Words

Posted on July 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Books, Fun, Humour, Learning, Life, Playing, School, WordsLeave a comment

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Do you find yourself thinking of a word that just pops into your mind? I thought of a few today. Gestalt, Normality and Defunct all jumped into my head today.

Another day it could be crumble, grunge or fanciful, which is probably what this is.

I think I need sleep when I can dream of words chasing each other through the sky and over hills. Trundling into the sunset where they burst into brilliant petals.

Words are fun, they need using or abusing, but they definitely can make life interesting, exuberant and startling!

Papier-mache pot

Posted on July 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Clay, Design, Fun, Papier mache, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, PropLeave a comment

In the play we are doing this weekend my partner has to pretend to throw a pot on a wheel. We don’t want anything big, heavy or breakable, so I’m Papier-macheing a black plastic flowerpot. I had to buy some pva glue but only wanted just enough, not a great big tub or a tiny bottle. So instead of the adult craft section I found a bottle of clear pva in the children’s section at a craft shop.

Got home and started ripping up newspaper. This is many layers later, I’ve added a few layers about two thirds up to give it a slight bulge. When it’s dry I will paint it white as a base coat then a pale brown “clay” colour with shading to make it look hand thrown. I’m hoping it will look reasonably realistic.

When I was forty

Posted on July 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Forty, Fun, Memory, Painting, self portraitLeave a comment

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I did this self portrait. I don’t do many and haven’t done one recently. Maybe I should. At this time I had the front bedroom as a studio, until we got too much stuff and I moved my painting stuff out. My tee shirt was a recycling one but I haven’t seen it for years. I’m not sure what I think about this, but it’s another Facebook memory. It’s a bit blurred. I still have the original upstairs, will have to find it out.. Almost twenty years later.

Mystery Music

Posted on July 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Accompanying music, Boatband, Clay Chorus, Free event, Fun, Life, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, What's on in StaffordshireLeave a comment

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Where would the mystery play be without the music. This year as always provided by the brilliant Boatband and Clay Chorus choir.

I don’t want to give away the music or plot too much. But the singing covers dramatic action in the play. I know Clay have been learning the songs for a couple of months now and there are some poignant pieces to illustrate the conditions in the first half of the nineteenth century. We don’t realise just how much things have improved for both adults and children.

I think the audience are in for a treat this year if we all keep our cool and get it right.

Panto hat

Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Costume, Design, Fun, Life, Painted hat, Panto, Papier mache, Willow patternLeave a comment

FB_IMG_1562500702303 this was a papier mache hat that I painted with a willow pattern design for our Pantomime ‘Aladdin’ . It was used as part of widow twanky’s costume a few years ago. I have forgotten a lot of things I did. I guess there is more somewhere. This picture is from Facebook memories.

Last year’s scenery

Posted on July 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Acrylic on hardboard, Art, Fun, Life, Painting, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Scenery, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

FB_IMG_1562490907053 this is the scenery I painted last year. Two eight by four boards attached together to make an eight foot square panel.

In some ways painting on calico is more difficult because of the way the paint sits on it. However at least I’m not struggling to line up the two sections. I do love doing this. It makes my year.

Kaleidoscopic

Posted on July 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Colour, Fun, Kaleidoscopic, Learning, PatternLeave a comment

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I like this word, kaleidoscopic, I can’t always spell it but it’s something I remember as a child’s toy. A tube you rotate and glass or plastic pieces fall in an enclosed end of the tube so that when you look through the eyepiece they change patterns. The inside of the rest of the tube has mirrors along the length of it so the image is split into sections like a sliced up pie.

It’s difficult to try and explain exactly how it works without taking one apart but you get beautiful patterns similar to the image above (this is just some patterned cloth).

Let me sniff your hand hooman.

Posted on July 4, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Fun, Funny, Happy, Humour, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, SmellLeave a comment

I smell your hand hooman

It sniffs of coffee and paint

Of lavender and cut grass.

It smells of sausages and chips

Salt and vinegar.

Your hooman hand is warm

And soft.

Your hooman hand gives me

Food and water.

It strokes my belly

My nose and head.

You are my hooman

And I own you!

Ello?!

Posted on July 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dialect?, Fun, Humour, Imagined words, Playing with words, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

IMG_20190702_020515_158 ello, ow art yow?

I’m reet tired duck.

Why’s that my dear Mon?

Been down’t farm t’feed heffers

Check t’ ducks ‘n’ chuckhens

Made some chayse,

Layd a hedge

Milked t’owd goat

Brought in’t corn,

Flailed t’ barley

walked ower t’ orchard

Brung sum coookin apples owm.

Made a napple pye fer tea.

Then strode down tut pub

fer a pint of scrumpy cyder.

Drank tow much

Cayme owm legliss

Fell ower.

Slept in’t oss trough.

But I’m fine.

Zombie cat

Posted on July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Comedy horror, Fun, Humour, Micro tale, Short story, Very short story, ZombieLeave a comment

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His figure appeared in the doorway, upright, paws out, head tilted to one side. A zombie cat? Lurching towards her out of the dark. Not the sprightly pounce and jump, but a shambling gait past the books on the landing. She thought of running past him out of the bedroom, but he was to tall to jump over and she would have fallen down the stairs. Instead she backed away and stood on the old armchair. He stumbled as he entered the room, sounding a vicious growl as his back paws twisted sideways. She lept from the chair, caught the handrail and ran and jumped downstairs….

She hadn’t considered there might be zombie mice in the lounge

…..

Mallaband-Brown

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