Esther Chiltons weekly prompt : Post

Posted on March 12, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged abroad, Birthday, Cards, Christmas, Life, Memory, Post, postman, Present, relative, TimeLeave a comment

Post,…. A relative lives abroad with her partner. I need to remember to send a birthday card and an anniversary card together as the occasions are within a day of each other. Also I’m posting them early (it’s a month away), because it took three weeks to get her Christmas card delivered to her. I also won’t post her presents as she had to pay import tax on the one I sent at Christmas, which cost her more than the price of my gift! The reason for the late delivery of the card ? Her postman waits until he’s got enough letters together before he delivers them!

Singing tonight

Posted on March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Alto, Bass, Choir, Enjoyment, Life, Music, Practice, Rehearsals, socialising, SopranoLeave a comment

Choir was hard tonight, we were somehow bad with our timing, a bit out of tune and spent 40 minutes going over one piece of a song. We all seemed a bit tired, and our section was singing the main tune (we generally sing the backing part). It didn’t help that were singing “to make you feel my love” by Bob Dylan, but some of us were singing the Adele version!

By the time we had finished we had warmed up to the rehearsal and sounded a lot better.

Being in a choir is great for your mental health and helps you socialise, you can find lots of local choirs in the UK, so why not try it out?

Dear Me

Posted on March 10, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 100 years old, Age, Ageing, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1873, Health, Letter, Life, Memory, prediction, TimeLeave a comment

Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.

Dear Me.

I’m surprised I’m still alive, I didn’t expect that!

After Trumps final impeachment the world turned upside down for a while, then the whole “asteroid” thing in ’32 gave us a real scare. It was then that the world rallied and instead of warring turned our nuclear missiles at “the BIG ROCK”. Luckily it was forced off course and is likely to pass out of the solar system in a few years.

After that? Well you know what happened, climate change, another pandemic. That takes us to today, my 80th birthday. Only twenty years till I might reach 100. I’m glad that new medication to cure various diseases has just been announced. I just hope they also rejuvenate people and turn back ageing. It’s strange to think in a few years time my body might be physically younger than I am now? Great that some dementia has been reversed too. Maybe I’ll have to work a 40 hour week when I reach the big 1OO! Life is strange. Good luck and look after my future self. Live long and prosper! Nanu Nanu!

Regards,

Yourself xxx

A garden centre

Posted on March 9, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1872, filling up, Flowers, Fruit, Gardening, Happy, Life, Poem, Poetry, Shopping, Shrubs, TreesLeave a comment

Where would you go on a shopping spree?

I’d buy more flowers

Bushes or trees

Filling the borders

Cheering for me!

I’d fill up my car

With baskets of bulbs

Glorious fruits

Perennials and shrubs

With a few new tools.

To complete the spree!

Catty

Posted on March 8, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Age, back and white cat, Cat, Life, Photo, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

On my lap

Looking sweet

Purring happily

He looks so neat

Black and white

13 year old friend

He keeps me company

My heart he mends.

One day my joy

Will come to an end

I’ll be very sad,

my heart will rend.

Auroras again?

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 4am, Auroras?, Clouds, Green, Life, long exposure, Night, Nighttime, PhotographLeave a comment

I could see an odd colour in the sky last night at about 4am , just vague because it was cloudy. So I took a long exposure (60 second) shot.

I posted this on Threads and someone then told me it’s not possible to photograph an aurora through cloud? But I don’t know how thin or dense the cloud was and also my camera shake makes everything look extra blurry.

If this isn’t an aurora, (maybe reflected through gaps in cloud), what has caused this?

Fairy tales?

Posted on March 6, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged amusing, Brian Froud, Fairy, Funny, illustrated, Lady Cottinghams Pressed Fairy Book, Life, pressed, squished, Terry Jones2 Comments

From Pinterest Lady Cottinghams Pressed Fairy Book, by Terry Jones, illustrated by Brian Froud.

Have you seen this book? It’s a really strange and funny book illustrated with squished fairys. The story is that a little girl who accidentally snaps a fairy in her book, and then gradually collects more and more in her book. They are the essence of the fairys, their spirits, and incredibly cheeky looking.

Each illustration has notes of the capture alongside them. As Lady Cottingham grows up her writing improves and her speculation about the fairy world and the intensions of the “wee folk” gets more involved. I really enjoyed it.

Adders

Posted on March 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cliffs, Climbing, diamond pattern, golden, grass snake, Hubby, Life, Nature, Snakes, venemous, viper, Youth2 Comments

Speaking to a friend in America about snakes reminded me that there are a few species here including the most venemous one, the Adder. It’s recognisable by the diamond pattern on its back.

My hubby was climbing cliffs in Devon when he was young and put his hand onto a hand hold. He realised to his horror that it was a nest of Vipers! He told me he had nightmares for weeks afterwards.

But there are grass snakes which are lizards not snakes, they have vestigial legs I think. We found one basking in the sand on a Devonian beach one summer holiday. It glinted gold in the setting sun. Wonderful.

I’ve had a varied life…

Posted on March 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cars, Cycling, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1867, eoroies, Hubby, Life, Together, Travel, WorkLeave a comment

You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?

I’ve had a varied life, most of it devoted to art, but I’ve also managed to cram a lot of experiences into it.

I would then go on to detail sow of the art work I have done, but also the adventures I’ve had with my hubby, who was a most eccentric man. Our main mode of transport when we were younger was by bicycle and then a series of pulled old cars that consequently meant we had a lot of situations to deal with. My jobs were also varied and I would talk about as much as I could without disclosing personal information. I am not sure if it would be interesting to anyone else though?

Happy eighth blogging anniversary to me!

Posted on March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anniversary, bot, eight years, Grateful, Life, my own thoughts, Thinking, Time9 Comments

This came up in my WordPress a few weeks ago together with a blog saying something along the lines of “wow, it’s amazing I’ve been with WordPress so long and here’s to another eight years.” I don’t mind but I do prefer to write my own blogs rather than some bot writing them for me!

I hope my blog is interesting, sometimes humorous, hopefully informative. I don’t think I am as varied as I used to be. Maybe I’m running out of steam. Anyway hope to be around for a few more years. Cheers x

Mallaband-Brown

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