Deleted photos

Posted on May 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Deleting, Life, Memory, Photos, Thinking, thousands, Time, WordPress, WordPress media libraryLeave a comment

I’ve got too many photos in my phone. It’s crept up to over 17000 and it’s hard to delete them. The personal ones are really hard to let go. I’m attached to so many of them. I’m not sure if I can wave them goodbye. They do hold me in the past. Tie me together like wrapping paper and string.

The WordPress account only allows a maximum amount of memory and I keep hitting 100 %, so every so often I delete pictures. If I can I remove the free photos from the free photo library, or blurry, not very good ones from my own pictures. I know it’s not what I want to do, but I can’t afford to take on a bigger package. Anyway that means some posts are now lacking images. But I try to delete as few as I can. X

My colour sight…

Posted on May 22, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged affected, Art, Blue, cataracts, Colour, Eyesight, Life, operation, Time, turquoise, VisionLeave a comment

Blue seems turquoise these days. My cataracts have shifted my colour vision. I see it in every television programme. I noticed it a few months ago. I had thought it was because a special new colour had been chosen on fashion grounds. But now I’m pretty certain it’s me. Hope it will be sorted out if and when I have an operation. At least I am in good company with the famous impressionist Claude Monet.

Finished?

Posted on May 21, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Covid, Fine Art, Finished, fringe, Hair, Life, Painting, self portraitLeave a comment

I had my hair cut on Monday so I added a fringe to my self portrait then I tidied up the chin. Finally I finished the painting on the right side of the portrait. My hair is still long as I grew it out during covid. Now I just have it trimmed occasionally. It’s slightly different to my usual style. The acrylics I used were not as opaque as I normally use so I think it looks more like a watercolour.

I miss the sea

Posted on May 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Driving, Life, Memory, Ocean, Poem, Poetry, Postcard, Regrets, Sea, Thinking, tide, ViewLeave a comment

I see the sea and wish

I could be there to see it.

Sending postcards to

Wish you were there

Friends and family

When will I go back?

It’s not far away in distance

But it is in time

I don’t know if I can go now.

I lost my confidence

Don’t feel safe

Travelling the distance….

The tide is out for me.

Morning Cat

Posted on May 18, 2025May 18, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, greeting, Life, morning sun, Poem, Poetry, Purrs, Sitting, Stairs, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He greets me sometimes

with purrs

Mornings in the sun

Have a wash

Finding that comfy space

But sometimes?

He sleeps on a stair tread

Curled up happily

Danger to footsteps

I can avoid

But he’s too cute

To criticise!

Abstract ‘grain’

Posted on May 16, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Bees, Bread, Digital drawing, Food, grain, Insects, Life, Poem, Poetry, pollinating, Porridge, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

If all the bees were gone

There’d be no flowers

So no fruit, no vegetables

No more blossom.

We could still have wind blown pollen

So grain would be possible?

Maybe….

Not much choice

Porridge or bread?

Let’s save our bees

And pollinating insects

We need them.

Digital sketching in Artrage

Posted on May 11, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Hands, Life, Phone, Sketching, Stylus, ten minute drawingLeave a comment

I don’t do many of these anymore. I find it harder to hold my phone when I’m sketching and drawing. My fingers cramp up round the phone and sometimes round a stylus if I’m drawing with one. Anyway got to keep my hand in as the saying goes. Ten minute digital drawing in my Artrage app.

Mystery

Posted on May 11, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged audience, Hubby, Life, Lines, memorable, Memories, Mystery Plays, Panto, Sound, Time, voice1 Comment

Hubby played a prophet in one of the Mystery Plays a few years ago. It was outside but his big booming voice could be heard by the audience sitting on the green. He could project his voice over the traffic noise. If he had been bought up in a more middle class environment I’m sure he would have been an actor. But mental health meant he struggled to remember all his words. We also did the local amateur panto together. He got a pretend Oscar one year for most enthusiastic entrance (or something like that). He was a marvellous, memorable man.

Sarcastic humour

Posted on May 11, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged British, Comedy, Countries, Fun, Humour, Life, literal, Midlands, old sign, sarcasm, Understanding?, Word playLeave a comment

I wanted to explain sarcasm, then I saw this sign! British people are quite sarcastic also called ‘sarcy’ ‘taking the pis*’, ‘taking the pee’ ‘taking the mik’or ‘mikky’. We often love to make a sarcastic joke of things. For instance pointing out trump means to fart loudly (break wind) in this country. We find that amusing.

I think some countries just don’t get it, their humour is more literal. That may go to explain why it can be harder to understand each other’s languages and empathise with each other.

Some parts of Britain can be even more sarcastic I think the Midlands are particularly like this? They play with word sounds and make puns and skits that will cause fits of laughter for some but not others. It’s good to have a laugh!

Trying to do a self portrait

Posted on May 7, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, front view, Life, Painting, Photo, self portrait, Sketching4 Comments

Not right yet, eyes too close together, my nose is too long. But it’s getting there slowly. I need to try and make the eyes slightly smaller too. I tend to paint self portraits straight on although I might try and do a three quarter profile one instead as it can be more dynamic. This took about an hour and a half. In acrylic on canvas.

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