Tired again!

Posted on June 28, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Heat, Hot, Life, Making new memories, Mystery Play, Puppets, Temperature, WeatherLeave a comment

Hot day, hot even in the shade. And as we rehearsed in costume it felt hotter still…..

“Hello everyone, let’s get straight to it shall we…..” I’m narrating and I start the show. I only have a few lines but I ended up reading from the script because I just couldn’t keep the jumbled words in my head.

When I finally got home I had a hot cup of tea, ond then an ice cream! Weird combination but I just needed rehydration.

Two quiet days and now I’m exhausted again. I need shopping but I’m waiting for it to cool down. The weather app says 30°C likely tomorrow. Long term weather forecast is for 20°C and sunny with a light breeze next Saturday on Mystery day. Wish us luck.

Raspberry flowers

Posted on June 27, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged doubles, Flowers, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Growth, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Raspberries, TastyLeave a comment

Ripe raspberries taste refreshing

Zingy and zangy

Sweet and summery

Cool and classic

Fresh flavour

Doubly delicious!

Can’t wait for the next lot when these flowers open and are fertilised by the bees. X

I don’t use my oven.

Posted on June 27, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged airfryer, Cooking, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1982, Electric, Food, Gas, hob, Life, Microwave, Oven, PowerLeave a comment

Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle?

I don’t use the oven or gas fire.

I’ve got an airfryer which is good for small amounts of food. I use the hob for vegetables and small meals like soup. And for really quick meals I use the microwave instead of the hob.

I think doing this has saved me a few pounds. And it’s not warming the climate as much so my carbon footprint must be smaller as I don’t use the car much.

Keeping the bed warm

Posted on June 27, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Heat, Hot, Life, Sleep, Temperature, Tired, Tuxedo cat, Weather2 Comments

One of my cats, last night he was keeping the bed warm for me, no thanks. 27°C in the day and not much cooler last night. I think he was rather warm too. As soon as I sat on the bed he was off. He’s not a teddy bear sort of cat.

The cats are all over the place in this weather, they disappear in the day, only to come in for fresh water and the occasional meal. But they seem happy. I’m hoping for some rain soon.

Meanwhile I have decided to have another quiet day. Sitting in a darkened room, I’m shattered by tiredness and the heat.

Flowers

Posted on June 26, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Joy, Life, Petals, Plants, Poem, Poetry, rhymes, ScentLeave a comment

I want more colour

I want more scent

Flowing green

Petals and sepals

Music in sight

The volume

Set to 11

A rhapsody

Of delight.

A warped cave

Posted on June 25, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2 by 1, Art, Cave, Design, Life, Painting, preparation, reinforcement, Scenery, Support, WoodLeave a comment

We had to reinforce the scenery for the play because it’s only made of hardboard and it is stored in a shed leaning up against other props and developed an shape. The wood needs overpainting but I think I can sort it out. X

Paints

Posted on June 24, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic paint, Art, Colours, emulsion paints, Life, Materials, Painting, palettes, SceneryLeave a comment

What paint to use on scenery? It would be cheaper to use emulsion paint, but the tins are too big for the Mystery Play job as we only have a few pieces of scenery to paint, so I got out my trusty acrylic tubes. The palettes are a bit of a mess, but I have to admit I like peeling the paint off to see what the back of the paint looks like (shiny and smooth, multicoloured).

More to do, tired…

I admit doomscrolling

Posted on June 22, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1977, Distraction, doomscrolling, dopamine, Life, Memories, Poem, Poetry, Time, View, Words2 Comments

How do you waste the most time every day?

Too much stuff to see

Glance, read, what was that?

View, like, heart,

Glance, worry, comment.

Distracting dopamine

Images, words, notes,

Got to stop, put it down

Doomscrolling

Not a good way of looking

At the world…

Custard creams

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged biscuits, China pottery, custard creams, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1976, dining room, dining table, Life, Memory, wallpapers1 Comment

Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?

My favourite biscuits when I was a child were custard creams, a layered sandwich of two biscuits with a creamy vanilla layer in the centre. You would twist them apart and lick off the filling, then dunk the biscuits in a cup of tea, carefully soaking them and eating them before they got too soggy and fell apart.

Sometimes mom would buy a crispy slightly oatier version with a lemony centre to it which would be eaten in the same way.

Just reading the prompt took me back to our living room, sitting at the dining table with a China cup and saucer and matching plate. Milk jug and teapot. The biscuits were eaten after heinz sandwich spread sandwiches on white bread.

I also remember the rusty orange settee and the wallpaper with tiny rosebuds and ribbons printed on it.

Dad bought home a wallpaper book once, full of swatches of paper patterns in various colours. So exciting to look at.

Faces

Posted on June 20, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Design, Fine Art, incollage, Life, Pattern, Photodirector, Texture, TimeLeave a comment

Playing with colours and textures. Who needs AI when you can play with things yourself? This time I started with an acrylic on canvas, then I used photodirector and incollage apps to play with the images. I’m getting some interesting effects.

Mallaband-Brown

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