I don’t

Posted on November 11, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2116, Internet, Knowledge, Life, Memories, podcast, Programme, Prompt, what are they? TV2 Comments

What podcasts are you listening to?

I’ve never got into podcasts, I’m not even sure what they are? Are they radio shows that include video, or TV shows, on the Internet? I guess like anything else they can have their own style and substance.

I don’t have an iPhone, do you need one of those to listen to podcasts? Are they short programmes or long ones. If you call something a podcast does that mean it really is? I watch lots of videos, because I’m a visual person, and although I can pick up a tune or understand an argument, I’m not necessarily an aural person. I’m not into music, not in a big way, I tolerate it, and unless it’s a particular classical style I can pretty much leave it.

Please give some examples of good podcasts, and I will try and catch them?

Camera view

Posted on November 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged alarm, Camera, CCTV, Garden, Life, Phone, Reflection, Sadness, Security, theft, ViewLeave a comment

Leaves falling sets the camera off, cats walking past, our reflections in the window. But I don’t care. We can check if someone’s out there. I’m fed up of feeling like a security guard. If I had a camera when our sheds were broken into we might have put them off, or they might have been caught. Now I can check my phone when I get an alert. Just got to figure it out!

Art

Posted on November 10, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged accomplished, Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2115, Design, Learning, Life, Prompt, School, Subject2 Comments

What was your favorite subject in school?

Forever and ever, Art.

Art at school. I studied many other subjects but Art had my soul from four or five. I used to hang my drawings on strings across my bedroom because I didn’t have enough wall space. My mom would show off my Art to visitors to the house. School sent one of my paintings to our twin town in Germany where it was exhibited. I was asked to do a portrait of a group of school children when a headmistress was leaving.

Art wasn’t the thing to do in many ways. I needed to support my family as we went though some bad times, but my mother supported my wish to go to college. I felt so lucky to be allowed to leave home and learn more about art.

I found out that my ability helped in other aspects of life and jobs. I notice things others miss. I can look at the world and imagine it as a painting. I am good at colour matching, composition, I love to experiment and being an artist makes me more involved in lots of ideas and thoughts.

Would I recommend studying Art to someone? Definitely, cover other bases too, but it has made me a well rounded person. Career choices could be architect, designer, print maker, painter, technical design, surface pattern, ceramicist, sculptor, editor, illustrator, graphic designer, digital media, computer game design, and many more subjects. Go for it if you can. X

Top of the Gingko

Posted on November 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, canopy, Eucalyptus, Gardening, Gingko, Leaves, Life, Plant, Tree4 Comments

I realised I’d taken a photo of the top of the tree too. It’s quite tall. A nice canopy, not spreading too far out, so beautiful and delicate.

As I say, I feel like ordering one. The neighbours might not appreciate it! It can go with the small Eucalyptus tree we have in the centre of the garden? I’ll see.

Gingko?

Posted on November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allotment, Garden, Gingko Bilboa, Google, Internet, Leaves, Life, Tree, unusual plant10 Comments

Seen on an allotment. This tree with strange leaves. They were changing colour and may be gone next week as we are having a cold, wet and windy spell, it may even be frosty in the morning. I think it might be a Gingko?

Yes it is! Gingko Bilboa. Apparently the tree that time forgot according to Mr Google. Now I know I might order one from t’internet as my Yorkshire friend says.

Screen time

Posted on November 9, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged answer, Computer, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2114, Life, Phone, Screens, TimeLeave a comment

How do you manage screen time for yourself?

I don’t manage it well, when my hands get tired I put my phone down, or when I watch something on TV. But I think I’m addicted. I like a couple of word games and play them on my phone, then there’s art, and taking photos of things I like.

Currently I’m watching a very old Alfred Hitchcock film from the 1930’s. It’s a romance. TV screen…

Apart from that I’m on a few social media platforms (too many for my own good! ).

To be honest I wish I could turn the clock back and STEP AWAY FROM THE SCREENS!

Have I bored you?

Posted on November 8, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Boring, Cats, Life, nerd, Questions, Science, Thoughts, Time, topics, Tuxedo cat, what do you want?7 Comments

How do I get readers attention?

Should I write:

Poems, stories about cats, short stories, art, life, Sci fi, a mixture? I try and keep up with the times, but am I boring you? I need to be self critical and also intelligible. Are my posts interesting? I try and be polite, considerate, thoughtful, but I’m probably too old fashioned.

I can’t talk about pop music, and I love science. I try and think things through. I think I must be a nerd

So far this post has been about me (I), but really, what about you?

Have you any suggestions, and ideas, are you interested in knitting or quantum physics? I can’t promise to be able to write about either, but I’m willing to try!

Bench

Posted on November 8, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bench, Breath, gust, Leaves, Life, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Relax, Rest, Robin, settle, Time, trilling, Wind2 Comments

Sit on a bench

Be quiet

Listen to a Robin

Trilling his song.

The wind floats leaves

Wafted from branches

Zig zagging down.

A sudden breeze

Twirls and swirls

In a mini tornado

The gust stops

Leaves settle.

My gaze settles

My breath, released.

Who knows?

Posted on November 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Change, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2112, entropy, Knowledge, Life, Plans, Prompt, Thinking, Time4 Comments

What will your life be like in three years?

Life might change, it might be the same. So much has happened over the last few years that I honestly don’t know. I might move on somewhere else, or stay here. We might have new neighbours. I might win the lottery, but probably not.

We make plans, but life has a way of confusing things. Even if you are strong and rational it doesn’t mean things will always go OK. I don’t mean to be negative though. It’s just that the chaos humans can create around themselves impacts on others too. Disorder happens. Entropy can mean moving from order to disorder. I’m thinking of lots of words that just mean I don’t think I can predict what will happen. I can try and hope though that things will be better.

As you get older life can get sorted out or complicated. It really means you have to have enough money to live on. Sometimes that’s not possible. Better to be organised sooner rather than later.

Cloudscape

Posted on November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blue, Clouds, Grey clouds, Life, Memory, Photo, Rain, scudding, shower clouds, Showers, Sky, white clouds2 Comments

I love piled up clouds, dark and threatening, but with bright white patches, and blue sky (enough to make a sailors britches). You know a heavy shower is on the way, but it won’t last long, and the sun will be shining again.

When I used to walk to school I would chase the shadows of clouds. They would drift along the pavement like lapping waves. I don’t seem to see them any more? Maybe their edges are too fluffy. Or they don’t scud past anymore? Has the, weather changed in the last fifty years…?

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life