Performance

Posted on July 7, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged actors, audience, Fun, Life, Memory, penkhull mystery plays, Performance, Titchy theatreLeave a comment

Play under a gazebo, Titchy Theatre. We had a good attendance and people seemed to enjoy the small, two page playlets. We had a variety of performances, one play imagined life as an elevator where different floors matched with ages of life and what people do then. Like childhood, aging, and even death. Another was about memories of tandem riding, and various memories of the riders, a third about a noisy neighbour. It was really good to see people’s thoughts down on paper, and the actors enjoyed doing it despite only seeing the scripts about an hour before the performance.

Going abroad with a cold

Posted on July 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged channel, Coach, Cold, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1990, Holiday, Illness, Life, Memory, Wine tasting3 Comments

Describe your most memorable vacation.

I went on holiday on a wine tasting tour with my relative. Unfortunately I started coming down with a cold on the coach. Soon my nose was red with sneezing and my throat was sore.

Over the channel and into Europe. I slept most of the way. I had thought that I would be able to order some aspirin in a shop, but I made the mistake of asking for it in a familiar way rather than the proper (formal) way with strangers. I got an disapproving look!

Two days of cold with runny nose. I don’t remember much, I couldn’t taste the wine, I didn’t know how to order food. Half of the trip was during a local holiday so the shops shut at midday.

Eventually it was time to come home. I enjoyed the scenery, the friendly vineyards and wine tasting cellars. But I was glad to be back on the coach.

The highlight? Watching ‘ The hunt for Red October’ video on the TV above my seat. It cheered me up and took my mind off the journey.

Migraine

Posted on July 4, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Brain, Drawing, experience, Eyes, Eyesight, Life, migraine, retinal migraine, Sketching, Vision14 Comments

Had a ‘retinal migraine’ last night, an unnerving experience. I was reading subtitles on TV when they started to go blurry, then the edge of my vision started to sparkle and look jagged, hard to explain, so I’ve tried to draw it. Apparently according to my optician it’s not unusual, I should have covered one eye then the other. If it happens in both it’s an effect in my brain. It cleared up after 20 mins. (if just in one eye, then it may be a problem in one of my eyes).

End of the rainbow

Posted on July 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, dark sky, Life, Memory, Rain, Rainbow, Sketching, Sunlight, Time, Water, Weather4 Comments

I just read a post on Facebook about a rainbow and it bought back memories from the 1980s.

I was outside on a sunny day when dark clouds piled up as a shower passed by. I noticed a rainbow forming and unbelievably the end came down just up the street from where I was, about fifty yards away. I walked forward and it moved away. I tried jogging, but it kept the same distance away, then gradually faded as the sunlight was blocked by clouds behind me. I really think this is a real memory, not imagined…

Say thank you

Posted on July 2, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1987, gratitude, Life, Poem, Poetry, Support, thanks, Thinking, Thought9 Comments

How do you express your gratitude?

With a note or in words

To receive and to give

Make good your gratitude,

Or say it with flowers?

For work of many hours

Giving back your pleasure

Of deeds well done

Or welcome support

In adversity.

For service rendered

Time spent in caring,

Thanks are required and accepted.

Down

Posted on July 2, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged ambulance, Down, funeral, Life, Memory, Penkhull, Police, Shattered, Thinking, Time, Up, will2 Comments

People aren’t around, and if they were I don’t want to bother them. Some memories have been arriving on my Facebook page and I remembered what fun I was having ten years ago. People were there then, a group who worked together. Work was OK, life was satisfying.

Now? I feel shattered, broken, I’ve caught myself crying a few times. I’ve got things planned for later on, so I hope I’ll be OK. Life is up and down at the moment. I’m sharing this here because it’s better to get things off your chest. I need to unstick myself and stop thinking about things. But worries assert themselves.

This was triggered by adverts for funeral plans and wills on the TV and seeing seven or eight police cars and an ambulance up the hill last night. What happened? Are people OK? Nothing in the news, but anxiety bites again.

Penkhull Mystery Plays

Posted on July 2, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Life, Penkhull, penkhull mystery plays, Picasso, Stoke-on trent, Time, Titchy theatre, Village hall2 Comments

Ten years ago, three horseheads of the apocalypse!

Up until Covid we were merrily holding Mystery Plays almost every July. We had a fallow year where we did other things, but the central play was missing. But now a group of residents are working towards a 20th anniversary performance in 2025.

So on Saturday 6th July 2024 we are holding a Titchy Theatre fundraising event to try and enthuse people to get involved for next year. The event will be in Penkhull Village Hall from 12.30 to 2.30pm.

We had fun creating props from willow withies and paper and glue. The horses were based on Picasso style ideas.

Wildflowers in Stoke

Posted on July 1, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Green men, Growing, Life, Pavement, Plants, Stoke-on trent, weedkiller, wildflowerLeave a comment

Wildflowers, on the pavement, Stoke. I can almost see green men in this duplicated image.

There are wildflowers springing up everywhere on pavements. I guess the local council aren’t spraying weeds like they used to. Hopefully the bees are enjoying these bonus flowers.

Thai meal

Posted on June 30, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged beansprouts, Food, Life, Memorial, Memory, Noodles, Restaurant, Thai food, Time2 Comments

Noodles and beansprouts in a spicy sauce with dim sum.?

Enjoyed a lovely meal with a friend. The first time I’ve been to the Thai restaurant since my hubby passed away in December. We didn’t stay very long because memories hurt and I just felt a bit overwhelmed by them. The owner of the restaurant had found a drawing I had done of my hubby when we were there a few years ago. She got it out and put a glass of lager next to it as a sort of memorial. X

Four years ago

Posted on June 29, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Artists block, Canvases, Kingfisher, Life, Memory, Miniatures, Paintings1 Comment

I had just gone through an artists block. Sometimes I can’t paint, I come to a standstill. I don’t think what I was painting was that good, but I’m sure I felt better being able to pick up a paintbrush.

Since then my painting work has been up and down. I don’t always feel up to painting, and various stuff makes it more difficult. Painting isn’t just a physical ability, it’s a mental one as well. Both of those things are affecting me. Life sometimes gets in the way of intention. But I don’t give up. I will probably carry on somehow till the day I die. Art is my imperative in life.

Mallaband-Brown

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