I don’t know

Posted on December 23, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2161, Decades, Life, lost ideas, Memories, Nostalgia, Poem, Poetry, simple thingsLeave a comment

Share what you know about the year you were born.

I was born on a beautiful planet

A long time ago.

We hadn’t visited the moon

And Superman hadn’t flown.

The world was overpopulated

With a few billion less people

No such thing as a Tesla existed

But we were not bothered.

Shops mainly closed on Sundays

And had half days in the week.

Butchers shops had sawdust

My head was a lot closer to the ground!

No mobile phones, lucky to have a phone box

Wimpy meals instead of McDonald’s burgers

Coffee was in a bottle, liquid, with chicory?

Sweets had not shrunk.

No sweeteners, no noodles, except in Vesta meals

We hadn’t been decimalised!

We were not in Europe (common market).

And Dr Who hadn’t time travelled yet.

Enough information?

Sometimes

Posted on December 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Character, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2160, Hubby, Judgement, Life, Memories, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

Are you a good judge of character?

What’s on the inside isn’t the same as the outside. You might think one thing about a person based on their physical appearance only to find they are completely different to what you expect.

I’d say mostly that I’m a good judge of character. I’ve met many people over my career and my home life, and mostly it’s been OK. But not always, on a couple of occasions I had to give up on friends who tried to split me and my hubby up, I found out one was saying things about me to needle my hubby into leaving me. I realised that the language he was using was in her way of speaking. It was her attitudes that he was spouting. When we talked it through he thankfully understood that. The second situation was a woman that tried to have an affair with him. She was always calling round when I was out. He told me what she was up to, and we ended the friendship.

Other people have fooled me at work, but you cotton on eventually. It can cause heartache when you mistakenly trust people. But you have to live and learn.

Isolated

Posted on December 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, coach trip, Coast, Covid, Group, Hubby, Isolation, Life, Memories, Thinking, WalesLeave a comment

When Covid happened I got used to living in my bubble with my hubby and my cats. I never really came out of that isolation. We were both travelling less and as we both started to suffer with various ailments we often didn’t feel like visiting people or travelling far. I saw friends, but not very often.

Then when I lost my hubby last December, and I had various health issues I virtually stopped going anywhere except to the shops, appointments or the choirs I am in. My one day away this year was a coach trip with a group I am in to the Welsh coast to visit a relative. I was there for 5 or 6 hours then caught the coach home. I’ve found I cannot drive there on my own. I was too used to having my hubby with me as a passenger and I didn’t realise how much I relied on him as a support (and I was supporting him). Nerves and anxiety and illness seem to stop me.

Now I don’t like to bother people, so I try not to ask for help. I stay inside as much as I can, curtains closed, door locked, just occasionally going to the shops when I have run out of most things. I find big supermarkets overwhelming and go round them in the evenings when they are quiet. I know I need to break out, I’m to comfortable with the isolation, but I’m sure it’s not good for me. Plus I miss appointments because of anxiety. I need to pull myself together.. But my curtains remain closed!

Eggs, flour, milk, lemon juice, sugar…

Posted on December 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cooking, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2157, Eating, five items, Food, Life, Pancake, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

List your top 5 grocery store items.

I would choose to make a coherent recipe….

Thin wide pancakes

Not thick small ones

Get the pan hot

With oil in a thin layer

Swirl your pancake mix

Round the base

Cook till it starts to brown

Then flip!

Not my style of stack

I prefer a crepe.

A man?

Posted on December 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2156, intelligence enthusiast, Life, man, Question, Woman6 Comments

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

One of the reasons I love science is that I started watching “the sky at night” bbc TV programme from an early age.

The presenter at that time was Patrick Moore, later to be knighted. He was an amateur astronomer who popularised science in general and astronomy in particular. This was at a time when most programmes were presented by men. What it did do was help me get into critical thinking and formed an interest in science me.

The reason why I question the query asking which MAN influenced me is the fact that women presenters could be as important. For instance Maggie Aderin-Pocock is one of the main presenters of ‘the sky at night’ now. She has been doing it for several years now and her enthusiasm and intelligence shines through.

Canada geese mural

Posted on December 15, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Canada geese, Design, Five years ago, Lake, Life, Memories, mural painting, Reeds, Water, Water fowlLeave a comment

From about 5 years ago, a mural I painted in a friends downstairs cloakroom. I remember it took me several days and I was driving home quite a distance each evening. I wish I could still do this sort of thing. I’d previously done murals for my friends in their old house. They included the words life, love, laugh in their living room, Mr incredible, batman, superman and spiderman in their sons bedroom and a Laura Ashley floral pattern blown up and painted in pale green on their bathroom wall. I’m glad the geese turned up on my Facebook memories, it reminded me of all the lovely things I painted for my friends.

Band drawing

Posted on December 14, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white, Boxes, Drawing, Ink pen, Life, Stuff, TimeLeave a comment

Finally drawn (no pun intended) back to #bandofsketchers. Here’s some ‘stuff’ I need to sort out. I must try and do more sketches

Carol concert

Posted on December 14, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged agnostic, Carol concert, Carols, Christmas, Church, Fun, Life, Music, Singing, Time, vicarLeave a comment

It was singing at the Church carol concert tonight. I felt proud, I think because I hadn’t been rehearsing due to my broken rib, people were surprised. I got a few compliments at church and when I got home a couple who had been up at the concert stopped to say I’d got a lovely voice!

Strangely when I was having a mince pie during the intermission I had a discussion about being agnostic with the local vicar! I don’t know what got into me!

Cat

Posted on December 11, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged 5 minutes, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Life, pen sketch, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He was sleeping then he woke up! Quick 5 minute pen drawing of one of my cats. I was watching the portrait artist of the year and the only thing I could do was my cat. It turned out reasonably I think.

Moving stuff

Posted on December 10, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged clearing up, Floor, Furniture, Grief, Life, Moving, organising, Sadness, Space, Tidying2 Comments

It doesn’t look like much but I can see the floor. It means that the people taking some furniture out for me will be able to get through.

It’s taken me a year of grief to get to this point. I have had to get rid of things I might have wanted to keep. To say “goodbye” to things that have sat in the same place for years. The “that will come in handy” stuff, the “oh don’t throw that away, I’ll have it”, stuff.

I have also uncovered a large patch of damp under one of my windows, I will have to be responsible and get it patched up. Time, maybe, to stop ignoring things?

Mallaband-Brown

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