Cat shenanigans

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Boy cat, Cat, Cat flap, Fun?, Girl cat, Life, Living with cats, Random, ShenanigansLeave a comment

Hes just discovered the cat flap is working, so he went out into the dark night. The thing is that now both of my cats are inoculated they can go out. But there is the abandoned cat outside and he’s twice my boy cats size and even bigger than the girl cat.

So boy went out through the flap, but couldn’t get back in because the abandoned one was hanging round for food. Solution. Put a tray of cat food further up the yard to distract the abandoned one, then call boy cat in. Finally lock the cat flap for the night…. Result he can’t get out! Will open it again in the morning.

Crop

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple, Autumn, Blogging, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Life, Pear, Plant, Random, Tasty, TreesLeave a comment

Days are getting shorter now and the fruit is getting ripe. We have plenty of pears on our tree, but of all five apple trees only one fruit. But then after weeding the allotment this morning we were allowed to get a tub of apples in exchange. Some of them are different varieties, a lot of them are a bit holey but I’m hoping they will taste nice if I stew them up or cook them in a cake. If it turns out OK I will post about it.

Tree

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Environment, Life, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Sea, Sketch, Sketching, Tree, Woman artist2 Comments

Tree, look after me,

Let me climb up and see

Where the world ends

Where the sea sweeps

High views

Cliff edges,

Sand bars

Tree you let me see far

Over hill and vale

Into the distant waves

Crashing across the earth’s face

Like tears and mountains,

Flying spray

Blowing limbs from the tree

In a gale.

Hubby digging

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Etruria Artists, Friends, Garden, Life, Meeting people, Nervous, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Portuguese cafe, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Fork in hand, pulling up weeds, tweed overcoat on, wearing a deerstalker hat, and enjoying a showery morning at Shelton allotments. No sketching challenge today, but we later met with some friends at a social distance so I got my sketch pad out again while enjoying a pleasant coffee in a Portuguese cafe. My nerves were a bit jangly after two seperate meetings with people so I wore a mask on both occasions and gloves when I was weeding. It’s hard to think the world might be going back to normal even though covid 19 is still here.

Painting, nebula on a star…

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Eleanora street, Life, Nebula, Painting, Space, Spode, Staffordshire, Stars, Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

Picture from the studio at spode last year. I thought it would be fun to paint a nebula onto a star shaped canvas I found. I’ve never seen another one. I also painted the Earth on a hexagonal canvas, but again I’ve not been able to find more. The shops seem to have less options to what they had even a year ago. I would really like to get hold of a circular canvas.

Friends making a bench….

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chairs, DIY, Gardening, Life, making, Photo, Plants, Recycling, Screws, Wood2 Comments

Two old chairs and some planks of wood. Upcycling I think it’s called? Or is it recycling…. The chairs are solid so this should work. I think she’s going to make it into a garden seat with a space in the centre for a plant pot or planter. The good thing about this is that it is recycled, so instead of hundreds of pounds this could be made from scrap out of a skip and some screws to hold it together.

Life gets everywhere

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dandelion, Earth, Environment, Growth, Life, Photo, Plant, Random, Spode, Time2 Comments

Even iin the cracks of windowledges or steps. This was growing at Spode last year. Not pretty, but green, seed heads developing, waiting to be dandelion clocks.

Next year there might be ten new plants, then a hundred the year after. Not exponential, but a creaping greening. A creating of new life, roots diving deep, breaking up the earth. If only we could embrace nature more? Not kill it but give it a helping hand. We know its wrong to harm the planet. Why do we persist.

Band of sketchers first drawing

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Back garden, Back yard, Band of sketchers, Distance, Drawing, Fun, Life, Plants, Sketching, Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

A ggrou of us have decided to keep running sketching challenges but not in our local urban sketching group. This is because not everyone sticks to the urban sketchers rules and we were also clogging up the gallery with some strange and interesting images, but not necessarily outside.

Today’s challenge was distance. I saw some people have drawn landscapes with far away landmarks, but I interpreted it differently….. I in my case I drew my friends back yard. With plants growing up the wall and in pots at the rear of her house. First of a new set of ideas….

Owl

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal rescue, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Environment, Life, Nature, Owl, Sketch, Sketchfu8 Comments

Clearing up my photos on my phone I decided to delete and optimise them. It jumbled up the ones I left behind. I loved drawing this on the sketchfu website that has since closed so don’t go looking for it.

I love owls, we have visited owl sanctuaries and animal sanctuaries. I just love the patterns on their feathers, and the fact that most of them fly silently. Their eyes are amazing. Staring at you like they are pinning you to the ground like a small rodent!

Cushions

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging., Couch, Cushions, Life, Random, Settee, Sitting, Soft furnishings2 Comments

What is it about cushions? I suppose they support your back or your head, but sometimes you end up with too many. Not because you bought them. Not all of them, some are presents, some were going to be presents for others, but you failed to give them in time. Then they just stayed, sitting on the couch, waiting for the chance to be used when a friend stops on the settee for the night, or to be hugged hard when watching horror films. Holding the cushion up to blank out nasty scenes….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life