Apple

Posted on July 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apple, Art, Brexit, Drawing, Eating, farming, Food, Life, Politics, shortage, Thinking3 Comments

I used to love apples, crisp and crunchy or sweet and soft in a pie with cream. I wonder why I’ve stopped buying them? Stopped seeing them? I see lots of soft fruit, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, bananas galore, oranges, peaches, even limes, but I don’t see many apples? Perhaps there has been a shortage of them? Maybe there were not many harvested in autumn.

Funny how you only miss things in a sudden feeling that there is something gone from life. I wonder if politics, brexit, not allowing as many foreign workers into our country, has had an effect on it. It feels like the old sayings ‘shooting yourself in the foot’ or ‘cutting off your nose to spite your face’? No doubt things will sort themselves out? I hope!

Eating chocolate icecream

Posted on June 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chocolate icecream, Eating, Food, greedy, Hunger, Life, Luck, Poverty, Tasty, Thinking2 Comments

Oh dear! After a couple of gin and tonics some chocolate icecream became too tempting. We’d only had a small evening meal and hubby was talking about cooking our breakfast tomorrow as supper tonight. So I had the bright idea of pulling a tub of chocolate icecream out of the freezer. Not healthy or good. But it tasted lovely.

The only way I can lose weight is not to buy nice things. I have to really restrain myself. A first world problem. People in most of the world wouldn’t even know what icecream is. Its an example of greed I guess. We can grow huge because we are sold empty calories. Sugar and fat in a delightful combination. And people starve. It’s a stark reality that there are too many have nots compared with those that have….. Yes I do feel guilty. Yes I should not be greedy. No I don’t have any real excuse. I was lucky to be born in a rich first world country. That should not stop me trying to help others and change my attitudes for the better.

Cat b and b

Posted on April 25, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed and breakfast, Black and white cat, Cat, drinking, Eating, Life, looked after, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat1 Comment

That’s what we are for our outdoor cat. He sleeps all night then grabs his breakfast and rushes out of the door around dawn. Sometimes he stays in for longer. He has the best of both worlds, freedom to roam and warmth and food when he wants it. I’m not sure what will happen if we ever go on holiday.

He eats as much as he wants, drinks what he wants, sleeps where he wants. Lucky cat!

He comes home when I whistle

Posted on December 30, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cold, Eating, Fun, In the garden, Life, Love, Mooching, Outdoor cat, Sleeping on the bed, Whistle, WinterLeave a comment

The outdoor cat is now more of an outside cat. I call his name (he remains anonymous here) and whistle him and he comes in. I have to wait a few minutes while he mooches round the garden. He woke me up this morning by lying on me in bed for a cuddle, then up he got and slipped downstairs. I followed to let him out ( my indoor cats) also anonymous, have been out a couple of times but end up hiding under garden benches. They are a lot smaller and I think would get picked on by the ginger Tom who also patrols our garden.

After half an hour and a decaff coffee to warm me up, I whistled him about three times and he came back in from the cold and dark. He’s eating biscuits at the moment, having his fill. Next? He might go out to mooch again, but I hope he stays in.

By the way, I don’t know how many people whistle their cats, but it seems to carry better. I’ve done it since I was a child I developed some notes along the line of a ‘cat where are you?’ tune….ah he’s gone back upstairs…. Bye

Belgian chocolates

Posted on December 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chocolate, Christmas, Eating, Food, Milk tray, Photo, Romance, Sugar, Tasty, Treat2 Comments

Oh no! Hubby bought chocolates for Christmas, a big box…. But then we decided to open them. I’ve had five and feel really guilty and a bit ill. Hubby’s eaten about ten! We should not do this. It’s not healthy. But I couldn’t resist the sweet and smooth flavours of them. I’m going to put them in the back of a cupboard so they can be enjoyed next week with our coffee.

When I was a child there used to be adverts of a man scaling a wall in the dark, climbing through a window and leaving a box of chocolates with a card… Not sure but I think it had the man’s silhouette on it? The tag line was ‘and all because the lady loves milk tray’. Chocolates were romantic in those days, not the cause of diabetes!

🌰 Chesnuts

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bang!, Chesnuts, Christmas, Cooking, Eating, Food, Heat, Memory, Oven, Snack, Superheated2 Comments

Memory from seven years ago on Facebook. Hubby decided to bake some Chestnuts- but they were not cooked so he put them back in the oven- 10 minutes later- BANG! One had exploded, he was shouting ow- so I came down to find him taking the roasting dish out of the oven- and using my jumper as an oven glove, he proceeded to try and break them open first with the garlic press, then with the nutcrackers- the chestnut did not pop- it exploded all over the work surface, I grabbed some kitchen towel and we used that to wrap the superheated chestnuts to break them open….

Cygnet

Posted on November 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baby swan, Bird, Bird food, Canal, Cygnet, Eating, Etruria, Food, Stoke-on-Trent, Trent and merseyLeave a comment

This cygnet came over to see us while we were by the canal today. Sadly I had nothing to feed it. If I had thought I would have taken some brown bread. You are really supposed to feed them grain, but signs went up a few years ago saying don’t feed birds bread and some birds starved in the winter. I think the important thing is to give birds small bits of bread, if it’s big lums it can swell up in their crops and clog them up, also I guess it might be better if it’s a bit wet? Not sure, but as long as its not mouldy….Next time we visit I will take some bread x

Off to collect

Posted on November 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eating, Food, Life, papaya, Restaurant, Take away, Tasty, ThaiLeave a comment

A Thai curry.

The restaurant we go to is closed to customers inside but they are doing a takeaway service. The food is always lovely and tonight I’m collecting some papaya salad. And some lamb curry. Tasty

Fruit

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dessert, Eating, Food, Fruit, Humour, Juicy, Photo, Pineapple, Poem, Poetry, Succulent, Sweet, Tasty, YellowLeave a comment

That pineapples looking sad,

Spotted leaves are wilting

It looks like it’s ripened

I must carve its flesh

Before it’s too late

Sweet yellow and sharp

Shall we have custard or cream?

Or just plain and succulent?

Last time we had one..

Ten years. Fifteen

Really..

Looking forward to it.

But is the pineapple?

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt, old.

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Eating, Face, Food, Hubby, Ink, Kept moving, Pattern, Permanent markers, Picture, Portrait, Tea4 Comments

My hubby, forty years together and we are both getting old. Various marker pens on cartridge paper. He didn’t keep still or I would have done a better job on it. I’ve bought a few more permanent marker pens. Some are OK, but some seriously smell of something like acetone? I used a silver pen to try and add grey to his hair and reflections/highlights on his face.

Mallaband-Brown

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