I’ve given up

Posted on November 3, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged authentification, deleted, Emails, Fed up, Junk, Life, Memories, Thinking, time managementLeave a comment

I gave up answering emails this week…

Too many notifications, not enough time. My email has been updated, but I don’t like it. Instead of being able to delete stuff I have to repeatedly swipe the messages to delete them. I get tired and bored, then annoyed with the process. Ugh

So I just got fed up. Plus my two part authentication keeps kicking in and I have to try eight or nine times before I can get let in….

Why do I keep the provider? Because I want to keep my email address. It’s been the same for years…

Oh well…

Shiny

Posted on October 27, 2026 Posted in Uncategorized, Sketching, MemoriesTagged Abstract, ArtRage app, Band of sketchers, Design, Life, Pattern, Prompt, Sketching, ToolsLeave a comment

A shiny abstract Artrage app drawing. I do love playing with the apps tools. Drawn in the band of sketchers Facebook page. It cheers me up to doodle.

More bread

Posted on October 19, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged air fryer, bakery, Bread, Cooking, Flour, Food, Friend, Ingredients, Life, recipes, Water, WhatsApp, Yeast1 Comment

My friend keeps WhatsApp-ing me photos of the daily bread he makes in his air fryer. I think its charming and he keeps changing his recipes. But he WhatsApp me photos of the bread every day. So my gallery looks like a bakery! I delete the pictures when I remember…. But it gets a bit clogged up sometimes….

I think it would be rude to ask him to stop, but I do wish they would stop piling up…

Sunsetting

Posted on October 17, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aging, Busy, Decisions, Health, Life, Memory, Plans, Sky, Sunset, Time, View, Work4 Comments

Oh my word, I have been so busy, and tired, this last week.

Days are getting shorter, but I’ve had to cram lots into them. I’ve got a gardener in to cut back the ivy that was getting up onto my roof. I’ve had treatment on my foot, which has had an infection for several weeks. I’ve had tests on my thyroid and I’m feeling sad because it’s the anniversary of several sad occasions.

Consequently I have spent a lot of time contemplating life and what I can do to improve things. I haven’t made a plan, and I don’t see my life sunsetting, but I have to learn what I can continue to do and what I might have to give up.

Anyway, I will try and get back here more often.

Darkening skies

Posted on October 7, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Darkness, Equinox, Life, Poem, Poetry, renewal, Six months, Spring, Time, turning year1 Comment

Autumn equinox looms

From then to next spring

Darkness grows, then fades again

The dark side of the year

In the North Hemisphere.

Meanwhile Southern lands

Warm and brighten

Taking the light

With them.

It’s just the wheel of the year

Turning.

Missing you

Posted on September 20, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged antibiotics, Foot, Infection, Life, Lonely, Me, Memory, Missing, Thinking, Toe, WordPress, World4 Comments

The world beckons but I am not well enough to go out into it. My infected foot continues to be a pain. Literally. I’m finding it harder to walk in the house, let alone outside and I know I’m not doing enough exercise.

I’m on another lot of antibiotics which I hope will be improve things soon. My main problem is SHOES, my toe hurts when I put them on so I’m struggling with an open toed pair of tatty slippers, not really wearable outside the house. Although I had to go to the doctors in them, I was embarrassed to wear them.

So, I’m not feeling my best and I’ve missed coming here the last few days. Finding other things to do because I don’t know what to write about. Moaning about manky toes isn’t the best is it?

Yes I am looking for sympathy!

Sweet potato

Posted on September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Baked, Cooking, Curry, Food, Ideas, Life, mash, Potato, savory, sweet potato2 Comments

I didn’t realise how tasty these tubers were. We always ate ordinary jacket potato’s and boiled or mashed ones, so it was a bit of a change.

But then someone suggested trying them because they have less carbohydrates and they also have fibre. Good if you have diabetes, and reduces sugar intake

They also go really well in curries. So if you haven’t tried them? See what you think. They get my vote. Easy to cook and really tasty.

Green eyes

Posted on September 6, 2026 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, boop, Cat, Eyes, Life, Love, olive green, Poem, Poetry, Purring, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Like olives

Shining ovals

Stare out at me

Boop

Purring…

Touch noses

Then a pounce

Onto the floor

Off on an adventure

Back later

For more

Movement

Posted on August 23, 2026August 23, 2026 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black pen and biro drawing on paper, Drawing, Horse, Horses, Life, Memory, School, sixpence, Sketching, TV programmes1 Comment

Movement was the prompt and it brought back memories of my childhood. I learnt to draw horses. They are such powerful and beautiful and intelligent creatures. I only occasionally saw them in real life as I lived in a town. But I had the book black beauty, and watched folly foot, a TV series about horses, and was always singing the theme tune to something else “on white horses”, plus champion the Wonder horse and the lone ranger.

It’s no wonder that I loved drawing horses from an early age. When I was a kid at school I used to draw horses over and over again. I even sold some to other kids in my class for sixpence. I loved drawing dappled greys. I was better at it then than now x

Miniatures

Posted on August 21, 2026 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Etruria Industrial museum, Fridge magnets, Life, miniature paintings, Painting, sale4 Comments

I have a few miniature paintings for sale at the Etruria Industrial museum. They are pictures I painted a few years ago that I had left over. If they don’t sell I could glue magnets on the back of them and varnish them to be used as fridge magnets.

I have a small painting someone gave me which has built in magnets, that’s where I got the idea from.

I want to try and do something because I feel like my art life is ending… And I don’t want it to.

Mallaband-Brown

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