An old mug

Posted on June 15, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 20 years, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1930, Handle, Life, Memory, Mug, Pottery, Prompt, turn over club2 Comments

What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

I still use an old mug that I’ve had for over twenty years. There’s a small crack in the top of the handle that flexes slightly when I pick it up if it’s full. One day I think it will either get broken in the washing up bowl or when I pick it up. Hopefully the first option as I don’t want a lap full of decaff!

I do use it virtually everyday but I can’t find it now so I’ve used a stock photo that looks like it. It’s like goldilocks, just the right size for a drink, not too much, not too little. The handle fits my hand just right.

I don’t know the manufacturer, but it’s likely to be local as I live in an area called “the potteries”. You can tell people are from here. They lift up pottery and look underneath for the manufacturer’s mark (backstamp). It’s so well known that its called the “turn over club”!

Tired!

Posted on June 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boring, Cat Food, Cold, Heating, Life, Rain, Shopping, Sleep, snoozing, Tired, WetLeave a comment

What a day! Rain so heavy it must have weighed a ton! A few sunny spells. So cold I put the heating on, snuggled down and snoozed.

As I type I can hear the cars splashing through the rain outside and loud drips falling against the window round the back. At least my new plants and hanging baskets are getting well watered. I need to do some more gardening. Potting plants on, but it’s easier to shiver inside.

What else did I do? I watched a few YouTube videos and got out to get some cat food. Sheer excitement. Hence the pretty flowers, it’s less boring than today.

Standing on a beach

Posted on June 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Beach, Coast, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1969, heaven, Holiday, Life, Memory, Sea, Seaside, Sunshine2 Comments

Describe one of your favorite moments.

It doesn’t have to be a tropical beach. Just a warm, sunny day. Sandals off, toes sinking slowly into damp sand. Little ripples in the sand mirroring the way the sea has moved over it’s surface. A flat beach, not steeply tipped, but shallow enough that the sea goes out a reasonable distance. Not too much seaweed on the beach, but enough to indicate the sea is healthy. Interesting seashells to collect, starfish and barnacles on the rocks or in rock pools.

I stand there, breathing in the ozone of the clear air. Thinking of all the other times I’ve visited. Memories of childhood eating ice-cream and paddling in the shallow sea. Looking back at the houses behind the coast road. Stalls to buy candyfloss or sticks of rock, and fish and chips that seagulls clamour for. Remembering the view of the hills in the distance. Thinking of having to catch a train home and wanting to stay forever, come rain or shine. Bright days, sunshine, coastal views, holidays, Heaven.

Japanese food

Posted on June 13, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bento box, Birthday, Celebration, compartment, Food, Fun, Japanese, Life, Restaurant5 Comments

Bento box at a local Japanese restaurant. It was my birthday treat today. I like how the various types of food are held in compartments so you can mix and match flavours. You chose when main meat or vegetarian portion and the bento comes with rice, salad, sliced pickled ginger, goyoza, sushi, all very tasty. I had roast duck with Teriyaki sauce as my main choice. It was very pleasant sharing the evening with friends and putting worries to the back of my mind.

2 cats

Posted on June 12, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Big cat, Black and white cat, Brothers, Cat, Life, middle, Nighttime, Sister, Sleeping, small, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Sharing the settee, two cats, relaxed and sleeping. They do tend to hang up on their sister though. So she sleeps upstairs and these two snuggle down on the crocheted blanket.

The big cat has started snoring. The middle one sleeps quietly. The third,, small one, hopped up the stairs a few minutes ago. The house is settling down for the night.

Truth

Posted on June 12, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1967, Life, Memory, passionate, Prompt, Thinking, truthLeave a comment

What are you passionate about?

I like truth, I always have, I heard a story when I was little, about a boy that chopped down a tree but owned up to it when asked as he couldn’t tell a lie… I think that was a boy who became an American president.

How ironic that a recent president posts on a website called Truth, but that isn’t necessarily being honest (is this where I say allegedly?).

Why am I passionate about it? It actually makes me feel ill not to be honest. I was bought up as a Christian and although I’m now agnostic, I still feel deeply that truth is important. I feel that people should know the truth about things. The problem with that though is that different people have different truths! I was recently listening to 1984 by George Orwell and it did strike a chord about how the masses can be controlled. Life is difficult and truth is important to me.

Air fryer news

Posted on June 12, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged air fryer, Cooking, Food, Heating, Life, Oven, pressure cooker, Tasty, Tasty food, Timer3 Comments

I used it! After weeks of looking at it and trying to think when to use it my sister decided to get me to cook with it.

I was anxious when u first used a pressure cooker. This was far more simple. Set the heat, set the timer. If things need shaking just set the timer to half the full amount, take the food basket out, shake the food, put it back in and reset the timer for the second half of the cooking. So simple and I didn’t realise that it cooks quicker than an oven!

Playing with fashion.

Posted on June 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Doodle, Drawing, Great British Sewing Bee, Life, Pattern, Photodirector app, SketchingLeave a comment

Watching the Great British Sewing Bee on TV (a TV show on BBC which pits a number of amateur sewing competetors against each other) I drew these trying to channel fashion, remembering old fashioned sewing patterns you could get in the 1970’s. I doodled a design, but not feeling very well so just messing about. I used Artrage and Photodirector to create the patterns.

Spring

Posted on June 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1966, Flowers, Garden, inspired, Life, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Season, SpringLeave a comment

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

Flowers open

First daffodils then tulips

Some promise of primroses

Helibores nod their head

Leaves unfurl and spread

Yellows and golds attract the bees

Their eyes subtle patterns insects see.

Guiding them to nectar

From flowers and trees.

That’s the season set to please!

Sad marigolds

Posted on June 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Gardening, Growing, June, Life, marigolds, Plants, Rain, seasons, Spring, Summer, Weeds4 Comments

Marigolds in a bag, something seems to have broken the flowers off. I’ve got to get them planted but yesterday the rain fall was stupendous. Today the weather was better, but I am very tired. Tomorrow could be the day they get planted. Meanwhile, the forecast is for more rain and cold winds coming from the north. June seems to be below par for the time of year. But I’m determined to get my garden looking good instead of full of overgrown weeds!

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