I can get into the country

Posted on August 17, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Countryside, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2033, England, Life, Midlands, Motorways, National Trust, Stoke-on trent, TravelLeave a comment

What do you love about where you live?

North… Cheshire and Peak District, Staffordshire Moorlands, East – Derbyshire, South- Staffordshire, West – Shropshire and Cheshire. Further West – Wales. Also Stoke-on-Trent has good road links to motorways and A roads. Sometimes they are a little congested, but you can usually get out into the countryside in 10 to 20 minutes. It is interesting because of the variations in geology depending on the direction you take. Farmland and flat land South and West, with the hills of Wales and Shropshire in the distance. North and East hills and moorland including the start of the Pennines.

Stoke-on-Trent is situated in the North Midlands of England, it also has canal and train connections and the local area has many countryside attractions including National Trust properties, historic railways and museums, Alton Towers is nearby and Jodrell Bank observatory is a few miles north west. You can even reach the seaside in Wales or the Wirral in about 80 miles.

Fixed!

Posted on August 17, 2024August 17, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged black acrylic, Bleach, Damage, Favourite, Memory, Paint, Recovery, restored, Zebras2 Comments

A few weeks ago I spilt some bleach on my favourite trousers. I’ve been meaning to do something about it, so today I plucked up courage and got my black acrylic paint out. I put a book inside them so the paint wouldn’t show through on the other side then carefully painted the orange tinted bleached areas. What do you think? I think it’s turned out rather good!

More missing photos

Posted on August 17, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blog, blog size, Dissappear, Learning, Memory, missing image, Posts, Size, Space, TimeLeave a comment

Where have they gone? Photos to accompany my blog? I’ve had to delete some pictures again because I running out of space and pictures take up more memory than writing. So if you find a post that refers to a picture that isn’t there any more, apologies. I could increase my WordPress plan but I don’t think I can afford it but I don’t want to stop. Have a good weekend x

More bad news

Posted on August 16, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Failure, Fed up, Health, Heart, Life, Medicine, Memory, Old, Poem, Poetry, Recovery, Tired2 Comments

Is my heart broken?

I have to find out..

A failure to function

I want to scream and shout!

How many more things

Can fall off, or break,

This last year has been awful

For goodness sake!

Each time I get over

One thing and another

Life comes and bites me

Will I ever recover?

Red sky at night

Posted on August 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Camera, Clouds, Colour, Hue, Orange, Photo, Red, saturation, Sky, sky at nightLeave a comment

Now the neighbours hedge has been cut back I can see the sky better. Tonight it was overcast grey but then it glowed orange red. I took a few pictures but they didn’t show the colour I could see so I have adjusted the hue and saturation on the phone to see if I could match them, this is the best I could do.

2 cats

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Armchair, Asleep, Black and White cats, Cat, Life, Memory, Photo, Pink, Poem, Poetry2 Comments

Last night two of my cats

Sat on the arms of my chair

Like little lions

What did I do?

Move to take a photo

Then one curled up

And went to sleep!

Kate playing fiddle

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged boatband 2014 memories, fiddle, Fun, Music, Night out, Pub, scurling, SketchingLeave a comment

2014 drawing, we used to go to the pub and watch the Boatband playing cajun and folk music. Sometimes I would get up and sing a song a cappela, I like “Summer time” from the musical “Porgy and Bess”. I never remembered to learn new songs, life was too busy then. Now I long to time travel back to those days. I’d give anything to be back then sitting listening to the fiddle, guitar and accordion while beautiful music scurled around us.

Esther Chiltons prompt “Sport”

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Colours, definition, Esther Chilton prompt, Flowers, Interesting, Memory, Plants, Sci fi, Sport, stems2 Comments

Sport in Botany defined by Wikipedia :

In botany, a sport or bud sport, traditionally called lusus,^[2] is a part of a plant that shows morphological differences from the rest of the plant. Sports may differ by foliage shape or color, flowers, fruit, or branch structure. The cause is generally thought to be a chance genetic mutation.^[3]

I saw a sport once. Eight or nine twigs on a forsythia bush, each fused to the next, like a pan pipe. It still had leaves and flowers. I was reading sci-fi books at the time, I was only young and found the strange formation almost creepy. I cut the sport off the bush and it never grew back. But I always remembered this sporting image!

Last Gladioli flower

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, fade, Flower, Gladioli, going, Life, Memory, Peeling paint, Plant, Red, Sad, step, witherLeave a comment

This morning the last flower on the Gladioli stem had fallen onto the path. I think someone had knocked it off as they walked past. I picked it up and put it on my step because I liked it’s beauty against the old peeling paint. It will soon fade and wither so I’m glad I captured it before it’s gone.

I didn’t see it.

Posted on August 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aurora, Clouds, coronal Mass ejection, Life, Solar flares, solar maximum, solar minimum, Sun, TonightLeave a comment

Apparently there was another aurora show last night but I must have been asleep. There is another one due tonight in the UK but now it’s raining! This bad photo is from a few weeks ago. I have a tremor and as this was a long (night) exposure over 60 seconds it means I have awful camera shake. Anyway it seems Auroras are increasing because we are close to solar maximum (the sun’s magnetic poles get more and more tangled until suspots explode out as various coronal mass ejections or solar flares, maximum is every 22 years) Then in 11 years later it returns to solar minimum. I’m sorry if this isn’t explained very well.