Full moon

Posted on September 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Creative writing, Howling, Mountain, Short story, Spooky, Very short story, WolfLeave a comment

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Full/harvest moon tonight. The howling started about an hour ago. Somewhere up the mountain there must be a wolf? I didn’t know they had them in Wales.

We are staying in a holiday let, a caravan. I got it online as a late booking. Yes I know, but the reception isn’t very good round here. I’ll call you back later.

Hi again, yes I know its late, but Jeff didn’t come back. I don’t know where he is and I didn’t know who else to phone? Police? No, I don’t think I need them….

Thanks for ringing back, I’ve found my charger now, got it plugged in so I should be able to talk. No he’s still not back, the car has gone so I think he must have gone to the village. Yes there’s a pub… Yes he might have gone there. Guess I will have to wait until closing time….. Did you hear that? Yes it was a howl, I think it’s getting closer……. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr……..

Planet with water vapour.

Posted on September 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, Atmosphere, Blogging, Learning, Life, Planets, Science, Solar system, Water vapourLeave a comment

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On the news tonight. A planet about twice the size of Earth has been found with water vapour in its atmosphere. Its around 100 light years away. Apparently its within the ‘goldilocks’ area around its star so its temperature is between 0°C and 40°C. It would be amazing if there was life there. The latest science is now looking for chemical traces in planetary atmospheres to look for the possibility of life on other planets.

I think the first extra solar planet was found in 1984? Since then about four thousand have been found. There are Hot Jupiter’s that orbit their stars closer than the orbit of Mercury in our solar system. There are cold Jupiter’s, there are also planets like Earth with surfaces that are covered in lava because they are close to their stars. And then there are terrestrial (rocky) planets that are more like the ones in our system.

One thing is certain, there are more planets out there than we know!

Ripples

Posted on September 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Design, Life, Ripples, Water, Waves7 Comments

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Drop a pebble in a pond, or watch drips of water fall into a bowl. You get ripples moving outwards, they reach a side or an edge, then bounce back.

Sometimes the edge is soft. Grass or sedges perhaps. Then the ripple is absorbed, dampened down. Or ripples turn into waves, waves into swelling storms. It depends on the weather.

Moth

Posted on September 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Birds, Blogging, Butterflies, Caterpillar, Earth, Ecology, Ecosystem, Environment, Life, Moths, PollenationLeave a comment

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Moths are not as common as they used to be, like many insects they are in decline. I rescued this one from our bathroom yesterday. Released into the back garden. I hope it found a safe haven.

Moths and butterflies are important creatures, they help fertilise flowers and often their 🐛 caterpillars are food for birds. Like everything else in an ecosystem butterflies and moths play an integral part. Without one part others may fail. The same is true of other ecosystems throughout the world. I hope the people of the Earth can sort things our before it’s too late.

Panorama

Posted on September 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Leaving, Lost friendship, Moving away, Panorama, Sad, Studio2 Comments

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This is my friends studio at Spode. She is moving away in the near future which is why I took the photo as a memory. I will miss her. I haven’t known her for long but she is a lovely person. Very thoughtful and creative. I hate it when good people move away. It’s happened a few times, and although you say you will keep in touch it’s hard sometimes to do that. Lives seperate, thoughts split, ideas are forgotten. I wish things didn’t change, but they do.

Reflected

Posted on September 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cafe, Mirrors, Reflections, Trentham, Trentham Gardens, ViewLeave a comment

When I’m typing on my phone I take my glasses off to see the screen. So when I took this photo I didn’t realise I was looking at my reflection, I thought we were in a much bigger room with a view through to windows at the far end. It was only when I zoomed in that I realised the blurred figures in the image are me and my hubby! It’s funny how the eyes can be fooled. It’s a cafe in the shopping village at Trentham Gardens.

Pinkish windows

Posted on September 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Environment, Light, Photo, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Purple, Sky, Spode, WindowLeave a comment

When you take a photo of an old window under purple sunsets you can get something of an interesting hue.

Ink turns pink

Sky’s surprise

Window brightened

With sunsets flight.

Glowing purple

Violet hue

Salmon sprinkled

In the blue.

Glint of crimson

Sizzles over

Bleeding sky

Paints walls anew.

Purple skies

Posted on September 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Camera phone, Clouds, Photos, Purple, Sky, Spode site, Sunset5 Comments

I don’t know why but the usual grey clouds you get at sunset (sometimes tinged with pink) came out strikingly purple last night. I have read that there is dust and ash in the stratosphere from a couple of volcanoes which is giving the sky a violet tinge at the moment. Maybe it’s that or maybe its my camera phone. Anyway I will post a couple of these to the cloud appreciation society Facebook page. Maybe they can explain.

What Spode means to you?

Posted on September 7, 2019September 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Eleanora street, Memories of spode, Spode, Spode site, Spode studios open days, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Stoke-upon-TrentLeave a comment

One of the things we did at the Spode open days was encourage people to get involved and either draw pictures of spode, draw a design, or write what Spode meant to them on a card. We got a few responses. I think now they are there they may be more on Sunday. The idea was that people could respond to the art exhibition we are holding in the foyer from artists who either work in the building or who have been involved in other projects there or who previously worked in the factory.

Youdraw

Posted on September 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Blogging, Computer art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Photos hop, Youdraw.comLeave a comment

Memories of Youdraw, a website I drew at years ago. Each block was tiny and you only had two black pens and two erasers. Together you could use them to draw black and white pictures. The intention was to collect 500,000 drawings. But they had to be acceptable. Sometimes there were rude pictures, scribbles and racist remarks. I was asked to volunteer as a moderator and used to spend hours deleting the bad stuff. It’s an interesting thought to remember all the work I put into it.

These pictures are some of my drawings that I copied from the site then coloured in photoshop. I have others and still own posters that I was sent by Youdraw.com with hundreds of images. They were going to publish a book but I haven’t heard if that will actually happen.

Good memories. X

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