Computers!

Posted on May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Computer, enter, Fun, information technology, Life, Memory, programming, Sketch5 Comments

Reading a blog about computers and computer programming today I suddenly remembered an incident that happened over forty years ago.
I didn’t know how they worked and I was just starting college. I went in an exhibition about information technology. I saw on a computer screen a message which said something about typing the answer to a question and it would then play a game.
I typed in the answer, nothing happened. I did it again and again, nothing? The original question disappeared off the top of the screen….frustrated I gave up.

There was no-one there to explain what had happened. There was no one there to tell me you had to press enter!

Roses

Posted on May 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black paper, faded, fallen petals, Life, Memory, Metallic paint, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Sad1 Comment

Metallic paint on black paper

Pale roses with red edges

Starting to fade

And fall

Soon your petals will drop

The vase emptied

Water poured away

Paint can fade too

Lost in a sketchbook

Somewhere in my mind.

Losing friends

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artist, Friendship, Gone, Internet, Loss, Memory, Passed away, Sad, Sadness, Thinking10 Comments

When you open up Facebook you don’t expect to hear that a friend has passed away. Someone who I admired. A good artist and a compassionate and sensitive man.

I guess I would rather find out than not know at all. Waiting to see if he would post new art, or a post about how he was feeling. He went missing for a couple of months about two years ago. He eventually turned up and everything turned out OK.

Now, I don’t know. I guess I’m glad I met him on a website and saw his art, he lived in a different country so we were never going to meet up. But that doesn’t matter, he was a very good artist and was a thoughtful person.

I lost another friend in a similar way last year. This was a woman from overseas. Another artist.

The internet allows people who would never normally meet to find each other. At least I’ve found out what has happened. Feeling very sad.

Remembered scary tree

Posted on April 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Drawing, faded memories, History, Life, Memory, Sketching, Spooky, Time, TreeLeave a comment

Oh I used to run past this tree. I was convinced as a child that it was inhabited by a ghost. As part of this terms college work we had to remember some landscape from our childhood and this was what I thought of.

I’ve probably missed out trees and I can’t remember if there were houses in the background. But it will remain with me forever!

Stop taking photos?

Posted on March 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bench, Christmas wreath? Poem, Colours, Memory, Photo, Poetry, Seat, silk bowsLeave a comment

Why should I?

Seeing this on a bench.

I took a photo

Why not?

Someines memory,

A lost Christmas wreath.

Someone used to sit here?

Recalled in dead foliage

And silk bows..

Local landmark

Posted on February 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black calligraphy pen, Coloured pencil, Drawing, Felt pen, Life, Memory, Sketch, SpringLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was local landmark. We had a walk round the main Hanley Park and also the small park which had this fountain in. The last time I saw it, it was frozen! But tomorrow is the first day of spring, and it was a pleasant and sunny afternoon. Here is my pencil and felt pen depiction of the fountain.

Photo troubles

Posted on February 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged full phone, full storage, lack of memory, Life, Memory, Photos, SD card, Shared files, thousands of pictures5 Comments

I have too many photos on my phone, some on its drive and some on its SD card. I have thousands… I tried putting some on my pc from the phone. I have a USB cable with a connection to the phone. I found the bit on the pc that allows you to upload photos, but the pc can’t seem to find them on my phone? I tried Bluetooth. The phone found some woman’s phone nearby, it not my pc. I looked for Bluetooth on my pc but couldn’t find it?

I tried uploading to the cloud, but Samsung no longer supports it, or at least won’t from 30.3.21..? I have one drive, but my phone seems to have another type. My friend suggested I download Google photos. So I looked and I already have it on my phone. I’m not sure it’s on the pc though? Life was simple with film and physical photos. I will have another go but it’s frustrating.

Fuzzy photo

Posted on February 9, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Factories, Forty years ago, industry pollution, Life, Memory, Photo, Scene, TimeLeave a comment

photo across the ages from forty years ago when I first went to college. Why? The sky was dirtier, there was dust and smoke in the air from places like the Michelin Tyre Factory. I don’t know if that’s a chimney in the distance or a crane.

Why keep blurry old photos? They link you to memories of a time long gone, of a changed world. Where there was some interest in pollution and ozone holes, but not enough pressure to improve things.

Maybe I should just delete this, but this was a prompt I wanted to use.

A lockdown panto..

Posted on February 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Happy, Humour, Lockdown, Memory, miming, Pantomime, Singing, StageLeave a comment

Shattered. Thought there was another Zoom meeting … But ended up miming to a virtual panto song. We are holding a virtual pantomime in a couple of weeks. Songs and sketches.. (our village hall usually holds a live one in February), so we are doing a ‘locked down in panto land pantomime!!

7 days to go…

Posted on January 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged a lifetime, continuous, Covid19, Life, Memory, once round the sun, Seven days, Tempting fate, Time, YearLeave a comment

This is my 358th continuous day of posting on WordPress. I almost did it before a couple of times, but for whatever reason I crashed back to zero… I hope I can do it this time! Is there a reward for posting every day that we have travelled round the sun? Almost the length of time there has been covid19 in the world? Is it a milestone or a curse being on line every day. I guess it means I haven’t been away on holiday where there was no WiFi… I’m tempting fate!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Memory