Being a doctor

Posted on October 8, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, career, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2086, Doctor, Life, Memory, Painting, Thinking2 Comments

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.

I would have to be 40 years younger, have the education to be able to train for the length of time required. I guess it would also be good to come from a well off family. If those things had been my reality I might have liked to be a doctor. I enjoy helping people and trying to solve their problems. That’s why I like these prompts, it means I can think of alternative career paths, or different outcomes.

But to be honest I’m quite happy with my life as it has panned out. I’ve always been an artist, whatever job I’ve had. I’ve painted and created, used my imagination. I might not be famous but a lot of people have bought my work and also commissioned me to paint things for them. I’m just glad I’ve had the freedom to do that.

Crocosmia Lucifloria in bud

Posted on October 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Crocosmia Lucifloria, Gardening, Green, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Red, Shade, SunshineLeave a comment

Summer photo, a couple of years old

The red and green spark off each other

Scarlet red shines in the garden

Drifts of arching flowers in the bed.

Sunlight needed to keep them growing

Shade stopped them in their tracks.

Gone now, the memory of them still cheers.

Swimming a mile

Posted on October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged a mile, breast stroke, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2085, Exercise, Life, Memory, Swimming13 Comments

What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself?

When I was fitter I used to swim. I’m not fast but have stamina so I gradually built up the distance I could swim. My preferred goal was breast stroke.

I found out that a mile was about 40 lengths of the pool so I set a goal to see if I could do it. I slowly built up the numbers, I was limited by the time it was taking me to finish it but after about two or three months I managed it. I have to say I never swam that distance again!

Going

Posted on October 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bulbs, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Memory, Plants, Time, wilted, winter pansiesLeave a comment

These were my plants in summer, now they are starting to wilt. I will be sad when they are gone. I want to time travel to next summer till the next lot of flowers can be planted. I might get some winter flowering pansies to cheer the yard up in the meantime.

I’ve bought loads of bulbs to put in the big garden for winter/spring. Somehow I need to get them planted.

Cry

Posted on October 6, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2082, Hope, Loss, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Survival, ThinkingLeave a comment

What would you do if you lost all your possessions?

What would I do if I lost it all?

Cry for lost memories

Weep for my tranklements

Sigh for my paintings

Scream for my cats

But remember them all

The good times

The joy that they gave

And try to make a new start

A way to cope

Seeking for comfort

Hoping for help.

Loss can destroy

But hope can strengthen

Survival would be my goal.

Losing photos

Posted on October 6, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Chimney, Factory, frustration, Lost, Memory, Mixed up, Optimised, Photo, Pictures, TimeLeave a comment

I decided to optimise my photos as I haven’t done it for a while. Now it looks like 50% of my photos were taken today. Plus they are all mixed up. If I go back a few hundred they were suddenly taken in March. I wish it wouldn’t do that, I’ve been searching for something for half an hour because I wanted to share it? Can I find it? No, so I just decided to post a photo of an old factory from a few months ago. And great to see an undemolished chimney.

Voting

Posted on October 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Change, CND, College, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2081, Memory, Mrs Thatcher, tories, Voting5 Comments

What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?

I voted when I was 19 and followed the family, we were tories, I wanted to see a woman prime minister. I had not left home and had no idea what the real life was about. Then I went to college. An eye opener. I had to live in an old house with no fire, just an open coal fire. The toilet was outside, I showered at the college, I realised that this was not unusual, people had to manage.

Most of my friends were caring, thoughtful and Labour voters. One was in CND, this was the era of protests against Cruise missiles. I saw what Thatchers laws were doing to people. You could see the rich getting richer, the poor, poorer. It was the era of the Yuppie. What can I say? I had to change. I’m glad I did.

My conclusion about this.? My family had held me in one way of thinking. Reality changed my mind. Don’t be afraid to think.

Backing myself into a corner?

Posted on October 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anniversary, corner, Gone, Hubby, Loss, Memory, one year without him, Poem, Poetry, StuckLeave a comment

We met in the September

Moved in together in October

16 years later?

We married.

In 9 minutes it will be our anniversary.

My first without him.

We never really celebrated

He wasn’t into birthdays

Or Anniversaries

A quiet meal

A glass of wine or beer

We were going to be together forever.

The shock when he went

Backed me into a corner.

Nowhere to go

Nothing to do

Surrounded by stuff

That holds me in

Trapped in a corner of sadness

Missing him

And tomorrow? In 5 minutes?

24 hours lost in greif

Playing with Artrage app

Posted on October 3, 2024October 3, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Colours, Deleting, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Memory, Pattern, Sketching, symmetricalLeave a comment

Playing, digital drawing, trying to add colour and using symmetrical mirrors images.

I’ve had to delete several images again as I don’t have enough memory to keep all of them. If you find some of my blogs without a picture, that’s why!

Clouds and blue

Posted on September 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cloud busting, cloud layers, Clouds, Dark, fluffy, Kate Bush, Memory, Weather4 Comments

Looking out of the kitchen window this morning I saw blue sky amidst the white puffy clouds. The clouds were breaking up and merging. Reminding me of the song Cloud busting, by Kate Bush

It didn’t last, soon flat layers of cloud spread across the sky, then darker layers built up, piling up as the wind dragged them across the sky. We were on the edge of them, some yellowish light filtered through the upper clouds. So where are the photos? My phone was out of charge and when it was ready for a picture or two? The sun had set.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Memory