Cat not well.

Posted on July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cataract, Driving, Emergency, Illness, Life, Parkinsons, Stress, Tuxedo cat, vets, Worry3 Comments

My Cat started breathing fast this evening. I’d taken him to the vets yesterday and he was fine. They gave him some meds but I don’t think this is anything to do with this. I think he might have a fur ball. He sounded a bit wheezy before his breathing changed. After about an hour things have settled down and he is sleeping.

I rang the vets office anyway and they said they would call me back. I dare not drive to the emergency vets because of my Parkinsons and cataracts. They are on the other side of the city and I don’t want to put him or me at risk. So I’ll stay up with him and take him down my local vets in the morning.

It’s frightening when you live on your own and things go wrong. If I can’t rely on myself I’m in trouble. Age and the aging process is a pain.

My Eye

Posted on July 28, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cataract, Eyesight, Health, Lens, Life, Looking, operation, Poem, Poetry, Sight, Soon, Thinking8 Comments

I’m waiting, with some trepidation, to have eye surgery to remove a cataract.

When will I see you again?

Will you see me?

Patched like a pirate,

Hidden from my view,

Two dimensional,. Everything…

Lost vision

Hope I’m patched up

Soon…

Short, older middle aged, tired

Posted on July 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aging, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2013, Description, Life, myself, self image, Thinking1 Comment

How would you describe yourself to someone?

Oh and an artist, a singer, enthusiastic about caring for people. Thoughtful, enjoys science, and thrillers, and fantasy, and sci-fi. Cat lover, cat mother. Not too well, but surviving. I don’t know when to relent and let myself rest. I’m stubborn, if I have a strong opinion and I will try and get my point across.

Physically I don’t think I’m as well as I could be but I do try and look after myself. It’s sometimes difficult to cope but I manage.

My cat

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Friend, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Queen, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat3 Comments

She’s regal

A true queen.

Jumps across me at bedtime

She has made her own space.

Black and white

Cute and small.

Friend.

Fruit

Posted on July 25, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, five a day, Food, Fruit, Life, Music, Photo, plum, refreshing, Satsuma, Singing2 Comments

A satsuma and a plum. Part of my five fruit and vegetables a day. Refreshing when you have been practising songs for a couple of hours. I balanced them on top of each other just to make an interesting photo. They are resting on an old table that has been used for artwork.

A cataract impression.

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cataract, Eyesight, impression, Life, Photography, sheet, Thinking, View, VisionLeave a comment

I could see the window was blurry through my eye with my worst cataract and I wondered how to create an image of what it looks like? I took a photo through my bed sheet and it sort of worked. I also put it through a black and white filter because my sheet was pink. My eyesight isn’t as bad as this, but it does give an impression of what I imagine a really bad cataract would look like.

Wet

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned, evaporated, Gone, Life, Memory, nut marking, ring, stain, Thinking, Time, WaterLeave a comment

Not a nut but the ring off the bottom of a wet glass. Water absorbed into the open unvarnished oak grain. A temporary signature that will soon dry.

Food and drink finished, I abandoned it to its quiet fate of invisibility. Evaporated, gone.

Cactii

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cactii cactuses, dry, Growing, healthy. Poem, Life, Poetry, spiky, sunny window ledge, thriving, WateringLeave a comment

Celebrate cactii

They just don’t die

Easily anyway

Not too thirsty

Find the balance

Wet or dry?

Keep them happy

They’ll thrive

You need hands

Posted on July 22, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged B'arts, clothes rail, Coat hanger, Design, Hands, hat stand, Life, Memories, Photo1 Comment

I saw this today, a clothes rail that had hand shapes to hook coats or hats on. I spoke to our choir leader at teatime and as we were chatting I mentioned I liked the funky design…. Turned out her ex husband had made it years ago! It was a commission made for a business man, but when his firm closed it came back to the Barts building and is used for costumes.

My question, how on earth did I pick up on this link without ever knowing about it intuition?

Cottage scene

Posted on July 22, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bread oven, Burslem witch, Cottage, gossip, History, Life, molly leigh, Opera, set dressing, Story2 Comments

A bread oven, table, stool, Welsh dresser, herbs and a lamp. If you come to the Molly Leigh opera you will see five stage sets.

Each scene is repeated twice, but you only have time to see three of the scenes. The opera is asking more questions than answers. The woman who was Molly Leigh might have been gossiped about, the story calling her a witch might be lies. She could have been a wise woman, a healer. The tales told about her may have been caused by jealousy. Or on the other hand she might have been evil, spiteful, possessed? That is the question.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life