Yesterday, VE day…

Posted on May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 75 years ago, Blogging, Celebrations, Commiserations, Life, Memorial, Memories, Random, The world, Thoughts, Time, VE dayLeave a comment

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In other parts of the city there have apparently been large congregations of people, playing house music late into the night to celebrate VE day. People are so badly informed and they are clearly not thinking about social distancing and their own and their families safety.

But it’s been all quiet down our street for most of the day and evening.

However the people round the back of our house had an argument earlier on. My hubby could hear them (and he’s very deaf). I was inside so didn’t hear it. I’m wondering if we should have rung the police. It’s worrying what is going on behind closed doors.

I wanted to avoid VE day. There were so many deaths, so much sadness as well as the rejoicing.

I think lockdown needs to continue. We need to take it seriously. And don’t start me on Brexit!

In six months…

Posted on May 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Blogging, Future, Imagination, Life, Poem, Poetry, Six monthsLeave a comment

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It will be Autumn again.

The leaves will be turning.

The world will have changed.

Life may resume.

We will find out,

if the tragedy is over,

or only just begun?

Flowers will be dead and gone,

Fruit will be picked.

Cats will be snoozing.

Lives will be missed.

Everyone who stayed alive

Will thank their lucky stars.

Realise they have survived.

Through the virus wars.

Dragon in my sketchbook?

Posted on May 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Doodle, Dragon, Drawing, Life, Playing, Random, SketchLeave a comment

The dragon flew into my sketchpad from my imagination tonight. I was watching a series called Merlin on TV and it just sort of happened. The purple ink pen went a bit splodgy.

The world is still in lockdown. People want to escape but its not safe. So playing with glitter glue, ink pen and felt pens is just taking my mind off it. Then edited it to a negative image to be a bit different.

Something in the post…

Posted on April 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cake, Chocolate, Custard, Food, Friendship, Post, Rum, Rum cake, Tasty4 Comments

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My friend decided to order this for us on line. Carribean chocolate rum cake. It arrived today, a small cardboard box with a yellow hexagonal box wrapped in bubble wrap inside. When I took it out of the box there was a dark round cake inside, it had a small hole in the middle. It was like a sponge cake. The box said you could microwave it, so I made some custard and warmed it through. Very tasty. And where did it come from. Not Tortuga, but Hampshire. Yummy.

Green grows

Posted on April 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colour, Duplicated, Exposure, Foliage, Garden, Green, Manual exposure, Mirrored, Photo, Plants1 Comment

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Playing with pattern again, took a photo of the garden on manual exposure and the sky and blossom on the trees was very over exposed, but the darker areas were more defined.

I then did my usual thing of multiplying the image onto four, then turning each square so it lined up into a pattern.

I get a great enjoyment out of creating these semi abstract images. The final result is interesting because of how soe of the foliage seems to float in the centre of the picture.

Cat in a box.

Posted on April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Box, Digital drawing, Fun, Humour, Poem, Poetry, Schrodingers car, Short poem2 Comments

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The cat sat in the box.

Not on a mat,

or in a hat,

not on a roof

or under a hoof.

Not in a car

or on top of a door.

Not up the stairs

or on the chairs.

But in a box

where it lived,

or died.

It was Schrodingers

purring..

Cat.

I’ve been caracatured !

Posted on April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Adaptation, Agatha Christie, Blogging, Caracature, Detective, Film, Friendship, Fun, Humour, Miss Marple, Sleuth, TVLeave a comment

FB_IMG_1587151615382 — Me as Miss Marple!

Imagine my delight when I saw this yesterday. My lovely friend Stephen Talbot (his copyright ©) has been doing a series of caracatures and this is the one he did if me, in the guise of Miss Marple played by Margaret Rutherford.

If anyone hasn’t heard of the author, she was Agatha Christie. She wrote many detective books, with sleuths like Miss Jane Marple, and Hercule Poirot.

In addition to the books there were several films, made from the 1950’s onwards. Some of them starred famous actors, like Elizabeth Taylor.

There have also been television adaptations, of which my favourite was Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.

Recently the BBC have done a few adaptation of Christie mysteries. But the most recent strayed a long way from the book it was based on. I’ve forgotten what it was called… I think they tried to over simplify the story,, so removed some of the characters.

I would love to see “murder at the gallop” again, its an old film, with wonderful music. Lots of fun.

Day thirty

Posted on April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blogging, Drawing, Ending, Fun, Humour, Life, Sketching, Thirty day challenge, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent2 Comments

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The urban sketchers challenge (Stoke-on-Trent) has just finished. We had to do quick three minute sketches each hour to show how our day had gone. I didn’t see the days challenge until just after two, because I got up late. Its amazing how fast an hour goes when you have to document it. And my day was more varied than I thought it would be considering I didn’t do any gardening today. I finished at midnight. Tomorrow we are doing a sketch through Zoom, the meeting app, of Liverpool cathedral. I might try and do a drawing of it. If I get up in time!

The cat sat on the…. Fridge.

Posted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black verse, Blogging, Cat, Cat places, Fun, Humour, Life, Photo, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

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Where does the cat sit?

On the fridge?

On the cupboard?

In the cupboard!

In the washing machine?

On your bed.

In the sink,

On you chair?

On the washing basket…..

On the windowledge?

In the flowerbed.

Behind a flowerpot?

Basically…

Wherever it wants to.!

Black and red sketches..

Posted on April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and red, Blogging, Design, Drawing, Fun, Graphic art, Ideas, Ink, Pattern, Random, Two inch squares8 Comments

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I might be submitting some little black and red drawings to a group exhibition. It’s not something I’ve done before. The work is meant to be two inches square with it being in ink and on white paper.

After drawing the two images on the left side of the paper, I realised there was not enough white and I had used too dark a red in the first one.

I tried to draw the two patterns again, but they didn’t come out as well as I’m still quite tired from staying up too late last night. What do you think? Are they interesting enough?

Mallaband-Brown

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