Parking

Posted on May 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Cars, Council, Difficult, Email, frustration, Internet, Life, Parking2 Comments

I just realised my parking pass is due to expire and I’ve only just realised it. In the past out council used to send out a reminder. No more. They have closed the building where you could apply for them in person. Now the choice is either via email, or by post.

The postal service only has a 74% next day delivery rate, and there is no assurance that it will arrive in time.

My email is not working yet. I’m booked to get it done on Monday (long boring story, the repair man has been ill). But not everyone has email addresses. Not everyone with a car is online.

So I rang up for the address to send my information to. It’s a PO box, meaning there is no physical place for me to hand deliver my documents to. If it goes to a PO box, then the council courier service needs to sort the mail and deliver it, meaning there is another time delay added into the mix!

Better get my email sorted out!

Too much!

Posted on April 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1914, follows, Internet, Life, likes, sites, Social media, user16 Comments

How do you use social media?

I’m online too much. On various sites. It’s hard not to post similar things on three or four sites. It’s also about the likes and follows that you get. I think its to do with dopamine, you get a buzz from posting and if your phone isn’t in your hand you feel lost!

I think I should make myself use my computer instead. It would force me to go upstairs and do my work up there. It might limit how long I stay on line?

I also need to get outside more. I’m sure I don’t get enough vitamin D. Personally I would use the phone less if I wasn’t connected to the Internet.

So I’m talking about NOT using social media. Perhaps that’s what I really need to consider. Less use, not more!

Being pestered on Instagram

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital, dodgy, Instagram, Internet, Life, NFTs, non fungible, proposal, Suspicious2 Comments

A comment on my Instagram photo of my cat offers me the opportunity to sell my work as NFTs. I know NF stands for Non Fungible (transactions?). I noticed that a friend of mine has had a similar proposal offered to her. I immediately got that sinking feeling that this is dodgy. My images are covered by my copyright, but what happens if you start selling digital images. Aren’t they sold via crypto currency? How is it converted into something tangible. My art is OK but I wouldn’t say it was exceptional. Isn’t this just a bit of ego polishing? Like vanity publishing, and who gets any profit. I have friends who were going to set up an NFT gallery with a lot of friends art last year, but after a while I didn’t hear anything more. But the thing that really put me off was the silly Trump NFTs which were sold for masses of money, but almost instantly crashed a few weeks later. Until the whole thing is regularised I won’t touch it with a barge pole!

scrolling

Posted on February 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged addicted, Computer, Facebook, Internet, Life, pages, Poem, Poetry, scrolling, ThinkingLeave a comment

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Oh I keep scrolling down the page

Facebook posts are all the rage

Never ending thoughts and hopes

I don’t know how anyone copes!

Addicted to that vertical scrolling

Dragging my eyes, they keep rolling!

Bits and bobs, this and that

Someone’s thin someone’s fat.

A work of fiction or of fact

But intelligent thinking is what’s lacked?

Sometimes serious causes emerge

But often it’s just a tawdry surge

Of endorphins keeping me awake

Switch it off. For goodness sake!

Churn

Posted on September 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, churn, Drawing, Felt pens, Images, Internet, Life, Plants, Sketching, tractor tyre, vegetationLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Rustic. What to draw for this? I looked up milk churn and tractor tyre on the Internet. I have drawn a churn based on one of the images, but not a direct copy and a part of a tractor wheel from another picture. The vegetation is imagined. Felt pen drawing.

Shingles

Posted on August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ache, chickenpox, Herpes Zoster, Ill, Illness, Internet, lower back, Pain, shingles, Tired6 Comments

No, not the sort that you find on a beach. The one caused by having chickenpox. It can come back as shingles in later life…..

Hubby is due his vaccination against it which is great, but I’ve had an aching lower back for a week. It hurt even more last night, each time I tried to get comfortable I got shooting pains in my back and leg. My hubby had noticed a rash of blistery spots in a line on my lower back, just on one side. Suddenly it occurred to me this might be shingles. I looked it up and found an image that seemed similar to what I have. Luckily I got a doctors appointment and they decided it was a mild case so I’ve got some tablets that should calm it down. They used to say if your shingles met in the middle you would be very ill (not sure how bad or how they could), I’m thankful it’s not too bad.

Small photo, incase you are eating your tea. Not my shingles. An Internet view.

Put the phone down.

Posted on May 9, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged encapsulated, freedom, haptic, hectic, Internet, Life, Messages, Phone, Poem, Poetry, Thinking, TrappedLeave a comment

Interactive, haptic

Hectic, internetted

Encapsulated, held

Bells and whistles

Too connected!

Now my projects done

I’m having fun

But it’s to seductive

All those screens

You and him and me

Chatting and liking

Dose of dopamine

Eyes go funny

Arm aches

Fingers droop

But still I type.

Put the phone down

Disconnect…..

Freedom!

Staffordshire Oatcakes

Posted on August 20, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flour, Food, historic, Internet, Oatcakes, Oats, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Yeast3 Comments

I just found this on the Internet when I was trying to describe Staffordshire Oatcakes.

A local artist, Arthur Berry, wrote an ode to the Oatcake. Likening it to pancakes, tortillas, chipatis, all sorts of thin flat round things that you can wrap food in. In this case the main constituents are oats, flour and yeast.

Enjoy hot from the grill or microwave with cheers, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes. What ever you fancy. Also jam. Maybe even tofu?

Losing friends

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artist, Friendship, Gone, Internet, Loss, Memory, Passed away, Sad, Sadness, Thinking10 Comments

When you open up Facebook you don’t expect to hear that a friend has passed away. Someone who I admired. A good artist and a compassionate and sensitive man.

I guess I would rather find out than not know at all. Waiting to see if he would post new art, or a post about how he was feeling. He went missing for a couple of months about two years ago. He eventually turned up and everything turned out OK.

Now, I don’t know. I guess I’m glad I met him on a website and saw his art, he lived in a different country so we were never going to meet up. But that doesn’t matter, he was a very good artist and was a thoughtful person.

I lost another friend in a similar way last year. This was a woman from overseas. Another artist.

The internet allows people who would never normally meet to find each other. At least I’ve found out what has happened. Feeling very sad.

Singing on zoo….m

Posted on January 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Humour, Internet, Life, online, Poem, Poetry, Singing, ZoomLeave a comment

Singing on. Zoom

Out of tune

Don’t try singing

Together

You endup

Outof

Timewith

One

Other!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Internet