What to do for New Year’s Eve.

Posted on December 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Celebrate, Covid, History, Life, Local pub, Memories, New year, New years eve, Time, Virus4 Comments

I guess we won’t be going anywhere this New Year’s eve. And yet that’s not a bad thing. Usually we visited friends to get away from the noise at the pub across the road. They were always rowdy and played very loud music that had such a loud base beat that it shook the house. Dum dum ddiiddi dummmm.. Each year seemed to get worse. I didn’t complain because that’s what people do.

So what shall we do, we might go for a walk in the afternoon if it’s not too icy. I think it would be nice to find our scrabble set, or a chessboard. I do sound like an old fuddyduddy, but I just want to be cautious. Virus news is that the infection is escalating. I’d rather stay in and be safe….

Low barometer

Posted on December 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Barometer, Cold, Life, Low pressure, Millibars, New year, pressure, Snow, Snow storm, Storm warning, WeatherLeave a comment

This was probably the biggest drop in pressure that I’ve seen on my barometer I have two electric ones that measure the pressure too and they were actually reading 962 and 958! What a drop! The gold coloured marker was what the reading was twenty four hours before. Something like 22 millibars? The result was a three inch dump of snow over the Midlands and south of England and Walesby. More snow is due tonight, but probably in the East and up in Scotland. Might be fun over New Year….

Wassail

Posted on December 21, 2020December 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple, Boundaries, Celebrate, Cider, New year, Parish, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Traditions, WassailLeave a comment

Drink mulled cider

Dance and turn

beat the apple bough

Sing and burn

Fires to fight

And defeat the dark

Bring good fortune

To the bark.

Wassail the folk

Who sing in praise

A happy new year

And prosperity raise.

Remembered wassail

But not this time

Socially distanced

Won’t be the same.

Happy New year

Posted on December 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2019, 2020, Best wishes, Good wishes, Life, New beginning, New year, Time6 Comments

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As New year approaches, I want to wish all the people who follow my blog, and who I have made friends with over the last couple of years, a Happy and Healthy New year for 2020. I know it doesn’t happen at the same time across the world and in some places its already late in the morning of January 1st. Others won’t be celebrating until hours later.

Wherever you are in or on the World, with all the terrible things that have happened, or are happening, may you find peace, and caring, and love. If your year was good in 2019, I hope that continues.

It doesn’t matter who, or what you are. I hope your life, and that of your families and friends is good in 2020.

Best wishes.

An ordinary Saturday

Posted on December 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Life, Life Christmas, Memory, New beginning, New year, Pause, Poem, Poetry, Thinking, Year endLeave a comment

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No glitterball today,

no sparkling champagne.

Just leftovers and dregs,

an ordinary Saturday.

We’ve enjoyed the holiday,

and more is to follow

but now it is time,

for life to settle.

Time passes on,

the world keeps turning.

The decade almost done,

a new one beginning.

So let us all pause

and rest for a day,

Take stock of our past

call it good old Saturday.

Last Day

Posted on December 31, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2018, 2019, Blogging, Life, New year, Time, Year endLeave a comment

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It’s the last day of 2018. 2am, only 22 hours to go till 2019.

How do I feel. Well I’ve started then stopped doing a couple of things this year, including not being able to get to urban sketchers because it clashes with another art group. Not persevering with trumpet lessons because I was feeling down, and almost giving up on archery because I’ve been too busy.

The wonderful thing is though that I have tried my hand at these things. Where before I never had time to do them. I know I need to get back to them and I think when we have brighter days I won’t be in such a hibernation mode. I guess part of it is trying to do more with my partner. I don’t want him to be isolated. He needs to get out there and do things but his mind is not in a good place..

I know there is a lot of talk about mental health but I won’t go into details. I just wrote a long paragraph explaining it all then decided to delete it. Sometimes things need to stay private.

So anyway, we are passing from one year to the next. It’s an arbitrary marker of time. I guess it does signify the return of the Sun over the next few months. Time does seem to go faster with age. Clocks tick…….

So as the season is merry I shall wish you all a happy healthy and fun 2019.

Some of my paintings from 2018

Posted on December 30, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics on canvas, Art, Blogging, Design, Fun, Instagram, Life, New year, Patterns, Photos6 Comments

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Everyone seems to be posting 9 of their best pictures on Instagram at the moment. I don’t know what app they are using so I just posted these. Mainly commissions plus my stall which I had at Spode earlier this month.

So I hope you all have a lovely New Year’s Eve and a great 2019!

Blue show

Posted on December 2, 2018December 2, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blog, Design, Ideas, Life, New year, Painting2 Comments

Blue has been chosen as a theme for an exhibition at Spode in the new year. The plans are only just in the pipeline. But the theme means that artists will only be using a true blue, no turquoise or violet.

Other colours allowed are white, grey and black.

I have plans, I have an image in mind. Possibly two, and in totally different directions. I’m also thinking of going large.

I think it will be fun and challenging. Once I find out more I will post more information.

Mallaband-Brown

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