Maternity Hospital bombed.

Posted on March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bombing, Children, Death, Fear, Life, maternity ward, millions affected, murder, Refugees, Russia, shelling, Ukraine, War, WomenLeave a comment

Why 🇷🇺 Russia?

WHY BOMB A MATERNITY WARD?

Women and children were injured in a Maternity hospital in Mariapol. 🇺🇦 Ukraine does not deserve that. Estimates that 16 or more hospitals have been attacked in the country. I want to swear. People are being promised humanitarian corridors to safety, but some of them have been shelled too. It is slaughter, it is murder. Russians? Are you being attacked? No! Leave your neighbours alone. More than 2 million refugees have fled from their country. I’m disgusted.

This is evil. This is inhumane. Initial reports said women and children died was changed to injured. Even so hospitals should not be bombed!

1.7 Million flee Ukraine

Posted on March 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged artillery, Fear, Life, millions, Refugees, Russia, shelling, Time, Ukraine, WorryLeave a comment

How can this continue? Millions fleeing a European country, desperate but defiant. Ukraine is still being bombarded by a bully. Women and children and the elderly are trying to escape. They have suffered dehydration and lack of food and power to get out if the country. In Ukraine the temperatures with windchill are due to be between minus 13 and minus 20 degrees Celcius. How can anyone survive in a basement with shells falling around them with nothing to give heat, no way of heating food, no fresh water. The corridors that Russia are setting up lead citizens into Russia or Belarus. Why would you want to move to your aggressors country? This is so difficult, we sit and wait for the next move and the next. This needs to calm down, not be further inflamed. Stop the Madness Russia, Stop the WAR! 🇷🇺 🇺🇦

Cygnet

Posted on March 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baby swan, bird flu, Cygnet, Hans Christian Anderson, Life, Swan, the Ugly DucklingLeave a comment

Cygnet under the weeping willows at Westport Lake this weekend.

A Cygnet is the name of a young Swan, this will be one from last spring. It’s white feathers are starting to come through. As it moults after winter it should lose the brown feathers and become fully white. Like in the story the Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson, where the duckling is in reality a young Swan.

I wanted to feed the wild birds while I was there but the Wildlife Trust are not selling bird food. There is bird flu in the country and when they come together to feed it can spread between the geese and ducks and swans, moorhens and coots. So sad to see. Hopefully they will be OK and the population will recover soon.

Blue and yellow on my mind

Posted on March 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Complicated, Confused, Drawing, Life, Pattern, Sketching, sunflowers, Tangled, ThinkingLeave a comment

Sunflowers and blue leaves, abstract pattern. Waiting for a resolution, no sign of peace or compromise. Women and children, old men and women try to escape. But their routes are snared with artillery and arms. Meanwhile the world waits for what? Who can guess… Time flies, slowly. Only a few days feels like a month of Sundays. I’m starting to avoid the news. So bleak. So much pain but so much bravery. My country? Keeping refugees out! Talking about security breaches instead of desperate humanity. Bean counters. May they be told to help instead of hindering. Me.. I’m just sad and confused.

Clothes sizes

Posted on March 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clothes, disenfranchised, landfill, Life, Recycle, Reuse, sizes, Thinking, Time, Waste2 Comments

I was talking to a friend about buying clothes and she said although she has lost weight she still thinks she’s a size twenty. She said the woman serving her said the clothes in the shop only go up to size eighteen. My friend was so embarrassed she decided to say she was buying for a friend. She tried on an eighteen and a sixteen and they both fit because she has lost weight. But I think the shop and its owners are missing a trick. The majority of women in the UK are over size sixteen. I think the fashion industry disenfranchises a lot of customers. They struggle to find affordable clothes that will fit. How many size ten to fourteen clothes remain unsold and go to landfill? If they sell ten percent of their clothes the rest will probably not be recycled. What a waste of resources and money.

Laughter

Posted on March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, belt, Black and white cat, black and white pen, Cat, Felt pens, Laughter, Life, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Laughter is watching my cat chasing the belt to my dressing gown. One side has lost its belt loop so it drags along the floor and…Pounce! So funny watching her bounce around! Todays #bandofsketchers prompt. Black fine line pen and felt pens.

Sewing – a good skill

Posted on March 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buttons, Life, make do and mend, mending, Repairs, Sewing, Sewing kit, taking in, TrousersLeave a comment

OK so I am not skilled at sewing but I can repair and mend things. I’ve also done a couple of cross stitch things (just don’t look at the back). I don’t do sewing machines, I couldn’t get the hand of them, and the one skirt I made at school had a wobbly hem! But if a button falls off or I lose a bit of weight I can take things in.

Why is sewing good? It’s make do and mend. Don’t throw things away. Fix them! It saves waste and costs less!

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!

Mallaband-Brown

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