Baskets

Posted on July 19, 2026July 19, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Friends, Garden, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Memories, small farm, Water, yearly projectLeave a comment

I’m trying hard to keep my hanging baskets alive. They are on a shady fence which is good, but one in particular is in full sun and is getting rather crispy. Also I bought a few small extra plants but they outgrew their pots so a friend and her son came over to help today to repot them into containers. Some of them were a bit wonky so I tried to straighten them up. That was hard work. Even putting the bin out exhausts me.

Anyway the photo is of one of them. Bought just over a month ago from a small farm and really filled out. I’m using washing up water and some bottles of water to keep them going. Might rain next week… Cropped off the dried out bits.

I do this every year, but this year was a bit much, I will see what happens next year x

I want cold!

Posted on July 16, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged celcius, Chill, Climate, Cold, Earth, Heat, heatwave, Life, Rain, Snow, Tired, Weather, wildfires, Winter3 Comments

Winter, snow, rain

Memory of snow

Sitting here, I wish for a chill in the air. Yesterday was St Swithens day. They say if it rains during the day it will rain for another 40 days and nights… No chance of that…

The UK is suffering it’s 3rd heatwave in a couple of months and I’ve not been able to do anything. Temperatures have been over 35 degrees Celcius in some places. The world is definitely heating and water reservoirs are depleted.

Meanwhile we have politicians both here (conservatives and reform) and in the USA who want us to “drill baby drill”, seeing only short term gain and a lack of understanding of climate science. Now smoke from wildfires in Canada drifts on the wind southwards and the USA have been complaining!

Maybe hell will be on Earth after all, but the majority of the population do not deserve to suffer it.

Air fresheners

Posted on July 14, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Air fresheners, Chemicals, Life, Money, Pollution, sales, sneezing, unregulated2 Comments

Air fresheners make me sneeze. I keep seeing adverts for them so I looked it up online. Not good:

Air fresheners typically contain a complex, unregulated mixture of synthetic chemicals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Common ingredients include formaldehyde, phthalates (which act as hormone disruptors), petroleum distillates, and benzene derivatives. These are often dissolved in solvents like isopropyl alcohol to disperse the scent.

There is more, but I didn’t want to use too much of this quotation from Google.

Just think of your health before you spend your money.

Waiting

Posted on July 13, 2026July 13, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Time, Waiting, Life, Thinking, Fear, Worry, Anxiety, Procrastination, catastrophe, wrong1 Comment

I feel like I’m waiting

Watching out

For something to happen

A buzzing, fizzing, aching

Feeling unable to settle

Like the house will fall down

Or a comet will hit

Fires will strike

Things will crash

So I sit

Nerves twisting my gut

Agony and anxiety

Catastrophising

Waiting for my jenga life

To fall..

Procrastinating

Damsons

Posted on July 11, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art group, cut down, Damsons, destroyed, Gardening, Hedge, Life, Plants, Walnut1 Comment

What fruit there is is ripening in this excessive heat but will possibly be spoilt by next Wednesday when I see it again, it’s at the craft group I go to, either that or it will have been eaten by hungry birds.

In other news my neighbour down the road owns a computer shop. A couple of years ago they bought the land to the side of my garden and now they are in the process of building a new office. So because my old hedge was growing over the boundary line they have cut it down and some of my Walnut tree branches too. I think they thought they were doing me a favour but I’m worried someone could get in the garden and break into my sheds (I have been burgled before), and Walnuts can weep until they die. With that and metallic fencing they are putting up it will feel more like a prison than a garden.

Fan time

Posted on July 10, 2026July 10, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Poetry, Weather, Poem, Life, Tired, Hot, Electricity, Fan, heatwave, exhaustionLeave a comment

Third heatwave in a few weeks

I’m exhausted

Too hot

Found a small fan.

But I wait for the room

To get hot

Before I switch it on.

Then bliss as cool air

Sweeps over me

But don’t want to use

Too much electricity…

Orange cat

Posted on July 8, 2026 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cat, impressionistic, Life, line work, orange cat, Painting, Texture, toothbrush1 Comment

Playing with line, used a toothbrush for the black outlines. Acrylic on canvas. Done at art group today. I gave it to a friend as it reminded her of her cat Marmalade. X

In situ

Posted on July 6, 2026 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Criccieth Castle, decor, dining room, Fine Art, Home, in situ, Life, Painting6 Comments

Here is my painting, finally finished and hanging in my friends house. It’s colours really match the decor.. I’m so pleased I painted this it took ages but it works well. I can still paint!

Hanging baskets

Posted on June 15, 2026June 15, 2026 Posted in MemoriesTagged arrivals, Careful, Colours, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Plants, Summer, Watering3 Comments

My hanging baskets arrived today and were carefully hung by my sister. She had transported them from a country nursery squashed in the back of her car.

They are all very well grown and cost a bit more than I intended. But they certainly make me smile. Now I’ve got to work out how to water them without falling over or soaking myself, wish me luck!

Burglar

Posted on June 12, 2026 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged burglar, Cat, Food, Ginger, interloper, Life, non resident, red haired, squatter, theif2 Comments

Red haired, wearing a striped coat. Creeps in when I’m not looking, steals food and plays with my fur babies toys.

Very vocal when challenged, shouts and screams, but calms down when spoken to quietly. Believed to be a local resident but I don’t know their address and no identification produced when challenged.

May be trying to be a squatter?

Mallaband-Brown

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