Random photos,

Posted on October 2, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bradford, food festival, Gallery, Memories, Photos, Random, Saltaire, WhatsApp, YorkshireLeave a comment

My friend often sends me photos on WhatsApp. I don’t know what is going to pop up in my messages until they appear. This time he sent me a series of pictures from Saltaire Food festival. Saltaire is near Bradford in Yorkshire. It’s got small, stone built terraced houses, mostly a living room and small kitchen and two bedrooms and a bathroom. I think they filmed the new version of “The Railway Children ” movie there.

At the end of summer it puts on a great market full of food stalls from all over the world. We went a few years ago and discovered Churos from Spain. Like a mixture of sponge fingers and doughnuts crossed with each other. We tried curries and paella. There was a giant lobster balloon. It was very busy when we went. If you are in the area it’s worth a visit.

Deleted photos

Posted on May 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Deleting, Life, Memory, Photos, Thinking, thousands, Time, WordPress, WordPress media libraryLeave a comment

I’ve got too many photos in my phone. It’s crept up to over 17000 and it’s hard to delete them. The personal ones are really hard to let go. I’m attached to so many of them. I’m not sure if I can wave them goodbye. They do hold me in the past. Tie me together like wrapping paper and string.

The WordPress account only allows a maximum amount of memory and I keep hitting 100 %, so every so often I delete pictures. If I can I remove the free photos from the free photo library, or blurry, not very good ones from my own pictures. I know it’s not what I want to do, but I can’t afford to take on a bigger package. Anyway that means some posts are now lacking images. But I try to delete as few as I can. X

Pictures

Posted on May 19, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Collection, Eclectic, Fine Art, Mantlepiece, Ornaments, Painting, Photos, PrintsLeave a comment

My walls are plastered with pictures. I don’t decorate because they are in the way. Some are my pieces but there are other artists work too. They include prints, photos, paintings and scraper board art. Then there are ornaments on the mantlepiece. I have what can only be called eclectic tastes. This was going to be a photo of one of my cats, but he moved!

Full memory again

Posted on January 21, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blog, deleted, files, Media, Memories, Photos, Posts, Time, WordPress5 Comments

My phone is full of photos and my WordPress account is too. I want to add new images but my blog tells me my media file is full. What can I do? I have to delete previous photos from my previous posts.

So if you read one of my blogs and it doesn’t have a photo to illustrate it, that’s the reason why. I could delete the actual blogs but I don’t know how to do it?

The whole country except me!

Posted on October 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, Auroras?, disappointment, Exciting, Green, Late night, Photos, Pink, Red, Time, ViewLeave a comment

Last night sparkling red /pink /green auroras shone over the UK and I missed them! They apparently were around at about 10.15pm, I normally look out after midnight. Suddenly my Facebook feed was inundated with photos. Oh I was miffed. I tried to take some pictures but not much was visible, the aurora had clearly wandered off somewhere else. Then as I was going to bed at about 1.30am I just caught a glimmer of a glow in the sky. Rather than going outside in the freezing air I looked out the kitchen window and managed to get some shaky shots. Well there may be another chance tonight xxx

More auroras due?

Posted on October 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aurora, Camera, cloudy, fenight sky, Life, looking forward, Northern lights, Photos, weekendLeave a comment

Two big solar flares have recently flung energetic plasma out into space from the sun over the last couple of days. The radiation released arrived at earth quickly and blacked out some of our short wave radio signals, but matter can take days to arrive. So this weekend there may be another aurora show then. I’m getting my camera ready! I just hope it’s not cloudy..

My memory (phone)

Posted on September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cleaning phone, clearing up, deletions, file sizes, Life, Media, Memories, Photos, thousands of photos, WordPressLeave a comment

Why does my phone switch itself off when I try and take a photo? I think I might have too many photos in my phone memory and I don’t optimise them enough. When I do try and do that the picture sizes are reduced but the originals stay on the phone. So I have to go through them all to remove duplicates. This also means that all the photos are stacked under one date (today’s), but I have to do it. I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do it now. It also means that the photo sizes here will be reduced.

My dilemma is that a lot of pictures here are large and they are taking up a lot of space, so I sometimes have to take off photos from my blogs to give me a bit more room to add new pictures here. So if you find a blog of mine here without a picture? Well that’s the outcome of not being able to afford a better package on WordPress. X

Too many mugs

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cups, Life, Mugs, Patterns, Photos, Potteries, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, turn over clubLeave a comment

A memory of my cups and mugs a few years ago. Look at the bottom of them and you can often find out where they were manufactured. The image on the bottom is called the back stamp. There’s a lot of people in Stoke on Trent (also known as the Potteries), that check this out. They are called the turn over club? Sometimes you sneak a peak when your mug is full! A dangerous manoeuvre!

Seeing more JWST pictures

Posted on July 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged BBC, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1993, Images, James Webb space telescope, Photos, spectroscopy, Television, The sky at nightLeave a comment

What are you most excited about for the future?

I love images of space, they excite my artistic imagination. I’ve just been watching The Sky at Night, a BBC TV programme about space and astronomy. They had a special programme about the James Webb space telescope as it is the second anniversary of it sending back the first images it took.

JWST has superceeded the Hubble telescope as the foremost in imaging distant stars, nebulae and galaxies. It can see back in time almost to the big bang. And that was 13 billion years ago. It has been able to image data that indicates exo planets, and on a few occasions has actually been able to work out the chemical constituents of their atmospheres through spectroscopy. It has also given us different ways to image our closest neighbours, the planets of the solar system, for example using infra-red filters.

I am really looking forward to seeing new images from JWST, and maybe even trying to paint some of them. X

Splodgy skies

Posted on May 12, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aurora, aurora borealis, Blue, Green, long exposure, Moon, Photos, Pink, SplodgeLeave a comment

More boring splodgy night skies. The white line is the moon, just shows how bad my camera shake is! 60 second exposures, went from greenish to slight pink to blue. So maybe there will be better views outside the city?

I’m afraid I’m getting a bit obsessed with the Aurora Borealis. But since we are still in a stream of particles from the sun I might as well try and take pictures when I can. The next solar maximum is in 22 years and I might not be around to see that. Sorry these pictures don’t show amazing structures but I’m pleased just to get the colours here in the middle of a city, x

Mallaband-Brown

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