April fools day

Posted on April 1, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Fun, Funny, Humbolt Penguins, Leek, Memories, Peak Wildlife Park, Penguins, programmes, Staffordshire, TV, Winkhill3 Comments

The Peak Wildlife Park posted a prank on Facebook today. It reported that some of their Humbolt Penguins had taken flight today and if anyone saw one or found them in their garden they should report it to the park (to check their migratory habits?).

Of course Penguins don’t fly, (and they don’t migrate either as far as I know, but I added that bit), so it was obviously an April Fools joke, but it’s nice and gentle, not rude or unkind. I remember an old one on TV when they reported that the spaghetti trees were being harvested and another one on a children’s TV programme about dehydrated water!

I haven’t seen many jokes today but I liked one about flat pack Easter eggs from IKEA, (chocolate bars), may your April Fools day be fun!

Peak Wildlife Park is at Winkhill, Leek ST13 7QR, UK. Details can be found on Google.

Shot in the dark?

Posted on March 22, 2024March 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged athletes, Competition, Fun, fundraising, Life, Quiz, quizzing, special OlympicsLeave a comment

Just back from a quiz

I’ve just been out to a fundraising evening that was to support athletes who will be competing in the Special Olympics for the United kingdom.

It was fun, with cryptic questions to identify local place names “angry bird” was Heron Cross for instance.

The most difficult one was a percentage guessing game. These were the set called “a shot in the dark” . One question was what percentage of people of the Earth’s Population has ever been on a plane? I think the answer was 6%? There was a lot of debate in our team. You could get 3 points if you got the exact answer and 1 if you came within 5%. We did quite well and our team came third which for a group of strangers was pretty good.

I really enjoyed it and I’d like to do it again. I’d forgotten how much I like quizzes and how competitive I can be!

Spend more time with my cats

Posted on March 21, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1884, Fun, high jinks, Humour, Memory, Morning, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Time, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

What do you wish you could do more every day?

Get up in the morning with my cats

They are running around like bats

I mean silly rushing

Each one pushing

The boundaries of reason

But it’s the spring season

Jumping about then resting

And they’re always questing

To find a nook and cranny

To hide in like a canny

Cat, ready to pounce

Or at least flounce

Off in a huff

Which can be rough

To their friendly mate

Who’s left in a state

Of shock

After a sock

In the face with a paw

When they were calm before

Getting all het up

When they meet up

On the bed

They sort of see red

And chase

Yes that’s the case!

Hi jinks

When a claw sinks

In your nose

But it’s fun I suppose!

Treat

Posted on March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, Fun, Ice cream, Life, quarter, Restaurant, Spode, Stoke-on trent, Tea, TreatLeave a comment

Ice-cream Sundae at the Quarter restaurant at the Spode Site, Stoke on Trent today. I have to say this was a huge amount of ice cream. I felt really naughty, but I’d had some good news so I treated myself to it.

I’d called in at my studio to collect paintings that sold during my Retrospective exhibition. I’d met up with a friend and we decided to go for tea. It was lovely to see her and to chat for a couple of hours. It had been a few months since we last got together and it was good just to have a laugh for a change. Things have been difficult but I just had a glimmer of hope today.

Eccentric?

Posted on March 19, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Bee, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1882, Description, Eccentric, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Mad, Poetry, Short poemLeave a comment

What is one word that describes you?

I decided to use the form of a limerick poem to describe the one word ‘eccentric’ that I have chosen for myself. The painting is of me as a green woman…

I’m rather eccentric, that’s me

I prefer that to ‘mad’ you see

I love paint and mess

With nothing to stress

And my mind is a buzz, like a bee!

Cat on the bath

Posted on March 14, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bathroom, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Life, Poem, Poetry, splish splash, Tuxedo cat, WaterLeave a comment

Coming into the bathroom

You always want to know

What I’m doing.

Paws dip into the water

From the tap

A delicate splish splash…

Lick paw and return

To the gentle trickle

Silver sparkle

Nose wet

You saunter off..

Pinned down

Posted on March 10, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged bed covers, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Life, Pinned down, Sleeping, Snoring, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

A year ago my cat had pinned me down on the bed! I didn’t usually have my phone with me but on this occasion the stars aligned and as I woke up, stuck, I decided to take her photo. Nowadays she sneaks under the covers next to me. She will maybe stay still for ten minutes, sticking her claws in me as she kneads away at my leg or side. Then, I think she must overheat, she will rush out and escape. One of the other cats sleeps above the cover and gently snores. If they see each other they sometimes hiss at each other, but generally they are chilled about things.

Blue bird

Posted on March 10, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, blue bird, Digital drawing, Doodle, Experiment, Fun, Imagined, Life, SketchLeave a comment

A strange little doodle of a blue coloured bird, just experimental play with the Artrage app. It not exactly exciting, I just wanted to try an get an idea down of what a bird would look like. I’ve got several criticisms, the neck is probably too short, the tail too long and basically the colour is far too bright. It’s like the bird has had a can of paint poured over it! But I’ll call it done.

Exhibition was lovely

Posted on March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Anxiety, Fine Art, Fun, Life, Oil on board, Painting, retrospective, Spode, thanks4 Comments

Lots of friends came to my exhibition and it was lovely to see them. I’d taken a box of wine and some orange juice and I really was scared that no one would come. It’s strange how anxiety can affect you, but I shouldn’t have worried. I think its like a performance anxiety, stage fright, having to talk about your work, explain the thought behind it. I luckily knew most of the people there so I didn’t need to panic!

The exhibition is on for another week so I should be able to show more people round during the week. X

Losing my marbles

Posted on March 7, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Artist, Bowls, button, Collection, dusty, Fun, Glass, Life, Magpie, Marbles, MemoryLeave a comment

I collect all sorts of things, and today I remembered I have a bowl made of buttons glued together, inside it is my marble collection. I need to clear the bowl out, it’s very dusty and some of the leaves from the plant above it have fallen in over the winter. I can’t wash it because it’s held together with PVA glue. I’m going to remove the marbles, (hopefully without losing them), wash them and dry them then put them back in the bowl.

So why am I writing about this? I guess it’s just that I collect all sorts of things, perhaps I should get rid of things? Maybe it’s a trait about being an artist, gathering shiny objects. I guess I’m a bit of a Magpie.

Mallaband-Brown

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