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.

Mom’s first car

Posted on August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Car, Life, low cc, Memory, Radiator, Robin reliant, small engine, Snow, three wheels1 Comment

Mom was the driver in our family. She drove a Robin reliant 3 wheeler car. Fibre glass body. Me and my sisters would squeeze in it with her and sometimes my gran too. The three wheeler struggled with hills because it only had a very low cc engine. It was hard to drive in snow because the front wheel would have to push it’s way through fresh snow… Eek

One day on a very long steep hill l remember it boiled dry dragging 5 of us and our combined weight upwards. I remember a hot day and wondering how we would get home. Luckily mom found a house and they brought a watering can of water down to refill the radiator.

BTW Robin reliants got the nickname “Plastic pigs”!

Eclipse drawing

Posted on August 17, 2026August 18, 2026 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged artistic, ArtRage app, Doodle, Eclipse drawing, Life, Moon, Sketching, Sun, Sunset1 Comment

Tried to do a sketch of the partial eclipse using Artrage app. It’s using digital pens and tools which replicate things like soft pastels or brush marks.

The image is not based on a real picture, but is more of a doodle. X

Sun pattern

Posted on August 12, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cast shadow, crescent sun images, Life, Light, Moon, partial eclipse, Plants, Shadows, Sun1 Comment

Crescent patterns of light caused by today’s partial eclipse. Sunlight through leaves made the shadows act like camera obscura images. I couldn’t get out to see it safely but had heard of this method of viewing it, approx 7.10pm.the UK. 12.8.26.

Reddest

Posted on August 11, 2026 Posted in Uncategorized, MemoriesTagged Bag, brush, Colour, Fire, hammered, Heat, imitation, Life, Poem, Poetry, Poppy, Red1 Comment

Red bag and brush

Imitating a poppy.

I love you scarlet

The colour of lipstick.

Too hot to handle

Not cool but hot

Flamed and fierce

Like glowing lava

Starting to radiate.

Furnace cherry

Ready to be hammered

Into dragon shapes.

It rained

Posted on August 4, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Centigrade, Clouds, Dark, dry, Garden, hear, Hot, Life, pattering, Rain, sweating, WindowsLeave a comment

Only for ten minutes, but the sky was cloudy, then darkened. I could HEAR it pattering against the windows, and when I went to the back door the noise was sublime. There were even puddles!

This is nothing, we have not had rain for weeks and it has been above 30°C in some parts of the country for over a month.

Now I’ve just finished the washing up and I’m drenched with sweat. It’s still warm and extremely humid. I’m so tired.

Goodnight.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life