I’m miles being doing sketching prompts and this is five weeks late!
The #bandofsketchers prompt was crow, i drew a cartoon crow today. It’s asking why it’s legs are short. It’s because I drew the rest of it too big!
#bandofsketchers prompt crow
Tag: Funny
Cat sneeze!
Purr-atchoo!
Caught mid sneeze
Made me laugh
What a wheeze!
She’s only little
Sneezed three times!
Fast as a flash
From my camera
Sweet, neat, cute.
Dragon/ Chamelion
I painted a dragons eye on Saturday and found someone at the craft fair I was at on Sunday was crocheting karma Chamelions. Weirdly the eyes seem to match! How odd. I’m not sure why I bought the soft toy, it might go to a neice. I was so pleased I thought I’d take a photo of them together. X
Anecdote on wiper blades
My windscreen wiper motor broke down on the way back from Birmingham once, so we titd a string to one wiper, put it through the driver and passenger windows and tied it to the other wiper, We got cold and wet but at least I could see what was going on. Hubby pulled the string side to side while I drove! We got some peculiar looks on the way home! Especially when we stopped at traffic lights… People were laughing at us!
I remembered this after reading about the woman from America who invented windscreen wipers in the 1890s after seeing a tram driver struggling to see the road through his window in a snowstorm in New York.
A hero’s name?
I think we mainly assume that a hero will be called Prince Caspian or something similar. Being of noble blood, and handsome. Fairytale books and films lead us to this definition. Only stories like Beauty and the Beast where at the end the Beast turns into a handsome Prince slightly subverts this.
But what happens if the hero has an ordinary or odd name? Maybe Euphonio Grunt-Ffungus? His name being a long lost memory from generations ago of the families profession of truffle hunting!
What heroical task would Euphonio complete? Would he rescue a cat from on top of a giraffe? Fight off a venomous kangaroo? Hide chocolate from a dragon? Kill a giant spider that’s threatening to engulf the palace?
I think this kind of hero would be in a comic fantasy, not a serious story. But we cannot chose our names, let alone our ancestors.
Cats
Dogs or cats?
Cats are very loving, except when they give you the cold shoulder! They are aloof but also demanding. They can be funny.
One advantage, you don’t have to take them for a walk, just install a catflap!
They can be cheeky, friendly, mad, crazy, and run about so fast they are like miniature cheetahs!
They like company, and will try and get your attention when you least expect it. Walking over your keyboard and flopping down just as you get to that important clause in the contract you were writing.
By the way I still like dogs, but I’ve grown up with cats and I love them.
Who’s coming to dinner?
If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?
I’d like to invite Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman.
I don’t know if I would be able to understand any conversation between them. But I have noticed that the three men seemed to have funny senses of humour. The two I know most about were Feynman (one of his books is Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman) and Sagan (who wrote Cosmos and Contact among other books).
All of them were interesting people and I hope they would take pity on my lack of knowledge of Physics and the other sciences. Maybe it would be a difficult meal to host. I would research the food they liked and try and replicate it, but I would have to be careful not to cause them stomach problems!
Anyway it’s never going to happen. Fun imagining the guest list though.
Stolen from Facebook
I loved these weird images of cats on this post on Facebook. It’s too funny not to share. It might disappear in a few weeks because I don’t have enough memory for all the images I use and regularly delete photos when I get a media full message.
Esther’s limerick challenge. Luck
Every week Esther Chilton posts a limerick challenge. This week’s Monday limerick word was “luck”.
Sometimes these are easy, other times hard. This week’s wasn’t bad.
Basically a limerick has two rhyming lines of a longish length, then two shorter ones that rhyme using a different pattern and then finally the last line is longer and goes back to the first type of rhyme. Have a go yourself on Esthers page?
My limerick is :
Finally I have had some good luck,
I found lots of gold in a truck,
it was hidden away,
in an old parking bay,
at the home of the Pirate called “Hook”!
Metallic eye?
I’ve jut tried to alter the drawing of a gold bangle I drew for another post. I’ve smudged the outside and added white to the centre then a blue pupil with white highlights. I also rotated the image by 90°.
I’ve ended up with an eye apparently floating in space. Perhaps I should add stars?
Mallaband-Brown 