Dug up!

Posted on June 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bulbs, digging up plants, Food, Fox, Gardening, Hedgehogs, Nature, Night, Plants, Squirrel14 Comments

Something keeps digging up bulbs in the garden, from pots we planted up last autumn. The bulbs have roots on them but haven’t grown yet, (unless they are having the leaves nibbled).

I’ve replanted them a few times, but something comes back and pulls them up again. Not plants, just bulbs? Hubby thinks it’s a fox doing it. I think it’s a squirrel. Has anyone got an idea? The bulbs are in pots on the ground, not up on the wall where some of the other pots are. It seems to just happen at night. Could it be hedgehogs trying to find worms. We might start leaving cat food out for hedgehogs again.

Today’s painting

Posted on May 20, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, brickwork, Curves, Landscape, Night, Paint, Painting, Sky, Wip3 Comments

I like painting bottle ovens on long thin canvases and I tend to use the shape of the side to make almost a yin yang curve. I might add some stars to the swirling sky. I’ve used mainly reds browns and oranges for the brickwork on the kiln. I need to go over the dark mortar and add some shading to the kiln to give it more shape. Acrylic on canvas.

Strangers

Posted on May 8, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cemetery, Darkness, Funny, Night, Pizza, Short story, Spooky, strangers, Very short storyLeave a comment

They met by the hellibores, just inside the cemetery gates. They were strangers, meeting because of a tweet one had sent and the other had read. They might have lived in the same town, the same street, but neither knew.

It was almost midnight when they met and misty, they nodded at one another, recognising a fellow conspirator.

They stood and talked, for minutes, exchanged notes, compared ideas. They were both in agreement. There was no doubts, they confirmed the transaction.

Yes that’s a meat feast pizza, two doughnuts and a bottle of cola.

The man got on his moped and drove off into the darkness.

He Lodge keeper took his order inside. Pizzas here, he said to his wife..

Lamp

Posted on May 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black cartridge paper, Dark, Lamp, Light, metallic water colours, Night, Watercolour sketch, WatercoloursLeave a comment

Metallic watercolours on black cartridge paper. I painted this back in February. I’m going over my college work and trying to select the ten best images, or the most experimental ones. I’ve got far to many to choose from but I like this, it’s got its problems, a bit rough round the edges, but I was just looking at someone else’s post and the way she used light and shade on figures, and it reminded me of this.

Lemons

Posted on March 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bowl, Coloured pencils, Cracked, crazed, Fun, Insomnia, Kitchen, Lemons, Night, Observational drawing, Old, shrunken, Sketch, YellowLeave a comment

Old lemons in a cracked and crazed bowl, observational drawing, it’s 1.35am on a Thursday morning, what else would I be doing? Next I’m going to watch the joy of painting with Bob Ross…. What a strange life I’m living!

Come in cat!

Posted on March 10, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gale, Hail, Night, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Rhyme, Storm, Tuxedo cat, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Come on cat

Come on in

It’s blowing a gale

And raining hail

A storm is coming

And you’re outside

I’ve called your name

But instead you hide!

Come on in cat

Don’t be shy

There’s food here for you

Through the storm, fly

Run in now

Listen to my call

Don’t stay out

Through the heavy rain fall!

Come in

Be comfy

Stay a while

Be warm and happy

Prodigal feline in style.

Outdoor cat

Posted on February 25, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Black and white photo, Cat, Inside, Night, Outdoor cat, Poem, Poetry, Sleeping, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Outdoor cat update

He sleeps on the bed

I get up to let him out

I get up to let him in

I have to move my legs

To give him room

I get up to feed him

I love him

How did that happen?!

Butterfly

Posted on January 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Butterfly, crevice, Imagined, Life, Moth, Night, Scales, snowflakes, Thinking, WingsLeave a comment

Through the dark night a butterfly flits, grey and green, not a moth. Looking for night-time flowers, like night scented stock.

The ghostly wings drop tiny scales, dusting the flowers with small droplets of white and grey.

Wings like snowflakes, flying through the cold dark, settling in a crevice at dawn. Sleeping till sunset arrives again….

I do love the sky

Posted on January 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Colours, Daylight, meteor showers, Mist, Night, Planets, Sky, Stars, View4 Comments

I’m a member of the cloud appreciation society and I love the sky. When it is misty and the sky turns salmon pink, when there are dark storm clouds in the background and bright sunlight shines on the landscape in front of them. We see amazing lightening storms, cumulo nimbus, stratus, cirrus, mammatus, so many sorts of clouds.

I love looking up at the sky, looking at the stars and meteor showers or seeing a satellite tracking overhead. I’ve seen Jupiter and Saturn and Mars and Venus in the telescope.

The sky can keep you occupied for hours x

Wet carolling

Posted on December 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Clay Chorus, Fun, Music, Mystery singers, Night, Village Green, Wet weatherLeave a comment

We went out and sang upon our local church green tonight. All of us in masks. We each had a space marked with a CD on the ground. We sang four songs, Good King Wensceslas, Ye Shepherds arise, While Shepherds watched their flocks by night (Cranbrook version) and the St Day Carol (now the Holly bears the Berry…).

There were about seventeen of us getting very wet, but it was great to sing in harmony with people. We didn’t have an audience. But it was great fun.

Look up Penkhull Mystery singers on YouTube if you want to see us in full voice in previous years.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Night