Expensive

Posted on March 16, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged brake pipes, brakes, Car, Expensive, Life, old car, pre 2000, Repairs, Time, TravelLeave a comment

I just had to have work on my car. It had lots of problems with corroded brakes and break pipes, plus my old mechanic has retired. So I don’t think I got as much support as we have had for the last twenty years or so. My car is pre 2000 so parts are hard to get.

It’s worrying because I don’t think I will be able to afford to have it fixed again next year

It also has several advisories that show that there will be similar problems or worse next year. I will have to think outside the box. Really I think I need an automatic, I want to stay safe on the road.

Gratitude book

Posted on March 15, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1878, gratitude, Life, Memories, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Thoughts4 Comments

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

My gratitude book it is blank

I feel like I’ve nothing to thank

Thinking all things are bad

When there is some good

But I keep on getting so sad…

I may try and fill in the blank

Pages with three thoughts a day

But it’s been so hard

To find the right way

I really don’t know what to say.

Words and drawings

For over a year

I collected my

Thoughts so dear

But then in December

Bad things I remember

Made me give up

On any small cheer.

I’ll start again one day

If my troubles do go away

My mind is in rubble

With no happy bubble

I hope that’s not how I will stay.

Cat on the bath

Posted on March 14, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bathroom, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Life, Poem, Poetry, splish splash, Tuxedo cat, WaterLeave a comment

Coming into the bathroom

You always want to know

What I’m doing.

Paws dip into the water

From the tap

A delicate splish splash…

Lick paw and return

To the gentle trickle

Silver sparkle

Nose wet

You saunter off..

Ginger cat

Posted on March 13, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged aacrylic on canvas, Art, Cat, courtyard, Fine Art, Flowers, ginger cat, Imagined, Life, Painting, WallLeave a comment

An imagined cat on a white wall. The plants make it feel like a courtyard. I had fun with the paint mixing different tones and colours . The cat is a ginger tabby staring out of the painting. Acrylic on canvas.

Green woman self portrait

Posted on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Green man, Green woman, Hubby, Life, Memory, self portrait, Time2 Comments

This is the partner painting to the green man portrait of my hubby. They mean a lot to me. I intend to put them up together in my house once my exhibition is over. It’s about A4 size, probably a little bigger. I used some silver metallic paint on it to give it a slight shimmer. Acrylic on canvas. Painted a few years ago.

Trying to answer!

Posted on March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black cat, Consequences, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1875, finally answered the prompt, Life, superstitionLeave a comment

Are you superstitious?

I’m superstitious about some things, not walking under ladders for instance, or saluting when I see a single Magpie (only after my friend told me about doing it). In the UK black cats are lucky so I don’t worry if I see one.

I wanted to answer this prompt, but for some reason the prompt says I’ve already answered it. I’ve had to go through a couple of extra pages to get here. Should I be superstitious? I think the human brain looks for patterns. If something goes wrong after you walk under that ladder perhaps you have tempted fate? Maybe something bad will happen if you do it again? But the person up the ladder that dropped paint on you might have laughed or been really sorry. Consequently he’s not going to be superstitious about it. The lesson is learned by the victim…

Old paintings

Posted on March 11, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Black and white cat, Cats, Friends photo, Life, Memory, Painting, Poppies, TimeLeave a comment

Two small, quick paintings of cats that I painted years ago. My friend sent it to me recently. Both of them have also got poppy details. I will see if I can zoom in on them to see if I can get clearer views of them. I know they are mine, but I genuinely can’t remember painting them. That makes me feel guilty, I think I should recognise all of my work. Memory frays as you get older x

Lands end

Posted on March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged farthest north, farthest south West, Fine Art, Holiday, John O'groats, Lands End, Life, Painting, SeascapeLeave a comment

The end of the land, a toe dipping into the Atlantic Ocean, most South Westerly point of Mainland England. The destination or leaving point you can go to or from if you want to travel the length of Britain. The other end of the trail is John O’Groats in the very far north of mainland Scotland.

We only visited once in the 1990’s and didn’t get to the actual Lands End sign because the area had been taken over by a company and we couldn’t afford the admission fee! We went up the coast into the next bay and stopped off for a clotted cream tea before going back to out camp site. I’d like to visit again one day, although I think that’s a remote possibility, (pun intended!). This is a painting I did after the visit.

A sprinkling of snow

Posted on March 10, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dusting, Flour, Food, Icy, Life, Memory, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Snowy, sprinkling, Sugar, Trees, WeatherLeave a comment

A year ago

We had a sprinkling of snow

Like caster sugar

Dusted on cakes

Or a shake of flour

On a rolling pin and board.

Or icing sugar

On tasty mincepies

Just a soupcon or two

Of white, powdery, crystals

Not today

It was just wet

And grey…

Pinned down

Posted on March 10, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged bed covers, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Life, Pinned down, Sleeping, Snoring, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

A year ago my cat had pinned me down on the bed! I didn’t usually have my phone with me but on this occasion the stars aligned and as I woke up, stuck, I decided to take her photo. Nowadays she sneaks under the covers next to me. She will maybe stay still for ten minutes, sticking her claws in me as she kneads away at my leg or side. Then, I think she must overheat, she will rush out and escape. One of the other cats sleeps above the cover and gently snores. If they see each other they sometimes hiss at each other, but generally they are chilled about things.

Mallaband-Brown

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