Urban sketchers, on the roof.

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Stoke-on trent, Drawing, Sketching, Staffordshire, Urban Sketchers, Stoke, Fun, Life, Spode site, Pot bank Hotel, On the roof, View from aboveLeave a comment

I almost missed this today. We were invited up to the bridal suite in the Potbank Hotel to draw the views from the top room. The windows look out over the Spode factory roofs and beyond….

By the time I got there I was very late. I only had 45 minutes to draw. So I drew the view with the iconic Spode chimney first, looking out over Stoke Minster and part of the town hall. Then in the last 15 minutes I drew the cupola? of a building, its prominent as you look over Stoke. Turns out its an old co-op building. I only found out because as I was leaving I bumped into another urban sketcher who had not been able to get there in time. She had done research into what it was.

I might not have done as much as I wanted but it was fun. I would like to go back and do more.

Haunted bike light?

Posted on September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bike light, Flashing light, Fun, Haunted, Led's, Red, Short circuit, TechnologyLeave a comment

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It’s on again! My hubby shouted from the kitchen. He’d been outside to check round the garden, and found the back light of his bike was flashing. But he’d turned it off after he’d found it flashing earlier. It was one of those multi function lights with different patterns each time you press the button.

Well has anyone got into the garden? I asked. No one can get through the fence, and why would they want to switch a flashing rear light on. I don’t know, he said but I’ve switched it off.

The next night he was checking round the garden again. It’s on again! He said excitedly. Well it must be broken, bring it in. It’s probably got rain in it.

So last night I walked in the kitchen, it was on again. I pressed the button on the back. Eventually it switched off. We went out for an hour and when we came back it was on again!

I know what to do. So I opened it up and loosened the battery, then I put the front lens back in place. As I went to walk away the lens popped off and landed on the floor! It made me jump! The outcome? It’s in the bin!

Green Woman, self portrait..

Posted on September 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Portrait, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

I suppose it would happen. I decided to do a self portrait….. I seem to do them once in a decade. The last one was a drawing about ten years ago.

I’m not sure if painting myself as a Green woman will work, but hopefully it will compliment the portrait of my hubby as a Green man. I’m thinking of offering to do them as portraits for people who are interested in the pagan world.

I’ll share more as it progresses. X

Al**a play Blondie, Atomic

Posted on September 10, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Computer, Favourite tunes, Fun, Memories, Poem, Poetry, Short poem, TechnologyLeave a comment

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Al**a play this

Al**a play that,

Al**a lower volume

Favorite tunes

Let’s dance!

Play music

Jump around

Remembering the 80’s

Having fun

How we danced

Remembering a life

Now gone…

Sleeping cat

Posted on September 9, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Fun, Humour, Lying down, Micro poetry, Pillow, Poem, Poetry, SleepLeave a comment

I got up this morning,

Cat jumped up,

Fell asleep!

On the bed,

Where my head

Had been two minutes before.

What a cheek,

The cat out flat.

Asleep,

On the bed!

Watch out cat….

I might use you as a pillow!

Autumn flowers

Posted on September 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn colours, Autumn flowers, Firey leaves, Foliage, Fun, Plants, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trentham, Trentham GardensLeave a comment

And foliage. At Trentham Gardens, I love the colour combinations, yellows and purples, reds, oranges and greens. Really rusty beautiful sculptures are inserted into the borders to add to the joyous jumble. Giant bees jostle metal flowers, knopthalia (red hot poker plants) and crimson and variegated Coleus add their foliage flames to the fire. Makes you feel warm on a dreary day.

The letter Q.

Posted on September 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Humour, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Q, Quest, Questions, QuizLeave a comment

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Q, such a strange letter,

Comes after P, before R,

But it sounds like it should be

At the end, with Y and Z (zed or zee).

Quick, quiet, quad, Queen….

Why does it come with u?

Quest, quark, quince, quorum….

What does it mean to you?

Alpha, bet, questions.

Really quincunx, quintiles, quiescent, qualified…

It’s a quiz or a quest!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Fun