Shortest day

Posted on December 21, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dark, daylength, Hemisphere, Memory, Night, North, Solstice, South, Summer, Tipped, WinterLeave a comment

People were meeting for sunrise at Stonehenge this morning as today was the shortest day of the year in the northern Hemisphere. This is the Northern winter solstice.

Apparently the day was less that 8 hours long, although it was so cloudy and grey it might have been shorter for all I could tell.

Of course on the equator days and nights are pretty much of equal length and I presume the Southern Hemisphere had its longest day either yesterday or today. What will it be like in six months when it’s summer here again? Who knows.

Merry Christmas

Posted on December 20, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Card, Church, Digital drawing, Friends, greeting, Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, Sketching, StarLeave a comment

To all my friends, I’ve decided to donate to a charity this year, so sending out love and seasons greetings on social media. X Christine

Difficult to say…

Posted on December 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Appointment, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2155, facing things, Health, memory. Last year, Thinking, this year, Time9 Comments

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

A year ago I didn’t think I would go through so much, grief, hospital appointments, memories, loneliness.

Stepping through that year, from there to here, then to now, I had hoped that I would be starting to have better times by now, but the administration of suffering is hard to maintain. One thing after another, a bill here, a repair there, treatments, investigations, infections, tremors, everything. I must have cost the nhs thousands. It’s hard to keep up and also chase things up.

I’m not really where I wanted to be now but hopefully will be in 2025.

Cold

Posted on December 19, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chilly, Cold, Keeping warm, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Together, Warmth, wick, wind chill4 Comments

Cold seeps in from outside,

A slight windchill wicks away warmth.

House walls don’t hold heat

Leeching and sucking

Taking the warmth from me too

I sit and doze and wear extra jumpers….

Remembering us together

Keeping each other warm.

Eggs, flour, milk, lemon juice, sugar…

Posted on December 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cooking, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2157, Eating, five items, Food, Life, Pancake, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

List your top 5 grocery store items.

I would choose to make a coherent recipe….

Thin wide pancakes

Not thick small ones

Get the pan hot

With oil in a thin layer

Swirl your pancake mix

Round the base

Cook till it starts to brown

Then flip!

Not my style of stack

I prefer a crepe.

A man?

Posted on December 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2156, intelligence enthusiast, Life, man, Question, Woman6 Comments

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

One of the reasons I love science is that I started watching “the sky at night” bbc TV programme from an early age.

The presenter at that time was Patrick Moore, later to be knighted. He was an amateur astronomer who popularised science in general and astronomy in particular. This was at a time when most programmes were presented by men. What it did do was help me get into critical thinking and formed an interest in science me.

The reason why I question the query asking which MAN influenced me is the fact that women presenters could be as important. For instance Maggie Aderin-Pocock is one of the main presenters of ‘the sky at night’ now. She has been doing it for several years now and her enthusiasm and intelligence shines through.

Bad stats!

Posted on December 17, 2024December 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Exhausted?, hammering, Music, Neighbours, Numbers, plaster, Sleep, Stats, Tired2 Comments

Oh dear, I’m not on line as much and my stats are going down. I’ve been in choir performances over the last few days and by the time I get home I’m usually exhausted and fall asleep. At the moment I’ve nodded of a few times, I can hardly stay awake.

My neighbours hammering at 7am in the morning which doesn’t help. I think he is knocking the plaster off the walls of his kitchen where it is damp. Anyway I’ll write more later x

Ferny

Posted on December 16, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 4 versions, Design, Ferns, Green, Hedge, incollage app, Photograph, symmetricalLeave a comment

Another of a series of symmetrical patterns that I like to create. I usually start with a pattern or shape in one corner of an image. I then duplicate it 4 times and rotate each image 90° to the next. Each time I do this I rotate each picture 4 times so that you get a different pattern. I then choose a favourite to publish.

Canada geese mural

Posted on December 15, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Canada geese, Design, Five years ago, Lake, Life, Memories, mural painting, Reeds, Water, Water fowlLeave a comment

From about 5 years ago, a mural I painted in a friends downstairs cloakroom. I remember it took me several days and I was driving home quite a distance each evening. I wish I could still do this sort of thing. I’d previously done murals for my friends in their old house. They included the words life, love, laugh in their living room, Mr incredible, batman, superman and spiderman in their sons bedroom and a Laura Ashley floral pattern blown up and painted in pale green on their bathroom wall. I’m glad the geese turned up on my Facebook memories, it reminded me of all the lovely things I painted for my friends.

Sunset tonight

Posted on December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bright, Clouds, Colours, Orange, Photograph, Silhouette, Sky, Sunset, View, YellowLeave a comment

I saw that the sunset was developing from my side of the hill, but we are blocked from sunsets by that hill. So I jumped in the car and took some photos on the other side. This was one of the best, penkhull, England. 14.12.24. I think one cloud looks like a shark!