and soul

Love in February

Red roses bloom

Tulips flower

Rage aswell is exposed

Siren songs

Oxygenated energy

Superstrong

Scarlet cloth

Poppies.

Pottery fun

Posted on February 12, 2025 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged BCB, Blue, cat head, Gardening, Orange, planting pocket, Pottery, Sketching in clay, Slip, Workshop2 Comments

Hope this will be a feature for my garden. Just made today, a planting pocket at a BCB workshop in stoke. Really enjoyed it. Now waiting for firing. The blue and orange are slip colours, there’s a little cat scratched into the left bottom corner. The black and white patch is newspaper holding the planting pocket open until the clay is hardened. I used leaves impressed in the surface for the design but the wet slip obliterated a lot of the details so then I scratched them back into the surface.

Pine tree

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, pine tree, pottery design, Spode, temple, too dark, Willow patternLeave a comment

From a painting I did of the Chinese willow pattern I did a few years ago. Based on a couple of Spode platters. It took a long time to paint the details. It’s an acrylic on canvas. This is only part of it, concentrating on a temple and pine tree. (I think). I’m sorry it’s so dark, it was copied off my screen saver background and it’s really far too dark. But anyway, I just wanted to post a random piece of my art. I’ll have to try and lighten it.

What do you see?

Posted on February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fairy, fairy swinging, Imagination, Pareidolia, Pattern recognition, Random, spill, Wings3 Comments

Today at choir someone had spilt water on the floor. Like a Rorschach test, looking at ink blots, I saw the figure of a fairy swinging. Both legs bent at the knee, wearing pointed toe boots, sitting forward on a swing, butterfly wings behind and a little pixie hat on her head. If I can I will try and draw on top of the image to see how much more I can make it look like a fairy. This is an example of Pareidolia, where the mind sees images from random patterns.

Walsall memory

Posted on February 10, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1966, Cannock chase, Chasewater, Memories, Midlands, Photo, Random memory3 Comments

I just saw this image on FB and I suddenly realised I recognised it (I think), so I wrote this about it as people were saying it was in Stoke on Trent I disagree and think it’s a place called Chasewater :

I’m from Walsall originally and I think at the bottom of the hill was a crossroads called 5 ways? There was a cycle shop half way along as you went from the Walsall end towards Cannock. (over the chase, towards the Katym memorial) We called in there in the 80s and bought a five speed sturmey archer gear which eventually was sold to a cycle collective in York…. Memories..

Apparently taken in 1966, not sure who the photographer was.

Magnified

Posted on February 9, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Art challenge, Drawing, Facebook, Life, Memory, search, SketchingLeave a comment

9.2.25 looking or searching for inspiration.
#bandofsketchers prompt was search. Haven’t done this much for months. Biro in a sketchbook.

It’s a prompting challenge I used to do on Facebook but things got on top of me. Maybe I’ll be able to get into it again. X

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!