Penkhull flowers

Posted on May 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bad poetry, Flowers, Fun, Green, Humour, Penkhull, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, WhiteLeave a comment

Pink green and white

Garden delight

Found on our walk

Flowers on their stalk

Intermingled pink and green

And white, glowing, clean

Really bad poem?

Better get going!

Cat in a bag

Posted on May 17, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, carrier bag, Cat, caving, Exploring, Humour, Photo, speleology, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Like all great speleologists my cat likes exploring tight and small spaces. For instance she found a pack of felt pens in this bag.

Her caving experience also includes behind the bathroom sink pedestal, under the washing on the laundry airer, and underneath my hubby’s overcoat where it touches the floor. She will lie in wait, or extend a paw quietly to catch her brother as he is passing. A miniature lion in her den.

A is for

Posted on May 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A, Alphabet, Apple, Art, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Letters, Life, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Avocado?

No…

Aubergine

Aardvark?

Maybe

Alpha Centauri

Er…

August

Not yet…

Aniseptics

Not quite..

Autumn

Now that’s silly!

Argonaut

Yeah right

What then

Apple!

Purple

Posted on April 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Age, Art, Blue, Doodle, Fun, Hue, Humour, Life, Old, Poem, Poetry, Purple, violet2 Comments

Shall I colour my hair purple?

Shall I cover the grey?

Replace the silver with a violet hue,

Like old ladies

Have their hair coloured blue?

Doodle an idea,

Just to see

But the drawing

Looks nothing like me!

Fork handles or Four candles?

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, fork handles, four candles, Fun, Humour, Letters, Sketching, two Ronnie's, Words2 Comments

Just found this old drawing, I was playing with words. There is a comedy sketch by a duo in the 1970’s. It’s a bit like Monty Pythons dead parrot sketch in that it is a classic British comedy sketch. This one was by the Two Ronnie’s (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett). In it one of them goes into a shop and asks for various objects and the other one brings things out that sound the same but are different. Hence the ‘four candles /fork handles joke.

Anyway that’s what the writing on this is about. I think I was trying to mimic graffiti.

The cat comes knocking…

Posted on March 30, 2021April 6, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Blank verse, Cat, Cat flap, Humour, knock knock, let him in, let him out, Life, Poem, Poetry, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Knock knock!

Bash the cat flap

So it rattles

Let me in!

Ouside cat

Wants in

But won’t come through

The cat flap.

I let him in..

He eats..

Then yowl!

He wants out.

No the cat flap

Is only set to open

Inwards…

I let him out

Ten minutes later..

Knock knock!

Cheeky cat!

Who owns who?

Goose fight

Posted on March 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Canal, Cauldon canal, Fun, Geese, Goose, Humour, Layout app, Mirrored, Trent and mersey canalLeave a comment

Goose fight at the OK canal..

Looking at each other, staring each other out, which will be quickest to peck? Ramming speed… In the canal, under the eaves of the old pottery.

By mirroring the image of the goose I hoped to create a humorous image, and the title just jumped into my mind….

She’s got a good stare!

Posted on March 20, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cat, Fun, Humour, hypnotic, in her power, Paws, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Staring, Stretching, wide eyed2 Comments

Unblinking, bright eyed.

She knows what she wants..

Love

Food

Safety.

She will stare

And stare

Hypnotically

Till she melts your heart.

What do you want?

You ask, gently..

She stands,

Stretches

Reaches out her paws

Puts her paws on your knees

And claws holes in them!

Imagined characters

Posted on March 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animals, Art, Characters, Design, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Illustration, Imagination, Plants, Sketching, Surreal, ViewLeave a comment

We had to imagine some characters to add to an illustration so I drew these. I’m not sure whether they are OK. I did a large face so it comes forward in the image, a genie that eminates from the gas fire in the illustration and a fairy just taking in the view…

The resulting image is quite strange, with added fix, owl, horse, bug and cat. Then I added some flowers and plants..

Bad photos so I used filters on my phone then Instagram to bring out the colours, I need to find a way of taking pictures without shadows and glare on the page….

My phone is full!

Posted on March 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged can't let go, Humour, Life, Lost, Memories, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Sad, ThoughtLeave a comment

My phone is full

The woman said

It’s full of dreams

And other stuff..

Of melodies

And games

And names

Conversations

I can’t leave.

My pictures are

My memories!