How do I feel?

Posted on November 21, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Age, boggy, Cold, Description, Life, marshy, older, Sketching with words, Tired, WrinklesLeave a comment

How to describe how I feel at the moment? Cold, boggy, marshy. With a dollop of cat trying to cheer me up. Trying to keep my thirst topped up as a drizzle of germs escape my pores.

The cold is in my house, November is wet and drear now, the snow melting into puddles, possibly around my feet. A muddy, gritty, sloppy mess. My central heating works downstairs, but I can’t sleep in heat so the radiators remain off upstairs. The cats are clothed in fur so are OK. My clothes are warm enough with a brown dressingown to top it off. I need scrooge’s nightcap and a candle to make it perfect.

Hands increasingly wrinkled, my ribs a sheet of ice that crackles under the skin. Stretch too much and it pulls on the margin of the cartilage. I’m feeling my age, and slowly seeing it emerge from my mess of greying hair.

I don’t normally like to be too descriptive, but today I’ve just tried to give it a go.

Telling the weather by cat

Posted on November 16, 2024November 16, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cold, Damp, dusty, Forecast, Frost, Life, otter, Poem, Poetry, Sunny, Time, Weather, WetLeave a comment

Some cats avoid rain, take shelter

One of mine must have otter DNA

Who needs a barometer when you have him.

Wet fur = rain

Cold fur = frost

Cold white fur = snow

Warm fur = sunny

Dusty fur = Saharan sand!

Yes he’s a weather forecaster

Though he doesn’t know it,

He’s just come in

Damp.

Putting the heating on.

Posted on October 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Central heating, Cold, Cooking, Cool, Heating, Life, managing, oil heater, radiators, Time2 Comments

I’m limiting how long I have the heating on each day. I have a timer on my central heating that can be set to quarter hour intervals. I have set it to one hour in the morning, one in the evening and about half an hour at two other times. That way I can get the temperature up slightly for washing up and bathing while I wear warm clothes to stave off the cold.

My oven no longer works and I only use the hob on the top plus a microwave and an air fryer. So I can heat up food, and I have an oil filled heater near me if I’m getting really cold.

Why? My income is too low to pay out as much as when hubby was here. He had a seperate income. But just because I’m a bit cool doesn’t mean I’m uncomfortable. I can cope. Things will change. I will try and manage. I just hope for a warm winter! Not a good idea as the globe warms, but at least my carbon footprint is quite small!

Lurgy

Posted on October 1, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Achy, Cats, Cold, dripping nose, germs, Illness, lurgy, Poem, Poetry, sneezing, Tired, WarmLeave a comment

Last might my voice was croaky

I sneezed twice. But I was ok

Now I have the lurgy

I feel tired and achy

My nose is dripping like a tap

My eyes are gunged up.

Change in weather

Cold germs sneak out and gets you

Warm germs decide to leave.

I always get colds in autumn and spring.

Fed up

The cats hate me sneezing

Loudly…

Germany on a coach

Posted on September 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Calais, Coach, Cold, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2050, Ferry, furthest, Germany, Illness, Rhine, Wine2 Comments

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

The furthest I’ve traveled was to Germany on a coach. I went on a wine tasting trip with my mom. It was a four day trip and it was a bit disappointing because I had a cold.

We drove a long way from the Midlands through London to Dover. We waited for ages to get on the ferry, then across to Calais. I remember staying on deck on a cold wet afternoon because my mom had seasickness. Then on through France and Belgium to Germany. I noticed the countryside was similar to Britain but the electricity pylons looked completely different. Much sturdier and solid instead of our criscross filigree style. By then the cold was getting to me and I slept until we stopped at a petrol station and I tried to ask for aspirin, but used the wrong phrase ‘haben du’ informal, instead of ‘haben sie’, I didn’t know I was being over familiar.

One of our coach passengers thought we had gone into East Germany? Why, I don’t know, he was a bit odd.

After two days tasting (and snuffling) various wines and realising I liked ‘qualitatsvein mit pradikat’ the best. We had a trip on the Rhine, and to a cuckoo clock shop, and to a bridge over the Rhine to see statues of the Rhine maidens I think? Mom and I came home on the coach again. Just starting to feel better, the best bit was watching ‘the hunt for red october’ on TVs on the coach!

Stretch

Posted on August 23, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cold, Evening, Paws, Poem, Poetry, Sleepy, stretched, Warm, WindyLeave a comment

Paws stretch out

Greeting me

Just saying hi

It’s nice to be

Warm and relaxed

On a cold evening

Wind swirling

Late August

Good night.

Frappachino?

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged air conditioning?, ArtRage app, brain freeze, Chocolate, Cold, frappachino, Freezing, Rest, Shopping, Sketching, TiredLeave a comment

I went to my art group for mental wellbeing this morning and decided on the way home because the weather is sunny and burning hot. So I went shopping to save having to go out again later. While I was in the supermarket I treated myself to a chocolate frappachino? Is that what it’s called (milkshake) it was so cold I got real brain freeze! (drawn in Artrage app).

It’s about 30°C outside and I was in the car which was incredibly hot. No air conditioner so I had the windows wide open. I was so tired and overheated when I got home I’ve just come in and kicked my shoes off. Now for a rest!

No cherries, no pears

Posted on July 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged apples, Bees, Cherries, Cold, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Pears, Sad, Trees, Wet, WindyLeave a comment

Each year we have cherries and pears on our trees. The birds get most of the cherries but we get good pears, that is until this year.

We had a lovely display of blossom. The cherry and the pear tree blossomed first. Early in spring. Lots of flowers, pink and white. But I was worried because it was cold and wet and windy and I didn’t see many insects (and we don’t seem to have had birds nesting either). A couple of weeks later the blossom had faded and petals showered the ground. Then the apple tree came into blossom. The sun shone and bees arrived. Now I have no cherries, I saw the little stalks with tiny pips all over the ground, and no discernable baby pears. It’s so sad. It’s like they have given up now hubby is gone.

My only consolation is that there are lots of apples on the tree. But it hangs over into my neighbours yard and I am worried they will cut it back, and as there is a trellis fence in the way I can’t access the fruit. Drat!

Going abroad with a cold

Posted on July 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged channel, Coach, Cold, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1990, Holiday, Illness, Life, Memory, Wine tasting3 Comments

Describe your most memorable vacation.

I went on holiday on a wine tasting tour with my relative. Unfortunately I started coming down with a cold on the coach. Soon my nose was red with sneezing and my throat was sore.

Over the channel and into Europe. I slept most of the way. I had thought that I would be able to order some aspirin in a shop, but I made the mistake of asking for it in a familiar way rather than the proper (formal) way with strangers. I got an disapproving look!

Two days of cold with runny nose. I don’t remember much, I couldn’t taste the wine, I didn’t know how to order food. Half of the trip was during a local holiday so the shops shut at midday.

Eventually it was time to come home. I enjoyed the scenery, the friendly vineyards and wine tasting cellars. But I was glad to be back on the coach.

The highlight? Watching ‘ The hunt for Red October’ video on the TV above my seat. It cheered me up and took my mind off the journey.

Tired!

Posted on June 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boring, Cat Food, Cold, Heating, Life, Rain, Shopping, Sleep, snoozing, Tired, WetLeave a comment

What a day! Rain so heavy it must have weighed a ton! A few sunny spells. So cold I put the heating on, snuggled down and snoozed.

As I type I can hear the cars splashing through the rain outside and loud drips falling against the window round the back. At least my new plants and hanging baskets are getting well watered. I need to do some more gardening. Potting plants on, but it’s easier to shiver inside.

What else did I do? I watched a few YouTube videos and got out to get some cat food. Sheer excitement. Hence the pretty flowers, it’s less boring than today.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Cold