Old TV

Posted on December 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1960's, 1970's, Childhood, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2166, programmes nostalgia, Television2 Comments

What makes you feel nostalgic?

The WordPress image library is hard to use to find British pictures. I was looking for an image of “Robin Hood” but I could only find the bird, or a coat hood or the hood (bonnet) of a car.

I want to share some of the 1960’s TV shows I remember from childhood. Some of them are being shown again.

They include ‘the Avengers’, not the marvel ones, but John Steed and his various female companions. For example Mrs Emma Peel and Tara King. They were secret agents.

Then there is the Champions, three investigators, starring Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastido and William Gaunt. They were transformed into people with superpowers after a plane crash in Tibet.

Also, Randall and Hopkirk (deceased). Marty Hopkirk is killed in the first episode and returns as a ghost to help his friend to undertake Private Investigations. Marty’s wife Jeanie is often involved.

There are so many more, Dr Who, the Tomorrow People, Space 1999, Jason King, Department S. The Saint, the Persuaders and The adventures of Robin Hood…. So many, some from the 1970’s. And not forgetting Gerry Anderson shows like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and Joe 90. They give me a warm glow if I see the programmes, although some of them haven’t been on for decades. I get drawn back to sitting infront of the TV watching my favourite shows. Getting excited about their adventures. Life was so much simpler then.

Another year almost gone…

Posted on December 30, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Humour, Life, Melancholy, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Sad, Serious, tempus, Time, Words2 Comments

Time flies, life goes on

Hurt and pain are never gone

Somewhat diminished

But still living here

Coiled round my heart

With everything dear.

Life seen in chunks

Days weeks and months

One year follows another

Some I can smother

Forgetting the pain

But then it rises again.

My life will continue

My future uncertain

Draw back the veil

Open the curtain

On next year’s adventures

And will I have dentures?

(well I couldn’t find a better rhyme…!)

Butterflied

Posted on December 30, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Blue, Butterfly, Design, Fine Art, incollage, Photodirector, Photography, White3 Comments

Playing with collage and filters.

It started out as a photo taken through my bedroom window, as I shake I got interesting trails of light. Then by putting the photo through the same filter 3 times I got this laminated effect.

I like the simple colours, black, white and blue. I think the pattern I created looks like a butterfly. I also think it looks a bit like an xray..

Out to lunch

Posted on December 29, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Canal, Countrysiide, drive, enjoyable, Friend, lift, Lunch, Pub, Towpath, Trent and mersey, Visit3 Comments

My friend took me out this afternoon for lunch. We went to a pub called the Star at Stone and had a pleasant lunch. It’s on the Trent and Mersey canal and sits next to the towpath so it’s reachable from the water as well as the road. The decor is quite rustic and a nice mash up of old chairs and oak tables.

On the way home we drove home through the countryside on a road that parallels the main road but is more twisty and interesting. The sun was low and shining on the sides of buildings giving them a beautiful glow. A definite pick me up after days of grey mist.

Political views

Posted on December 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged allegencies, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2166, Family, Life, Memories, Politics, Priorities, ThinkingLeave a comment

How have your political views changed over time?

When I was young I voted one way, the same as the rest of my family. I was very young and influenced by their long term beliefs.

When I left home I moved into shared accommodation, I realised I had been living in a bubble at home, I hadn’t had the responsibility of paying bills before, or other things to deal with, like not having hot water and having to shower at the college. I met different people and they had different political views. Over the years I changed my priorities and my political allegencies.

All I would say is that it’s good to think for yourself, look at how life is and make a decision that is good for you, and the people around you.

Lightshade

Posted on December 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Fine Art, Gallery, Lampshade, Life, Memories, Painting, ThinkingLeave a comment

Yes it’s a lampshade. Made up mainly fake bivalve shells. Yet another odd old thing my house is decorated with. I often wonder what will happen to my stuff when I’m gone? Do I specify that all my art (lots of paintings) will be shared out to family, donated to a local museum, my old school? Maybe someone will like it enough to buy it if it were sold in an auction? Is it persuasive enough for people to like? I won’t be there to find out.

Sketchbook

Posted on December 28, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, coherent, Drawing, Life, Parkinsons, Sketching, Time, tremors, understanding myself6 Comments

I need to draw again, but with my Parkinsons it’s so hit and miss. I need to be still enough to stop the tremors transfering onto the pages. Either my drawing hand shakes or the hand holding the Sketchbook shakes, it’s like being a human seismograph! If I had the gumption I would use it to my artistic advantage. I’ve never wanted so much to colour outside the lines but in a coherent, not random way. My life needs to settle down so my mind can too.

Cadmium colours

Posted on December 28, 2024December 28, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Cadmium, Colours, Fine Art, heavy metals, Orange, Pallette, purifying colours, Red, Yellow4 Comments

In the 1980’s My hubby worked for a few years in a cadmium colour factory, they processed the raw pigments to get colours from pale yellow, through orange to red and deep matoon red. He bought me jars and jars (empty coffee jars) of the colours home, but as they are made of a heavy metal I decided to give them to a friend who knew how to use them and grind her own oil paint.

I don’t know if he was allowed to bring them but I think he knew I would love the colours and I did. They were the purest colours I had ever seen. To quote Rudolphs song “you could almost say they glowed”. As Cadmium is similar to Lead though, I decided not to use them.

Such a grey December

Posted on December 27, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bulb, Cat, Cats, Curtains, December, gloom, Grey, Light, no sun, Poem, Poetry, Support, TiredLeave a comment

Grey throughout the day.

Cold and dreary

Cat sits by the oil heater,

The others up

On the bed.

My curtains closed

I hold the grey at bay.

My “daylight” is a bulb

No warmth, just brighter

Than the gloom outside

Grey, removing colour

Sad sort of day.

I keep sleeping

Posted on December 27, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Exhausted?, Friends, Helping, Installation, Phone, plumber, Sleeping, Tired, TV, TV fire stickLeave a comment

What a day! After a busy morning trying to sort a few things out, I had some lunch, then found myself falling asleep in front of the TV. Later a friend rang up so I helped her work out how to fit a firestick to her TV. I looked it up on Google and got her to find the HDMI cable, we then spent an hour trying to sort out how it worked. I joked I would never be able to talk down a plane in distress! Ten minutes later another friend rang about a burst pipe, asking if I could help in some way. She doesn’t have a computer so I gave her some numbers of local plumbers. We spoke for so long that my phone went flat.

Then, I don’t know if I was mentally exhausted but I just fell asleep, then slept on and off till now. I must have missed half of the programmes on TV. I never saw the end of Oliver! the movie. I need to wake up to cook something for tea, I might just have some noodles.