Where did this come from?

Posted on November 2, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Light, Memories, opposite side of the sky, Photo, prism, Rain, Rainbow, Sunset, Time, WhatsAppLeave a comment

WhatsApp photo of a rainbow a friend sent me. For some reason it appeared in my gallery. I get all sorts of photos from friends and I wouldn’t normally share them, but this is Yorkshire terraced house rooves with a rainbow above them. I like the sunset. You can just see an arc of colour in the sky.

The rainbow is above the houses, and the fronts of them are catching the sunlight. It shows how the sun must always be on the opposite side of the sky to a rainbow. The prisms of the rain drops scattering the light.

When I was younger I saw a rainbow coming down to the ground in front of me. It was about 50 yards away. As I walked towards it, it moved away at walking pace. Then I started to jog and it moved away at the same pace as I was travelling.

It was fascinating, and it stayed in my memory, so everytime I see these beautiful light shows I appreciate it.

My 20’s

Posted on November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 20's, camping, Cycling, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2109, Fine Art, holidays, Memories, Murals2 Comments

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

Random photo of a jumper I knitted in my 20’s!

I did my fine art course.

I met my boyfriend.

I cycled everywhere.

I made good friends that I still know.

I created lots of art, including murals.

Basically, despite bad things happening in the world I was very lucky to have a great time. Plus there was punk rock, TV shows like ‘the young ones’. I also bought a bicycle and cycled many miles around the north West of England. My boyfriend and I went cycle camping up to the lake district and cycled round Devon and North Wales on holiday. It’s surprising how far you can go on trains and bikes.

I have so many memories that I still recall. Life was simpler then, I am glad I have them. Plus I knitted the jumper (I never made one before). I remember adding patterns that I completely made up including the red arrows on the sleeve, and space invaders on the bottom of the jumper!

Life I had that I’ll never go back to. I wish I could!

Catching up

Posted on October 26, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Health, Illness, Life, Memories, Parkinsons, Thinking, Youdraw4 Comments

Youdraw drawing. I’m trying to catch up with things but the youdraw interview put me in a spin. So many old memories. Old friends, thinking about what I was doing and what I was capable of twenty or so years ago. And the frustration of no longer having those abilities.

I want to think about how I can get some of it back. I’m going to see if I can get better medication for Parkinsons. Does life have to be this hard? Mentally and physically I’m feeling my age.

Youdraw

Posted on October 24, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 500k.art, Art, Black and white, Books, drawing life, Images, Memories, Sketches, Youdraw4 Comments

https://youtube.com/shorts/EmEBgH30shY?si=Q3TMLxNVdQfRB6Sj

I was drawing at a digital platform called youdraw several years ago. The object was to collect 500,000 drawings.

I’ve recently been contacted as they are going to publish 10 books with contributors art included. I thought I would share the link to my interview. Hope that’s OK…

My first cat…

Posted on October 23, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1st cat, Cat, College, Dad, Home, Memories, student, Time, tortoiseshell cats, YearsLeave a comment

She never usually sat on dad’s lap, but this time she did. Such a loving little tortoise shell cat. I didn’t know then that this sort of fur colouration is mainly female…. I may be wrong. We had another cat too but I dint remember him well, I left home a few years later, and I missed them so much.

Of course when I stayed in student accommodation we weren’t allowed pets, but a year later we took in an old straggly cat that someone was going to have put to sleep. And after that I’ve always had cats… 11 in total… My friends.

Crumpets

Posted on October 17, 2025 Posted in Uncategorized, MemoriesTagged Butter, Childhood, crumpets, Eating, Food, Fork, Gas fire, growing up, Hot, Life, Memories, toasted4 Comments

I used to toast these on the bars of the gas fire when I was a child. We used a fork hooked on by it’s prongs to the horizontal bars in front of the white ceramic blocks that the flames came up through.

Toasting the bottom of the crumpet first, then the top. It would get really hot and the butter would melt all the way down into the bubbled tubes of the crumpet. Delicious x

(not to be confused with English Muffins)

Growing up…

Posted on October 14, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1960's, facilities, History, Memories, programmes, Question, Radio, telephone, Thoughts, Time, TV1 Comment

Someone asked if I grew up with 3 TV channels and no smartphone? My answer:

We watched 1 channel, on black and white TV. God save the queen played when the station closed and then a high tone would play to get you to switch off your TV.

We listened to Radio 1 and the light programme, with Jimmy Clitheroe on at the weekends. My mom got the thunderbird theme tune played on the radio for our birthday.

We had rotary phone (eventually) after we moved house. Then we had spin dryer, boiler/top loading washer with a ringer.

In the old house we had a toilet at the end of the yard but we had one downstairs in the new house. In the old house we had a tin bath. In the new house we had a brand new bathroom. And my parents bought an electric shower. Shall I go on… Memories.

I didn’t post yesterday…

Posted on October 14, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Caring, Cat, Choir, Memories, Music, Singing, Sleeping, TiredLeave a comment

I forgot to post and now it’s 1.04am so I’ve lost my number of days of posting consistently. I have been busy looking after my cat and I went to choir practice. I then fell asleep and I only just woke up. I should really have gone to bed, but the armchair is comfortable and warm. Upstairs is a lot colder because I am trying to save on the energy bill. Anyway, boring post! Goodnight!

The Autumn

Posted on October 12, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Autumn, autumn puddle, Fine Art, Memories, Painting, Poem, Poetry, seasonsLeave a comment

Leaves Fall in Autumn

Flowers spring up in Spring

Summer sums the year up

Winter does what? Wint?

Seasons they are all….

Never know what words mean

They are only sounds,

What is the word Autumn

Two syllables round.

It’s more interesting to say

Than a bland word like fall.

A remnant of history

That our ancient world recalls.

TV memory

Posted on October 10, 2025October 10, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Coal fire, hot water, Letter, licence, Memories, student, Television, TV, Years agoLeave a comment

When I was a student we didn’t have much money. The heating was a coal fire in the living room, no central heating and an old hot water boiler in the kitchen that dribbled a bit of warm water out of the spout occasionally.

Once we had a letter from TV licencing asking if we had a TV. We were students and didn’t. My boyfriend sent the letter back and wrote ‘you can come and park your van outside our house for as long as you want, we don’t have a TV’ signed transistor sisters in anarchy! Later we got a black and white TV. They came and checked, black and white licence, black and white TV. No problem!

It’s strange how these memories come back in the middle of the night. My mind has turned to the distant past and I’m remembering a lot of things that are probably not important but that mean a lot to me.

Mallaband-Brown

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