1.5 million have fled Ukraine 🇺🇦

Posted on March 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Compassion, Fear, Life, Peace, Putin, Russia, Thinking, Ukraine, War, women and childrenLeave a comment

Russia continues to bombard cities and towns in Ukraine. Women and children are trying to escape but escape routes are blocked and many places are under seige with no food, water or power. Bodies lie unclaimed and rotting in the streets.

Mr Putin, why are you so merciless? You are doing the same things that you did in Allepo in Syria. Your actions are not honorable. You are not supporting Ukraine citizens, you and your masses of troops are KILLING THEM.

The world needs peace and security. Especially when the threat of global warming is going to affect us all.

Putin is acting like a child having a tantrum! He needs to think again, he is in charge of this. If he has any compassion he should stop the WAR. WE NEED PEACE.

Cat sleeps

Posted on March 4, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cushion, Eating, Happy, Life, Outside, Sleeping, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He’s there again, on the arms of the chairs. He has a cushion balanced between our two armchairs. He’s in from the cold, curled up. He will sit there for a couple of hours, then get bored or two warm, and go off again, outside one exploring, or he will go and eat and drink then come back. Yes his belly is big, he’s a happy cat. X

Falling glasses

Posted on March 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blurred, Cat, Glasses, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, reading glasses, Seeing, ViewLeave a comment

Falling glasses. When you need reading glasses but can manage without them. You rest them on your knees- then they fall off! I was taking a photo of my cat but fumbled with the phone and snapped (not literally) my glasses instead!

What a view

Falling through

The air

Onto my shoe!

You were meant to be

My cat

But as you can see

From where they sat

On my knee

Glasses – not a cat

Fell flat

Splat!

Annoying

Posted on March 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blocked, Instagram, IPhone, Life, pestered, reported, spam, spammers, spamming, ThinkingLeave a comment

I keep getting messages on my Instagram account that I have won an iPhone. The trouble is I don’t want one and I’m fed up after a couple of months of being spammed. I will never click on a link. I’m not daft, I’m not tempted, I will keep blocking the posters. I think I’ve had fifteen or twenty messages so far. If I’d won that many (from all different peoples Instagram accounts) I could make a great deal of money selling them all. But I’m NOT INTERESTED. I keep blocking them and reporting them. OK that’s enough, I’ll stop spamming you xxx

Spin

Posted on March 3, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Calm, cease, Fears, Ideas, Life, Mind, Pace, Poem, Poetry, Spinning, Thought, WorriesLeave a comment

Spinning head

Twisting top

My mind rotates

it just won’t stop

Thoughts tumble

Round and round

My thinking fuddled

Worries sound

In my head

All around.

Lots of problems

in the world

Let’s make peace

Speak calm words

And emnity cease.

Vintage

Posted on March 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, dress, fifties, Life, Pattern, sixties, Sketching, VintageLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was vintage. OK, so I looked up vintage dress on my phone then made up a pattern. I think I’ll call it ‘molecules’. I was aiming at one of those 50’s/60’s patterns I remember from my childhood. The background was just to try and make it stand out.

Cat Woman

Posted on March 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Cat, Design, Drawing, Face, finger drawing, Free app, Life, Sketching, WomanLeave a comment

Doodle in ArtRage oils free app. I’m so busy drawing with felt pens that I forgot that I have it on my phone. I’m sort of sticking with blue and yellow as my main colours. Why, because Ukraine is on my mind. I guess this isn’t brilliant but finger painting with smudgy drawing tools can be difficult. I don’t know what made me draw this, but it was fun..

Cat-astrophe!

Posted on March 2, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cat-astrophe, Damp, Jump, Life, Oops, Photo, slipped, Splash, toilet, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

This is my older boy cat. Sitting in his box in the kitchen, like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth….

This morning he ran in the bathroom. He usually jumps up on the lid of the toilet, then up onto the cupboard by the window to nibble at the plant in there…

Oh no! The lid was up. He jumped, slid and slipped across the seat, plop, splash! Into the toilet bowl (luckily cleaned this morning). Poor cat! Miaow! Very wet cat! He was fine. But I will remember to keep the lid down. I hope he’s a bit more cautious tomorrow!

Spring is springing

Posted on March 2, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, Growing, Leaves, Life, March, Poem, Poetry, Spring, Trees, Weather, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Buds are bursting

Leaves are appearing

Pigeons are roosting in the rain

The sky’s are grey

Ducks and geese wander

Round Westport Lake.

A gentle walk

Taking in the view

Dampened by the drizzle

Laceworks of twigs

Fill in the gaps

Soon there will be daffodils

Crocuses and tulips

Then May blossom.

March,

In like a lion

Out like a lamb

(or vice versa)

Soon to be revealed…..

Construction

Posted on March 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, Construction, Drawing, Life, Perspective, Sketching, Ukraine, vanishing points, Yellow2 Comments

When I was young I used to practice drawing perspective using one or two vanishing points. When our #bandofsketchers prompt came up as construction I thought I would do something along those lines. Then thinking of Ukraine and how it will need rebuilding I decided to colour it blue and yellow.

Mallaband-Brown

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