Petunias

Posted on July 21, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Hanging basket, Life, Plant, Summer, summer is icumen inLeave a comment

Flowers everywhere. I love these deep pink petunias. It’s a close up of one of my hanging baskets. When the sun shines they seem to glow.

The head in the background is a ceramic one I made about 30 years ago. It’s got a few flowers trailing from it that managed to survive the winter.

There is an ancient song from the 14th century I think?

Sumer is icumen in,
Loude sing cuckou!
Groweth seed and bloweth meed,
And springth the wode now.
Sing cuckou!

Ewe bleteth after lamb,
Loweth after calve cow,
Bulloc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Merye sing cuckou!
Cuckou, cuckou,
Wel singest thou cuckou:
Ne swik thou never now!

We sing this at choir practice (with slightly less difficult wording).

Floral

Posted on July 19, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Design, Floral, Flower, Life, Pattern, Photodirector app, sketchbook app, symmetricalLeave a comment

Taking a petal from my flower photos earlier. I decided to use my sketchbook app to try and create a floral pattern. The symmetry tool was used to create a nine sectioned flower. Then I coloured it in with symmetry and non symmetry. Finally I put this through a scenery filter in my Photodirector app. Not AI but definitely digital.

Cats

Posted on July 16, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Choice, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2002, Dogs, Funny, Humour, LifeLeave a comment

Dogs or cats?

Cats are very loving, except when they give you the cold shoulder! They are aloof but also demanding. They can be funny.

One advantage, you don’t have to take them for a walk, just install a catflap!

They can be cheeky, friendly, mad, crazy, and run about so fast they are like miniature cheetahs!

They like company, and will try and get your attention when you least expect it. Walking over your keyboard and flopping down just as you get to that important clause in the contract you were writing.

By the way I still like dogs, but I’ve grown up with cats and I love them.

Old golden eyes

Posted on July 16, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Food, Golden eyes, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Look at you with your golden eyes

Staring at me, whiskers engaged,

Ready to pounce, or yawn, or sneeze

You just do what you please.

Golden eyes, not green or yellow

But gloriously strong in colour

You know what you want

As you stare at me

Food and cuddles

Clearly!

Visiting gardens

Posted on July 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2001, Garden, Life, Plants, Time, Trentham Gardens, VisitingLeave a comment

Which activities make you lose track of time?

I can’t remember where I took this photo. I think it might have been the Trentham Gardens show gardens?

I lose track of time when I visit (which is not very often). I will try and get a friend to come with me so I can explore a bit further. It takes me a while to walk around a garden, and I frequently take photos so that I can rest on the way round. I’m slow and not sure so handrails can come in handy. But I love seeing how gardens change with the seasons. But sometimes my progress is glacial! I keep checking my heart points on my phone. They generally stick at 0 because I’m so slow!

Lots of things

Posted on July 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bothered, Confused, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2000, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

What bothers you and why?

The world seems upside down inside out

I’m bothered by lots of things.. about

Broken tiles

Corrupt files

Parking woes

A split hose

Not enough bees

Leaves leaving trees

Too hot one day

Too cold the next day

Inconvenient thoughts

Complicated sports

Not enough food

Having a low mood.

They all bother me

I guess that’s how I see

The world

Unfurled.

Shattered

Posted on July 15, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged gripper, Illness, Life, Memories, old age, Parkinsons, Strength, tiredness, weakness2 Comments

Now I’m tired all the time, I try and do things and end up shattered.

I get fed up of having to take tablets everyday. Sometimes they have to be tweaked to adjust how my body copes with things. Currently I’ve stopped one type of tablet and have started on something new. All this takes time to get used to.

Life consists of doing a few things to try and keep contact with friends, but not really being able to cope with day to day tasks. My sister bought me a jar and bottle gripper a few weeks ago. It’s been a godsend because I’ve lost strength in my arms and hands. People of a certain age will have heard of Pansy Potter, the strong man’s daughter. I used to be really strong and, able to pick up heavy weights or open tightly closed jars, what happened to me? I’ve suddenly realised I have got old. I don’t mind looking old, but I wish I was able to get back some of my fitness. I know it’s important to keep moving if you have Parkinsons, but it’s hard when you feel tired. I want to go back in time. I want my life back.

Sorry, moaning over.

Tea?

Posted on July 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged afternoon tea, black glaze, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Sketchfu, Sketching, Tea setLeave a comment

One of my old digital drawings I did a few years ago on a website called sketchfu that has sadly closed. Each week we were set a challenge to draw from a photo. I got quite good at it even though there were only a few tools on the site. I’d like to know what pottery the set was made at. I think it looks quite neat.

Heat pumps?

Posted on July 12, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Air source hear pumps, cookies, gas central heating, Heating, Home, House, Life, StatisticsLeave a comment

I think an air sourced heat pump is like an air conditioning unit in reverse. Apparently as gas use diminishes they could be the new source of heating here in British homes.

So when I saw an advert for it on Facebook I thought I would check out the information. I clicked on the page, but got taken to a website that wanted me to accept cookies and probably sign up for something I’m not sure about?

Am I being paranoid? Probably, but after all the miselling of various schemes over the years I think my attitude is justified.

I left this comment :

‘I need to know the approximate costs. I don’t want to be taken to a website where I will probably be bombarded by adverts. Is it too much to ask for a simple chart to explain the costs and benefits honestly?’

I think that makes my point.

Who’s coming to dinner?

Posted on July 12, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1997, dinner party, Food, Funny, guests, Humour, Life, Meal, Physics, Science2 Comments

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

I’d like to invite Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman.

I don’t know if I would be able to understand any conversation between them. But I have noticed that the three men seemed to have funny senses of humour. The two I know most about were Feynman (one of his books is Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman) and Sagan (who wrote Cosmos and Contact among other books).

All of them were interesting people and I hope they would take pity on my lack of knowledge of Physics and the other sciences. Maybe it would be a difficult meal to host. I would research the food they liked and try and replicate it, but I would have to be careful not to cause them stomach problems!

Anyway it’s never going to happen. Fun imagining the guest list though.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life