Waiting..

Posted on January 15, 2026 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Afternoon, Appointment, Exercise, Late, Life, Mobile, Old, Phone, Phone call, sedentary, WaitingLeave a comment

We will call you at 3pm.

So I stood in the kitchen, next to the phone at 3pm, it was on charge and I didn’t want to miss the call. It’s cold in the kitchen, but that’s where my charger is..

Half past 3, still no call. I had been trying to do a few stretches as I have been too sedentary since I had to scrap my car. It aches when I move and that’s clearly not good for me. A few upper body stretches and push aways from the kitchen counter.

3.45pm, did I get the time wrong? I started playing a game on my phone, I like Mahjong. Maybe they would call at 4pm?

Now it’s 4.06pm.im not impressed, if you promise to call you should make it. Maybe the caller is ill. In that case send a text to alert the recipient!

At least I got a bit of exercise.

Waiting for a call

Posted on December 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Communication, mobile waiting for a call, Musing, Phone, Thinking, Time, Waiting9 Comments

Keep your phone charged, waiting for a call. Going out, I might need a taxi. Waiting for a call… Is she going tonight or tomorrow? Waiting for a call.. You passed the test, welcome on board.

We’ll meet at 6pm… But that’s gone, maybe there’s a problem. Waiting for a call. The same four words repeated.

Will they ever call me? Is there a reason they haven’t? Information required. I hope they call soon….

Pondering questions passes the time. Phones are too important these days. What else could we do? Relax, read a book. Switch the phone off!

Achy shoulders

Posted on December 7, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aching, explanations, hold, Life, Pain, Phone, plain verse, Poem, Poetry, Thoughts, TiredLeave a comment

I think I’m holding this phone too much.

Strong grip tightens muscles,

Hand clutches

Top and side of my shoulder aches.

Limited movement

Tense and tight

Shoulders raised to my ears

It’s agony when I lie down to sleep

Or reach up to get something

Out of the cupboard.

Grr

Enough

Rest and recuperate.

My cats are not photogenic!

Posted on August 5, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Black cat, Cat, cats perspective, ignored, Phone, Photo, photogenicLeave a comment

Mum why are you waving that slab of plastic in my face? I can’t see you because it’s in the way? Your eyes are always on it. Hunched over it. At least when you used a keyboard I could walk over that and sit on it and make lo[[[tttttttttttttttttttssssss of letters with it!

Mum do stop with your hands on the front of it! I want you to look at me, stroke my nose, rub my head, tickle my ears.

Oh you are not interested? Then I’ll look the other way…

Doom scrolling

Posted on May 30, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged doom scrolling, Internet, Life, Phone, Poem, Poetry, reposting, Sadness, Thinking, viewingLeave a comment

I keep picking my phone up

Looking at the screen

A blip of endorphins?

Another look…

Gradually it builds

Digital sketching in Artrage

Posted on May 11, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Hands, Life, Phone, Sketching, Stylus, ten minute drawingLeave a comment

I don’t do many of these anymore. I find it harder to hold my phone when I’m sketching and drawing. My fingers cramp up round the phone and sometimes round a stylus if I’m drawing with one. Anyway got to keep my hand in as the saying goes. Ten minute digital drawing in my Artrage app.

Needled!

Posted on April 5, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged attachment, Illness, Memories, microscope, needle, Phone, Tired, upset stomach1 Comment

I got a little microscope that used to attach to my old phone which was thinner than this one. A few photos like this have popped up on my Facebook memories today. There are a few interesting ones of woven cloth. I might share. Anyway, having a quiet day after a very upset stomach last night and I’m shattered because I slept downstairs on my armchair. I’d got things planned for today but I’ve given them a raincheck.

I keep sleeping

Posted on December 27, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Exhausted?, Friends, Helping, Installation, Phone, plumber, Sleeping, Tired, TV, TV fire stickLeave a comment

What a day! After a busy morning trying to sort a few things out, I had some lunch, then found myself falling asleep in front of the TV. Later a friend rang up so I helped her work out how to fit a firestick to her TV. I looked it up on Google and got her to find the HDMI cable, we then spent an hour trying to sort out how it worked. I joked I would never be able to talk down a plane in distress! Ten minutes later another friend rang about a burst pipe, asking if I could help in some way. She doesn’t have a computer so I gave her some numbers of local plumbers. We spoke for so long that my phone went flat.

Then, I don’t know if I was mentally exhausted but I just fell asleep, then slept on and off till now. I must have missed half of the programmes on TV. I never saw the end of Oliver! the movie. I need to wake up to cook something for tea, I might just have some noodles.

Change a name

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged authentic, Internet, Letters, Numbers, Pain, password, Phone, please, Poem, Poetry, proverbial, two type2 Comments

Modern life

I need to change

My name

But no matter

How often I phone

They can’t do it!

Two type authenticity

Pain in the proverbials

Change a password

What’s wrong with 987654321?

No you have used that before

DDrF457gTi. XS92?

How do I remember that?

So I leave the name

The same

Insane.

My keys

Posted on August 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2025, Door, Keys, locked out, Memories, mum, Phone, toilet windowLeave a comment

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

I can do without my phone, but I need to get into my house, my car, my shed, my garden gate.

I’ve only ever been locked out a couple of times, the first when I was a child, in that case it was my mum that had slammed the front door shut (it had a yale lock), only to remember she had left the keys inside. I was fairly small and a bit of an athlete so I ended up climbing in through the downstairs toilet window. I managed to let us all in.

The other time I was sharing a house, I left my keys somewhere else and only realised when I was outside the front door. That ended with me sitting on the front doorstep for a couple of hours.

Now I’ve told you I’ve probably jinxed myself to do it again. Luckily I have the number of a locksmith on my phone (which I don’t always keep with me!)

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Phone