Oops!

Posted on October 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bother, Darn, Drat, Life, Lost pictures, Memory, Oops, Optimizer, Phone memories, PhotosLeave a comment

Remind me not to optimise my photos when my antivirus advises me to! My phone is crammed with pictures, like the one above. But they are all over the place now. They were sort of in date order now anything from last year is stuck together in the file for October 2020. Yes I’ve saved a lot of space, but the recent things I was working on have gone walkabout! Grr

I’m going to have to try and find them again, I’ve got a commission to do and I need those photos! Plus I’ve optimise them, which means they are a lot smaller. And I’ve deleted the originals… But when you have THOUSANDS of photos what can you do?

Grr…

Cat box

Posted on October 6, 2020 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Box, Cat, Fun, Life, Mat, Memory, Oil paint, Painting, Parquet, Stool, Years ago4 Comments

I painted the leather seat if this stool/box about thirty years ago. It used to hold all my old oil paints but they dried out years ago. I unearthed it recently. One of the problems with being an artist I have found, is collecting art materials. I have stuff that goes back years. I tend to think one day things will come in handy. Is anyone else here an artist? Are you the same? Materials cost so much its almost a sin to throw things away.

This is a cat on a mat on a parquet floor. As you can see even then I loved patterns. It’s varnished, but you can see where I must have left a thinners can on the surface that left paint rings…

Cartoon I did years ago!

Posted on September 30, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2draw, Art, Bird, Blogging, Design, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Enjoyment, Fun, Humour, MemoryLeave a comment

Digitally drawn at a website called 2draw. I don’t remember much about drawing it except that kits a true reflection of me! I really do have to draw and create. I think the caw is clearly the call of the bird. I’m pleased with the bold colours and expressive lines.

Darn!

Posted on September 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bench, Bolts, Countersunk, Darn, Drat, Forgot, Memory, Random, Wooden slats2 Comments

I ordered some wood to replace the slats on our bench and it was due to be collected on Tuesday. I paid for it, but I forgot to collect it! The builder was going to put it back together for us. Not sure I can do it myself as I think it will require countersunk bolts! Darn it! Hate forgetting things!

Remembering the panto

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Flat man, Fun, Humour, Life, Memory, Painting, Panto, Pantomime, Penkhull, Scenery, Set design, Stoke-on-Trent, TheatreLeave a comment

In February we were in the local pantomime. It was Aladdin. I also painted the scenery including this cutout of a cast member who had gone through a mangle and had to come out flattened. You would think it was easy. But have you tried painting feet from the back as well as the front? I took photos of the front and back of the person but the feet looked odd? I should have placed them like Charlie Chaplin perhaps? I hope life starts to return to normal and we get to do another panto soon! Oh yes I do! Oh no you don’t!

Watching the tour de France.

Posted on September 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bike, Bike frame, Car, Cycling, Exercise, Life, Memory, Tour de FranceLeave a comment

As an ex cyclist (I fractured my skull in an accident), I have to say how much I admire the cyclists in the tour. In my healthy days I could ride forty or fifty miles. Now I can’t even get on a bike. I’m old and creaky. I wish I could go back to the old days. I never raced but I did Marshall bike races occasionally. My hubby came third in a tricycle time trial. We used to enjoy touring. After the accident I cycled for a year, then the bike collapsed one day underneath me. It came apart, its brazing below the handlebars had been damaged and suddenly the front wheel was stretching away from me and the pedals cluncked onto the road. I got a car. Big mistake.

Watching the tour brings back those memories. I wich I still cycled.

Reflected water

Posted on September 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2018, Canal, Day out, Layout app, Memory, Middleport, Mirrored, Photos, Poppies, ReflectedLeave a comment

From ssummer two years ago. A reflection and mirrored image of the canal surface at Middleport. Taken when we went to see the ceramic poppies that were used to decorate the bottle kiln at Middleport pottery. The art work of thousands of ceramic poppies travelled round Britain in 2018, to celebrate the centenary of the end of the First World War in 1918. If I find a photo of the poppies I will share it.

January sky

Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Caravan site, coach trip, Life, Memory, Mountains, Photo, Sea, Seaside, Sky, SnowdoniaLeave a comment

And January sea, up in North Wales. Wide views looking far away to the Snowdonia range of mountains. How I miss driving along the A55 west, climbing past Chester and Queensferry. Then coming out high above Prestatyn and Rhyl, looking over to the mountains. Swooping down the road to St Asaph, then right over the flat ground towards the coast. I first saw that view when I was about ten or eleven when we took a coach trip to a caravan park near Rhyl. I remember catching a crab on the beach and putting it in my plastic bucket. The crab crawled out and nipped my toe when I put my shoe on in the morning.

We were at the back of the caravan site where the trains from Chester raced past on their way to the station. Holidays were walking along the back and paddling in the sea. Collecting razor shells and other classic shell type shells (still don’t know what they are called), strange how a single view of the sea can drag up so many memories.

Memory

Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Decorated, Fun, Glazed, Jug, Memory, Pottery, Tortoiseshell catLeave a comment

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I just found this memory, I’d decorated this jug, I did it at a local pottery in 2017. Now if I could only find the other side with the cat looking outwards not with its back to us! I think I gave it as a Christmas present. That’s the trouble with random memories if they are not in context. I only know when this was because I painted 2017 on it. By the way it’s meant to be a tortoiseshell cat.

Old measurements

Posted on July 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Area, Currency, Decimalisation, Lengths, Measurements, Memory, Pounds shillings and pence, Size, Volume, Weights and measuresLeave a comment

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We were discussing old measurements this morning and started talking about the transition from the old imperial measurements to metric. I was only a child when it happened and we went from pounds, shillings and pence to pounds and pence during ‘decimalisation’.

I was trying to think of old words for measurements of size and volume. The ones I remember, but don’t know the sizes or amounts are… Gill (still used) , peck, chain, acre (still used), pint (still in use) fluid ounce (still used), mile (still in use). Quart and Gallon(still in use). Stones, Pounds, ounces, (still used). I’m sure there are lots more, but I was young when they changed. You can see Britain over the last fifty years has acted very slowly. It has used dual measurements over the last few decades, with some things measured in litres and kilograms and kilometers.

I do worry that we might have to revert back to the old weights and measures when we leave Europe. Its a mad world we live in! I think the British want to go back and live in a simpler age, like the 1950’s! But we can’t time travel despite having a popular TV programme that does just that! (Dr Who).

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Memory