Penkhull Mystery Plays

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Community, Design, Drama, July 2020, Music, Penkhull mystery play, Performance, Play, Stalls, Titchy theatreLeave a comment

The time to organise this year’s mystery play at penkhull is here. But people need to get involved. After fifteen years of hard work some of the organisers are standing down. We have various deadlines and need to decide by early February whether it’s going ahead. The committee are meeting tonight and hopefully those that were involved and are involved or might want to be involved will attend. It takes a lot of effort from over 400 people to put the day on. The centre of it is usually a Mystery Play although a couple of years ago we had a ‘fallow’ year where there was no play, but the rest of the day went ahead. I guess people are busy, but it would be good to keep it going….

Playing

Posted on January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Landscape, Mirrored, Photo, Play, Reflected2 Comments

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You don’t know what you will get when you play with photos. This was the result after playing with this photo. _20200108_143749

And also playing with the brightness and hues in it….

I like it.

Just a photo of a reflection in a window.

Purring cats

Posted on December 15, 2019December 15, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Animals, Basket, Black and white cat, Cat, Cats, Chase, Fun, Life, Pets, PlayLeave a comment

Purring puss

He loves his new basket

Curled up warm and snug!

But jealousy arrives with his sister

Who loves it too.

Squabbles ensue, much chasing,

up and down stairs,

behind the curtains…

Scooting backwards and forwards,

In and out the basket,

one after the other.

Till finally,

they both ignore it,

staying in seperate places.

Eyeing up the basket,

at an impasse….

Neither willing to trespass.

Wish I’d bought two.

Cats

Posted on December 11, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cats, Fun, Humour, Leaping, Play, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

We have two cats, one basket.

Someone thinks it’s his,

someone thinks it’s hers!

Cat fight! Shock horror!

no harm done, fun had,

chasing round, playing tag,

one great game.

No fur flying….

No scratches or harm..

Bouncing round the room.

Leaping, flying,

cats death defying!

I’m the king of the castle..

Posted on November 14, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Age, Cat, Children's games, Fun, Games, Humour, Ideas, Life, Memory, PlayLeave a comment

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My cats play and chase each other every few hours. It starts with the female cat lying down in front of the male cat, he starts to groom her and they start squabbling, she fends him off as he tries to nip her. They then start chasing each other, sneaking up and Pouncing at each other, racing round the room and up the stairs.

Lately it been a game of “I’m the king of the castle, get down you dirty rascal…” a game that children used to play where you would stand on top of a pile of dirt or maybe rocks and your friends would try and push you off and capture the high ground.

I’ve got a pile of clothes and laundry waiting to go upstairs, but the male cat has taken to sleeping on it. His sister objects and jumps up. A few times she has chased him away, only for him to come back and recapture it! I was going to take a photo of him, but he jumped down so I’ve drawn a cat on it. It does remind me of the game we used to play.

Black cat

Posted on November 7, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Digital art, Fun, Life, Moon, Play, Poem, Poetry, SkyLeave a comment

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Black cat,

staring eyes

Making spells

Flying high.

Chase the moon,

Race the sky.

Jumping down

To the street.

Chasing mice,

Nice to eat?

Having fun,

Being quick

Oh so neat.

Cat familiar,

Friend of mine.

Making magic

Oh so fine…

Colour

Posted on November 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Colours, Fun, Inspiration, Life, Play, Poem, Poetry, SpectrumLeave a comment

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I love colour as you can see.

Colour is the best option for me.

Bright colours are very good.

Not just black and white could

grab my mind…

Without colour I am blind…

I love a spectrum of every hue.

Yellow, red, gold, bronze and blue.

Purple and orange fight to be seen,

Not to mention beautiful green.

So of I will go to paint again.

My palette with new colours, lain.

Last year

Posted on October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Black and white photo, Car, Design, Drama, Memory, Monochrome, Photographs, Play, SpodeLeave a comment

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Or was it the year before? We went to see a play at Spode, another by Debbie McAndrew, probably Hot Lane. There was a car from the 1950’s as part of the set up. It was parked in the pathway between some of the buildings at the Spode Site. I took a picture of it and decided to make it look more authentic by turning it into a black and white photo.

I like monochrome pictures, they can be more atmospheric. I hope you like it.

Old cars

Posted on October 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cars, Design, Environment, Fun, Life, Play, The D Road, TheatreLeave a comment

Part of the set up for the play we went to see were the cars. Old and new. My favourites were the Austin Maxi in mustard yellow, and the bright red Audi Quattro. Both were just inside the door as you came in, together with an old caravan. It set the scene so well. Fascinating.

The D Road.

Posted on October 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged D Road, Debbie McAndrew, Fun, Meadows suite, Play, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Traffic, writerLeave a comment

The D Road is a play we went to see today about a woman affected by the D Road.

The D Road is a dual carriage way that runs through Stoke-on-Trent and joins with the M6 motorway North and south of the city making a D shape.

The play is written by Debbie McAndrew. The story unfolds as an elderly lady is frightened by a man hanging around her house. Her grandson catches him and demands to know what he is up to…. The answers change all their lives…

Very enjoyable. Put on inside the Meadows suite at Spode. It was quite cold as its an empty factory, so we were given blankets to keep warm. Very enjoyable.

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