The deep

Posted on February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bathesphere, Creative writing, Fantasy, Fish, Horror, Metallic, Ocean, Sci fi, Sea, Ship, Short storyLeave a comment

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The small bathesphere was lowered over the side of the science vessel ‘Valour’.

Steph sat at the controls, watching the pressure guages and reporting every 100 meters they dropped into the abyss.

At 1 kilometer there was a brief pause to check all the systems again. Carbon Dioxide was at acceptable levels, the filters were working. Air was being pumped down at the right rate from the ship. Up top in the ship the mission room were happy to give her the go ahead to continue.

A few minutes later, and the pressure had increased massively on the hull. But it was built to withstand them. The bulbous glass windows were curved to take the external forces without buckling.

A shadow passed one of the windows, something gold and glittering… It came back, huge, fish shaped. A gaping mouth opening. The images on the bathesphere’s cameras were flickering with the reflections from the metallic looking fins and scales.

Steph shouted out in surprise ‘what the hell is it?’. But the ship didn’t hear her.

The rescue wasn’t successful. As they wound in the cable the scientists on the ship could tell that the weight on it was no longer there. Finally the severed ends of it were hauled over the stern. ‘lost at sea’ was the report that was published…..

Red arrows.

Posted on February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aerobatics, Flight, North Wales, Ocean, Red arrows, Rhyl, Rhyl air show, Sea, Twisting and turningLeave a comment

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Rhyl Air show, the red arrows. A lovely sky in August. Exciting to watch some expert pilots fly amazing planes in death defying aerobatics.

Standing on the beach, watching them swoop overhead, white horses on the sea. Puffing white clouds scudding overhead. Flat landscape, until you reach the inland hills.

Of course these are memories, not necessarily exact, but I remember, I remember……

Trees

Posted on November 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Earth, Evolution, Extinct, Imagined, Life, Marshes, Ocean, Planet, Sci fi, Sea, Space, Trees, Water, WorldLeave a comment

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The trees spread across the world, as man finally withered and died. Killed off in a last great mass extinction caused by humankind’s continuous destruction of the animal population and most of the plant world. Pestilence, fire, flooding and starvation had done their jobs.

All that was left were trees, rivers, marshes, seas and oceans.

The trees kept pumping out oxygen, the world was now habitable for any incomers, but there were none. Aliens may have admired our world, but they exist in civilisations too far away. None of them had things like warp drive. A nice idea, but not really feasible.

Nothing grew, except a soup of bacteria. One day that might evolve into the next great family of animals, insects, worms, critters. If man returned millions of years later he would not recognise the planet or its contents. Maybe the trees would remember….

Rising tide…

Posted on November 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boggle hole, Clouds, Flood, Humor, Life, Memory, Ocean, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Robin hoods Bay, Science, Sea, Sea level rise, Sketch, Water, Yorkshire2 Comments

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The sea is rising

The rain comes in mountains now.

Falling so fast its like a bomb.

Wet feet

Now wet knees,

Up to my thighs…

We walked once from Robin Hoods Bay

To Boggle Hole.

On the North East Coast

Of Yorkshire.

The sea came in

Along the rocks.

It was faster than us.

He was up to his chest,

I was up to my neck

When we waded out

Of the North Sea.

That was twenty years ago.

Now you only have to look at a cloud

And you are covered, soaked, flooded.

Where will it end?

Up a creek without a paddle?

View of Plymouth sound.

Posted on August 13, 2019 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Bay, Bovisand, Cornwall, Devon, Fine Art, Holiday, Landscape, Life, Ocean, Plymouth, Sand, Sea, Water4 Comments

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This was a painting I did a few years ago. I think it’s from Bovisand Bay looking out over Plymouth sound across to Cornwall. I wish I could go back. I live the place. It’s just the cost and the length of the drive. I want to just have one whole week somewhere nice. We’ll we will see. Perhaps I will sell some paintings, enough to go there. X

I want to be by a beach

Posted on July 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beach, Bovisand, Cornwall, Devon, England, Holiday, Ocean, Plympton, Sea, UK2 Comments

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An old watercolour of Bovisand Bay. Choppy waters, Devon coast near Plymouth. Cornwall in the distance. Thus is where I want to be. Staring out at sunshine or showers, paddling in the water or splashing about further out. Looking at the plants and animals in the countryside around the bay.

The rocks on the left hand side are where local youths “tombstone” or jump off the top into the bay when the tide is in. Round the headland is another part of the bay. A woman died trying to swim round to it several years ago. There are shops and bungalows High up on the cliffs in the other part of the bay, but the last time we went the carpark above it was partly fenced off due to the cliff collapsing. With more storms and bad weather it is possible that costal erosion will increase and many costal properties and land will be lost to the seas.

Thirst

Posted on April 12, 2019April 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clean water, Drink, Drought, Life, Ocean, Poem, Poetry, Sea, thirst, Water7 Comments

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I need a drink

Cola

Cocoa

Coffee

Gin

Beer

Cider

Milk

Whiskey

Tea

Orange Juice

Water

Yes

Cold

Yes

With ice

Yes

Sparkling

Yes

Tap water

YES.

why spend money on water if you can get it out of the tap? We are very lucky in my country to be able to have freshly piped water. In a lot of the World this does not happen.

But we still buy water in bottles! And when we have bought our bottles water the plastic bottle it usually comes in gets thrown away and Sent to landfill or ends up floating in the ocean and destroying the sea life. Meanwhile many people in the world have to drink filthy water and maybe carry it for miles before they can drink or use it. Maybe we should care more about people who are really thirsty. My choice of drinks is almost unlimited. The world must try and be fairer.

Save the world, drink tap water if you can!

Mallaband-Brown

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