Cold day

Posted on November 10, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blue sky, Central heating, Chilly, Cold, Grey clouds, Home, Warmth, Weather, Window2 Comments

Reflected in the car window bue sky and grey cloud. The air is chilled and breezy, a little plastic windmill with curled coloured sails spins in the wind. I don’t want to go out, I’m staying in and keeping warm.

Cold air is circulating near my feet, warm air rises, so it can take a while for it to descend and fill the room. Having cats popping in and out, that can’t close the door behind themselves doesn’t help.

It’s fearful to wonder what the bills will be like this winter. Fuel costs have apparently come down, but not for customers. I guess it’s good in one way because it reduces how much power we are using. But that means extra layers of clothes, in my case a tee shirt jumper and a cardigan. But it’s no hardship compared with being homeless in winter. A “Lifestyle choice” according to our Home Secretary, what an uncaring attitude.

Cloudscape

Posted on November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blue, Clouds, Grey clouds, Life, Memory, Photo, Rain, scudding, shower clouds, Showers, Sky, white clouds2 Comments

I love piled up clouds, dark and threatening, but with bright white patches, and blue sky (enough to make a sailors britches). You know a heavy shower is on the way, but it won’t last long, and the sun will be shining again.

When I used to walk to school I would chase the shadows of clouds. They would drift along the pavement like lapping waves. I don’t seem to see them any more? Maybe their edges are too fluffy. Or they don’t scud past anymore? Has the, weather changed in the last fifty years…?

Oorie?

Posted on January 7, 2022January 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Cold wind, definition, Fun, Grey clouds, Hail, Ice, oorie, Thinking, Time, WordLeave a comment

It was an Oorie day, the sky was full of dark grey, shifting clouds. A cold wind blew from the North East. Hail started to fall, bouncing off roofs and into gutters. The roads and pavements were slippery with the icy white mass of hail. It crunched underfoot. But it was melting quickly and rivulets of ice and water ran down the road into the grids by the pavement.

It’s hard to describe an ‘oorie’ day, even though I’ve just walked home in one. I saw the word on a friends page where she was writing a piece using the word as a prompt. That’s why I looked it up, I’ve never come across it before and doubt I will use it again.

In the sky

Posted on December 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Duplicated, Foliage, Grey clouds, Layout app, Mirrored, Photo, Poem, Poetry, SkyLeave a comment

Green

Floating

Upwards

Amid grey billows.

Like green dragons

Frogs

Or flattened chickens.

Strange creatures

Caught in a net of cloud…

Today’s prompt is Sky

Posted on November 19, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Dawn, East, Garden, Grey clouds, Holly, Sky, View, Walnut, Weather, Willow2 Comments

Got up just before 7 to draw a magnificent dawn? It was still gloomy when I started and because of the low cloud it got lighter, but no sign of the sun!

This is the view east of the house. Willow Bush still in leaf but turning yellow, beyond that the rooves of the shops on the main road and the skeleton of a new building that stopped growing in March. The telephone pole, the Walnut tree we planted twenty five years ago and a Holly Bush below the willow. Used a calligraphy black ink pen and Spectrum Noir metallic coloured pencils. Took about twenty minutes in semi darkness.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Grey clouds