Bonfire night 2025

Posted on November 6, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Cats, Colours, fireworks bonfire night, Guy Fawkes, Night, petrified, SparklingLeave a comment

*Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and pl*ot.

For the last couple of weeks fireworks have been going off in the UK to celebrate bonfire night and possibly eid and Halloween too. But last night was the loudest and longest session.

I’d been out and was driving home. At the top of our hill I could see the flashes and bangs of massive fireworks across the city. The weather was clear and dry so I could see a lot of sparkling colours. I’m glad I went home, my poor cats were petrified. I’d forgotten to leave the radio on to drown out the noise. They soon settled down though x

I was driving so couldn’t take a photo but decided to try and draw an idea of a rocket going off in my Artrage app.

Last night

Posted on May 4, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acting, Garden, Neighbours, Night, Noises, Phone call, Police, Sound, Thinking, Worry1 Comment

Last night I thought I heard movement in the garden, a bit of noise, something rattled. I didn’t know what to do so I opened the back door. I think the noise was coming from a neighbouring property but just to be on the safe side I made a noise to make them aware someone had noticed. Then I did something strange. My phone was on charge but I pretended I was speaking to the police! I had a one sided conversation and left gaps as if I was listening to their response. It went something like this…..

Hello

Police please?

Hello, I’m ringing from…..

I can hear movement and think there is someone in my garden.

Yes it’s been happening for a few minutes.

You’ve got someone in the area?

Thank you

Ten minutes? I’ll lock the door and wait..

It was a bit like improvised acting. I don’t know why I did it. I wasn’t going to go outside, and I wanted to make anyone out there aware they might be caught. I feel a bit daft now. Was I right to do it?

Auroras again?

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 4am, Auroras?, Clouds, Green, Life, long exposure, Night, Nighttime, PhotographLeave a comment

I could see an odd colour in the sky last night at about 4am , just vague because it was cloudy. So I took a long exposure (60 second) shot.

I posted this on Threads and someone then told me it’s not possible to photograph an aurora through cloud? But I don’t know how thin or dense the cloud was and also my camera shake makes everything look extra blurry.

If this isn’t an aurora, (maybe reflected through gaps in cloud), what has caused this?

Shortest day

Posted on December 21, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dark, daylength, Hemisphere, Memory, Night, North, Solstice, South, Summer, Tipped, WinterLeave a comment

People were meeting for sunrise at Stonehenge this morning as today was the shortest day of the year in the northern Hemisphere. This is the Northern winter solstice.

Apparently the day was less that 8 hours long, although it was so cloudy and grey it might have been shorter for all I could tell.

Of course on the equator days and nights are pretty much of equal length and I presume the Southern Hemisphere had its longest day either yesterday or today. What will it be like in six months when it’s summer here again? Who knows.

Night

Posted on December 2, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2140, Fireworks, Night, preference, Prompt, Thinking, Warm1 Comment

Are you more of a night or morning person?

Night is good for fireworks, comets and supernovae. You can’t see them well in daylight.

Also exciting things like auroras and the bright glow of volcanoes.

You might be able to see the milky way galaxy, planets and meteors.

Not that I’m obsessed with astronomy.

Also when you go inside you can watch interesting films on TV.

Daytimes? Well if you are looking forward to nice weather you can sometimes be lucky and get sunshine. But isn’t watching a thunderstorm at night more exciting? And reading a book in bed is relaxing.

Plus, getting up early in the morning it’s often cold. I prefer to stay snug, thank you.

Sunset

Posted on November 16, 2024November 16, 2024 Posted in MemoriesTagged Collage, Evening, Leaves, Night, Pattern, Silhouette, Sky, Subtle colours, Sunset, TimeLeave a comment

Another symmetrical view of the sky and vegetation. I just like the subtle patterns they create. Colours and silhouettes. Making the most of the sky before blackness descends. Also taking my mind off a unusual thumping headache, possibly because I’m sleeping downstairs because of my aching ribs. Ah wee, got to keep myself occupied.

Ginger cat

Posted on November 4, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Fun, ginger cat, Life, Moon, Night, orange cat, Owl, Poem, Poetry, Shining, Sleeping, stripyLeave a comment

Sleep little cat

Enjoy your rest

Tomorrow you will be at your best,

Having a prowl

Look at that owl?

Seen by moonlight

Stars ever so bright

Having fun and delight

During the night,

So rest and take your ease

Enjoy it, if you please. X

Clocks going back

Posted on October 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged changing the time, Clock, Darkness, extra hour in bed, falls back, Night, Poem, Poetry, TimeLeave a comment

Time flies forward

Slides past

But falls back

Next weekend.

An extra hour

But darker earlier

The light fades

Time seems to slow

Nights distances lengthen

I hate it.

Bring back the sun

Or leave the clock alone!

Bright auroras

Posted on September 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aurora, Bright, camera shake, Green, Night, Overcast, Photography, Sky, View, yellowyLeave a comment

Taken last night about 1.30am. I could see the sky was overcast, but it looked strange so I took photos again…. I think it must have been another aurora?

60 second exposures, sadly I can’t control the camera shake. I did not change the brightness or contrast, or alter them in any way. I only zoomed in a bit because the window looked to small in the original picture in my bedroom. I guess this shows if you can persevere you can get something interesting.

It happened again!

Posted on September 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 2am, Aurora, camera shake, England, Midlands, Night, Northern lights, Parkinsons, Photography2 Comments

Auroras again. Last night at 2am. Looking West. This is a 60 second exposure taken on my phone camera which stacks images when my phone is set on night exposure. Midlands in England. How can I be so lucky? Never seen them until this year.

How did I know it was happening? I saw the weather forecast again so I decided to look out at midnight, but that photo was mainly blue with grey white splodges. So it was overcast. Then when I looked again just before bed the sky was darker and something seemed to be happening so I took a few photos ( I can’t explain how dim it was and I basically just risked taking a picture.) the main problem is trying to keep the camera still by leaning against something as my Parkinsons is getting more shaky

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Night