Dorothy Clive garden

Posted on May 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bloom, Dorothy Clive garden, Flowers, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Life, Rhododendrons, Snow, VisitLeave a comment

Wondrous garden in the countryside on the borders of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire. In Willowbridge I think? Every spring my hubby and I would go to see the rhododendrons in flower in the Quarry garden, sometimes they were fully in bloom, other years the blooms hadn’t opened or were going over. Today they were perfect. I just wish my hubby was here still to see them. I’d been to the hospital for more tests so this was a treat for my sister who had come with me. She held onto me on the steeper slopes. Today it was very blustery and overcast with a cold wind but at least it wasn’t snowing like it had been in some previous years.

Identifit?

Posted on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, incollage app, Sketching, Stylus5 Comments

Trying to line up the features I have been drawing recently. Looks like an identifit photo! The nose and mouth were a bit big so I had to shrink them down, I used my incollage app on my phone to line the images up.

Strange witch sculpture

Posted on April 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, cape, fairy land, Fun, greenery, Group, hot glue, Sculpture, sticks, WitchLeave a comment

I made this at an art group today. It’s quite odd but we had dried leaves and twigs and bits of greenery and wool. The black curved piece at the back is a large dried leaf meant to be a cape. I thought the piece of wood looked like a face and body, the two forward sticks are meant to be arms, one is holding a stick. The blue wool round the base is meant to be water which witches are not supposed to be able to cross. The greenery is meant to be being whipped about by her forceful spells.

We were making Faery related objects for an art project and walk that is on tomorrow at Spode there were lots of other objects being made. Most of them held together by hot glue.

Three cats together

Posted on April 16, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, cuddle, Fun, Happy, Poem, Poetry, three cats, Tuxedo cat1 Comment

An unexpected coming together

A grouping of cats

A bundle of fluffy foofs

Cats enjoying warmth

Cuddled happiness

It doesn’t happen often.

But they are happy….

Make up

Posted on April 14, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Blue, Colourful, Drawing, Fun, glow up, Makeup, Sketching, TV programmeLeave a comment

I’m just watching a TV programme called “glow up” about creative makeup artists. I decided to experiment and create my own “look”. It’s just a digital drawing in Artrage using metallic and non metallic colours. I wasn’t bothered about making it pretty. I was just playing with it.

Cats

Posted on April 6, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1900, Fun, plus and minus, Poem, Poetry, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

What animals make the best/worst pets?

Cats are fun

Cats are free spirits

Sometimes they love you

Sometimes they fight you

They won’t take tablets

They will eat your food

If you turn your back

If you leave a morsel

Will steal your chair

Will hide in mysterious places

Appearing at odd times

Appearing when you least expect it

Get lost when they are due at the vets

Get tangled up in your feet

Have their means of communicating

Have to have their own way!

Gymnastics

Posted on April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged athletic, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1898, flexible, Fun, gymnastics, Life, Olympics, Strength, turn, TV, TwistLeave a comment

What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?

Watching gymnastics over the years reminds me of Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci with their virtually perfect performances at the Olympics. Oh how I wished I could twist and turn my body like them! My abilities were more along the lines of running and cycling. But I always to watched them on TV and I have continued to follow the gymnastics ever since.

It’s not just the female gymnasts, the men are brilliant too. The competitions are different, with apparatus based on the physiques of the male and female body. Balance, poise, strength and flexibility all are important to these athletes.

Looking forward to Paris 2024.

Yellow

Posted on April 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Colourful, Drawing, Fun, Sketching, Uranium glass, YellowLeave a comment

Yellow vase, imagined drawing in Artrage app. My mom used to collect vases made out of Uranium glass. It’s called that because it uses Uranium to colour the glass. It can glow in he dark I think? It’s usually a cloudy greenish yellow. #bandofsketchers prompt was yellow.

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!

Mallaband-Brown

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