Geminid Meteor Shower

Posted on December 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, Geminids, Life, Meteor shower, Night, Sky, Tonight, Too cloudy, Wikipedia, Winter skyLeave a comment

I tried to view the shower a few years ago. We drove miles, but we’re stuck under a cloud base that was miles across. I gave up after forty miles. Tonight it’s the same, cloud everywhere. But if you get the chance try and see it for yourself!

The Geminid meteor shower is tonight. (morning of 14th December 2020). I looked up the information on Wikipedia I’m afraid as I don’t know enough about them:

The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon,^[4] which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid^[5] with a “rock comet” orbit.^[6] This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. The meteors from this shower are slow moving, can be seen in December and usually peak around December 6–14, with the date of highest intensity being the morning of December 14. The shower is thought to be intensifying every year and recent showers have seen 120–160 meteors per hour under optimal conditions, generally around 02:00 to 03:00 local time. Geminids were first observed in 1862,^[1] much more recently than other showers such as the Perseids (36 AD) and Leonids (902 AD).

My indoor boy cat

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Brother and sister, Cat, Don't forget the other two, Friendly, Indoor, Integrating, Life, Outdoor, Pets, PlayingLeave a comment

While I’m caring for an abandoned cat I must also continue to care for my other two. They have both been patient with me but I do feel guilty especially for my boy cat who loves to be loved. I think he’s a little jealous of our interloper and because he’s smaller than outdoor boy he sometimes takes it out on his sister. There’s been a lot more chasing and play fighting than before. That they have been so calm about the new cat comes, I think, from living with eighteen other cats (I took them in as rescue cats). I think they will all integrate, just wondering what we will do if we go away on holiday.

Cat toys story

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Humour, Joy, Life, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Story, ToysLeave a comment

Run from the cat

Bounce away

Scuttle mouse

Flap your ears

Fly through the air

Roll under the sofa

Scatter and sway

Never get caught

By the cat!

Watching ‘It’s a wonderful life’

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white film, Christmas story, Classic film, Family, James Stewart, Life, WonderfulLeave a comment

A sstrange and eventually wonderful story of a man who loses everything including his family and identity. He is transported to a world where he no longer exists. Everything he ever influenced has been changed.

Like a Christmas Carol it tugs at the heart strings. If you have never seen it, find it. X

Stars James Stewart as George Bailey, black and white film.

At the waiting room gallery

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Before virus, BV, Domestic view, Life, Longport, Photo, Picture, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Waiting room gallery4 Comments

Photo taken by a friend at the waiting room gallery a few months ago BV, (before virus). He’s reading, I’m tapping away on my phone. The surroundings makes it look like an old painting. Although it’s in a gallery I think it looks like a domestic scene. I love the atmospheric look of it.

Sunny for a while

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Earth, Life, Light, Low sun, Photo, Shadows, Solstice, Summer solstice, Sun, Thinking, WinterLeave a comment

Light at this time of year is always low. Striking across the ground rather than high above it. This is because the Earths Northern hemisphere tips away from the Sun. So much so that the North Pole dips into darkness in the winter months. Shadows are long now and when you do get into sunshine the light can be blinding from the Sun on the horizon. You can look for images of the suns track across the sky at different times of the year. It basically arcs round from East to West but tipped at an angle dipping more South as winter progresses, then from the winter solstice around the 21st of December, it starts to slowly work its way back up the sky until its almost overhead on Midsummer day at midday, then the cycle starts all over again.

Vaccine

Posted on December 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Covid19, Experts, Health, Inoculate, Jenner, Life, Science, Thinking, VaccineLeave a comment

How amazing to think that a vaccine is coming out for Covid19. If only fake news had not run like a virus through the Internet. There are also fears from other vaccinations in the past. The doctor who linked MMR vaccination to autism and who was discredited over it has not helped matters. At the end of the day we need to listen to scientists and experts. Yes we should ask intelligent questions, but this is a chance to get the ‘R’ number down below 1.

How would it have been if Edward Jenner had worked out how to inoculate people against Smallpox only to be told that he couldn’t use it to save lives? What about all those other viruses out there that used to kill people or make them seriously ill? If they didn’t die people sometimes had to survive in Iron Lungs when they had Polio. Now a new disease needs us to accept a vaccine that may not cure it but could be a game changer.

Sky portrait artist of the year programme

Posted on December 9, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Portrait, Sketch, Sky portrait art is of the year, Thirty to forty minute drawingLeave a comment

Watched Sky Portrait artist of the year, semi final with Booker Prize winner, Bernadine Evaristo as the sitter. I got an image of her from the net and tried to draw her. It’s not a good likeness but I tried. Thirty to Forty minute drawing. Felt pens on cartridge paper.

Sunset glow

Posted on December 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Cold, Fog, Glowing sky, Landscape, Life, Photo, SunsetLeave a comment

I just found this photo from a year ago. When we had a series of clear cold nights and the sunsets were amazing. This was taken at Alsager mere I think, although you can’t see many reflections on the water (mere is another name for a lake for example Windermere in Cumbria). I remember driving home after this and banks of fog were drifting across the road as I got close to home.

Punk

Posted on December 9, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital sketch, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memory, punk, Sketch, Sketcher free appLeave a comment

Memory of the 1970’s and 80’s. The punk era. Digital drawing done on the sketcher free app. I drew this three years ago so I don’t remember it much. Found on my Facebook memories….

Mallaband-Brown

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