Deleted photos

Posted on May 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Deleting, Life, Memory, Photos, Thinking, thousands, Time, WordPress, WordPress media libraryLeave a comment

I’ve got too many photos in my phone. It’s crept up to over 17000 and it’s hard to delete them. The personal ones are really hard to let go. I’m attached to so many of them. I’m not sure if I can wave them goodbye. They do hold me in the past. Tie me together like wrapping paper and string.

The WordPress account only allows a maximum amount of memory and I keep hitting 100 %, so every so often I delete pictures. If I can I remove the free photos from the free photo library, or blurry, not very good ones from my own pictures. I know it’s not what I want to do, but I can’t afford to take on a bigger package. Anyway that means some posts are now lacking images. But I try to delete as few as I can. X

My sad garden.

Posted on May 22, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Memory, Plants, pots, Spring, Summer, Thinking, Time, Wishing2 Comments

Normally by now I would be showing you beautiful photos of my garden, but I hardly go out the back door anymore. My hubby used to carry in bags of compost and I would refill pots with it and buy plants to fill them. But now I need help. I want to be sure I won’t fall or trip up! Must get some help. X

I miss the sea

Posted on May 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Driving, Life, Memory, Ocean, Poem, Poetry, Postcard, Regrets, Sea, Thinking, tide, ViewLeave a comment

I see the sea and wish

I could be there to see it.

Sending postcards to

Wish you were there

Friends and family

When will I go back?

It’s not far away in distance

But it is in time

I don’t know if I can go now.

I lost my confidence

Don’t feel safe

Travelling the distance….

The tide is out for me.

Early work

Posted on May 13, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged aged 20, boyfriend, College work, early work, Fine Art, Memory, Oils, Painting, Portrait, TimeLeave a comment

#earlywork a portrait I did of my then boyfriend, later husband when I was about 20 at college. It’s oil on canvas. I haven’t managed to photograph it all as there’s stuff in the way. The green dot on his face is a beam of light from a crystal glass mobile I’ve got up at my window.

Gemini

Posted on May 1, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Doodle, Gemini, Gone, Loss, low mood, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, TwinsLeave a comment

Twin gone over two years

Memories fade away

I don’t want to miss her

I want her back

Too much loss

Fed up

I don’t know

What to do?

Digital drawing does not represent either me or my sister..

Bird doodle

Posted on April 28, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Black and white, Childhood, Doodle, Fun, Imagination, Memory, Silly, Sketching, squeakLeave a comment

I love my little notebook, getting filled up with sketches and doodles and bits of writing prompts. This bird recently appeared squeaking and squaking (odd word spelling I know) on the page. With this drawing comes memories of drawing odd bits when I was a child. I used to try and draw butterflies and moths and horses too. It is about learning to draw and freeing your imagination. Art is life!

I’ll never see Cardiff

Posted on April 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cardiff, Gone, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Thinking, Time, Travel, Uwist, VisitLeave a comment

We used to dream of visiting Cardiff

The Welsh capital city

Where you went to Uwist university

But I was getting ill

I couldn’t drive there

And your anxiety held me still

We’d go next summer

Before it was too late

But we ran out of time

That was our fate

Never to see the city

Where you studies science

Now there is no visit

Only cold silence.

Keep forgetting to post

Posted on April 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Questioning, Thinking, Time, Tired, WritingLeave a comment

Writing is hard sometimes

Thinking of things to say

When I’m exhausted

Thoughts stray

Are unkempt like my hair

Struggling to make sense

Of my course through life.

I’m writing in a book too

Fighting with prompts

Trying to decide

What to say and do.

Lovely flower

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Colourful, Flowers, Gardening, Hope, hopes, Life, Memory, Photo, Plans, Thinking, YardLeave a comment

I don’t remember taking this photo. I think it might be from a free photo library. It’s in my media files. Anyway I just want to start planting up my pots with lovely flowers like this. Ideally I’d like a friend to be here to keep an eye on me and perhaps help with heavier pots. I love creating a colourful garden in the yard for the summer. Fingers crossed I can still do it.

Two more cat doodles.

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2017, Art, bad photo, Cartoon, Cat, Designs, Doodle, Fun, Ideas, Memory, Pottery, Sketches, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

From 2017. Quite eccentric ideas for cards and Stoke-on-Trent that I was playing with. We are known as the potteries because that’s what is mainly manufactured here. I had a bit of a play with scale. Sorry they are not good photos. My odd humour.

Mallaband-Brown

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