Coffee pot

Posted on July 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1950's, Coffee, coffee and tea set, Coffee pot, Decorated, Dragon, Life, Photo, Pottery, Time, wedding present3 Comments

A coffee pot decorated with a dragon. My parents got this tea and coffee set for their wedding in the 1950’s. It was rarely used and was mostly stored in a glass fronted cabinet in the parlour or ‘best room’. Considering we were a large family the room wasn’t used except for Christmas and sometimes birthdays. That is why the coffee and tea set survived I think! I guess the set wasn’t that old because some of the decorations are done with what looks like an air brush, the colours look sprayed on, not painted on parts of the body of the pot.

Wind blows

Posted on July 4, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bird, Black cat, Cat, Drawing, Life, North, Poem, Poetry, South, Weather, weather vane, WindLeave a comment

Wind blows

and cat knows

Which way the wind is blowing.

Bird flies

And follows

The wind southwards

To find a home to brood

It’s young chicks.

Cat looks North

Bird comes South

May they miss each other

In the windy sky.

Window

Posted on July 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blackbird, Garden, Heart, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Summer, Symmetry, WindowLeave a comment

I see all ways

Up, down, side to side

A window on the world

No where to hide.

Flying through space

Into the distance

Blackbird swoops

Sings and spirals

In joy and love.

Like my heart

In the summer

Like a butterfly

Fluttering.

Linocutting

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Arts and crafts, Black and white cat, Cat, Life, linocut, Printing, Tuxedo cat5 Comments

I’m going to do some cards using this linocut for a craft fair I’m thinking of doing. I wonder if this is to quirky and should I try different colours. Perhaps gold or bronze instead. If I also get envelopes it might make an interesting card. I hoe cat lovers will like them.

One more for tonight

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Doodle, Environment, Eyes, Hay-fever, Life, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Pollen, SketchingLeave a comment

A doodle based on the previous post about the environment. They say allergies are caused by being bought up in conditions that are too clean so the body does not learn how to react normally to its surroundings.

Feeling stressed

Thinking of nature

But suffering hay-fever!

Eyes water

When I try and commune

With the outside world

The pollen

So tiny

Can keep me trapped.

Sneezing

Enclosed

Removed from nature!

Weimaraner

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dog, grey brown, Life, pedigree, therapy dog, Walking, weimaraner, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Well trained Weimaraner dog seen on our walk round Westport Lake. Trained as a therapy dog, it was very capable of following orders. The colour was a grey brown and its eyes were a mixture of yellow and blue.. Its owner said that as it got older the colour might become more amber. I might do a painting of it as I have a closer view of it. One thing is because of the way I took the photo its head looks a little too big because if foreshortening. It looks more in proportion on the other photo.

Stinging eyes

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Biology, Eye, Eyes, glaucoma, Life, Looking, Photographs, retina, retinopathy, scan, VisionLeave a comment

Ouch! When you have the back of your eyes photographed you have to have eyedrops put in that sting. Then for a few hours afterwards your pupils are dilated so that if you walk around in the sunshine everything is dazzling and the world is blurred.

Of course I asked how the pictures looked and the technician said she couldn’t go into detail it they looked OK and she would send the results on to be reported on.

I’m really pleased my eye are OK, I don’t want damage to my retinas. It would be awful not to see things properly. Not be able to paint things or draw. I’m relieved, it’s an annual checkup so I hope to continue to be OK.

Watching Wimbledon

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Life, losing, Play, Rain, Sport, Strawberries and cream, Summer, Tennis, WimbledonLeave a comment

I mustn’t watch. The players I support seem to lose when I watch them! If I listen its OK, but if I see the shots… Well it’s something that seems to happen. I have my favourite tennis players, but I’m not obsessed with the game. I wouldn’t go and watch it live.

Wimbledon is the epitome of summer in the UK. Strawberries and cream at exorbitant prices. At least one day of heavy rain which ‘stops play’, injury and tantrums. I still remember watching the McEnroe game where he shouted at the umpire ‘you cannot be serious’ when a shot of his was deemed to be ‘out’ (outside the playing area) and he had lost a point ( game/set/match)?

I saw Andy Murray win a few years ago, so I can’t really be jinxing them. But although I love the game I do have things to do!

PS, both the people I watched lost!

I need to get out.

Posted on June 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged arm, Balance, Body, Exercise, Hands, Legs, Life, Mental health, Shaking, Shoulder, Tense, Time, Walking3 Comments

I sometimes feel trapped in the house. I don’t mind doing things, it’s just since I’ve developed a shaking left arm I feel a bit unsteady on my feet, like I’m going to trip u or something. As I walk my shoulders, arm and hand get tense, then my neck and head finally my feet feel like they are going to tangle up. I just wish it hadn’t sapped my confidence. The garden fence could be iron bars, the front door is the door to my cell…. I suppose it’s me looking for safety and security, but I need to find mental as well as physical balance again.

Hay-fever

Posted on June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, fields, Grass, growing up, Hay, Life, Nose, Pollen, running eyes, School, sneezingLeave a comment

Today is dry and windy. I might go out later but the pollen count is very high. I’m allergic to grass pollen. It started when I was a child, I would wake up with ‘sleep in my eyes’ gunged up with mucus. Then I did a painting in situ in the school playing fields, I was drawing and painting a van dumped on the field. In the week it was there I sat and drew it most lunchtimes. By the end of that week I had full blown hay-fever! I think it was because the grass was really tall and was distributing pollen.

Nowadays there are much better antihistamines, eye drops and nasal sprays. Thank goodness, the situation without them would be horrible. I walked past a garden full of overgrown grass a few years ago and I could not breathe! Sneezing, running eyes, all of the symptoms. I had to buy hay-fever tablets straight away to calm it down.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life

Coffee pot

Wind blows

Window

Linocutting

One more for tonight

Weimaraner

Stinging eyes

Watching Wimbledon

I need to get out.

Hay-fever