Missing my cat (back now and OK)

Posted on August 13, 2025August 13, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged asleep? Hot, Black and white cat, boy and girl cats, Cat, Missing, Playing, Tuxedo cat4 Comments

He needs his meds

He has a heart problem and is on medication twice a day. He’s probably just asleep somewhere in the shade but it is 29°C here and I’m worried. I will go out in the garden and call him, but I need to be careful as I’m unsteady on my feet. Why does this have to happen now. He’s due back at the vets tomorrow for a checkup. My other boy cat has probably moved out. He only comes home every few days and turns his nose up at his food. My female cat is also out… Maybe they are off playing together!

Playing Mahjong

Posted on April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged App, Challenge, Competition, digital game, Fun, Life, mahjong, matching, Playing, Speed, Tiles5 Comments

I’m well and truly addicted to this game. First it was Spider Solitaire, then Wordle, now this. I seem to be able to do it quite well and quickly, sometimes matching 3 pairs of tiles in 1.51 seconds. I’ve won a few games because I keep going for too long, but the competitivness inside me makes me want to win. Although I feel guilty leaving other players behind. I guess I’m slightly obsessed by this at the moment! And because I can play by just using a finger it’s not physically difficult to do. My shake is mainly in the left hand and arm so I rest my phone on the chair arm to play.

Ping pong

Posted on April 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged ball, Game, Illness, Life, Parkinsons, Ping-pong, Playing, Sick, table tennis, TiredLeave a comment

I took this photo after playing table tennis today. I’d popped this ping pong ball into my pocket and took it home by mistake. I haven’t been to the group for a few months after I was ill. I’m not sure if I’m fully recovered but decided to give it a go. I managed to play a bit but had to take breaks. Since I got home I’ve been really tired and I think I’m coming down with something. Ugh.

Patterns

Posted on March 21, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, carpet, Design, Fun, incollage, knees, Photodirector, Playing, SketchingLeave a comment

These are my knees and a very patterned carpet. It’s been put through various style and texture choices in photodirector and also incollage. I like adding and changing textures in these apps, it makes things more interesting.

Not brilliant.. Doodle

Posted on January 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Ballerina, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Fairy, Playing, proportions, Sketching, solarizeLeave a comment

A doodle from a few years ago. I just found it on my phone, I was playing with colour and texture, using an app to solarize areas. But clearly I wasn’t concentrating on proportions! This fairy Ballerina has very large legs and one large arm, and the other arm and the head are tiny. The body is too small too. I think its a case of looking at one part too closely instead of viewing the picture as a whole. Anyway I thought I’d share it as a bad example of doodled digital art.

Digital experiment

Posted on January 5, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Collage, Colourful, Digital, Drawing, incollage, New, Photodirector, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, TimeLeave a comment

Draw, edit, play, learn.

Check, change, design, duplicate,

Adjust, layer, fisheye, erase,

Layer, adjust enjoy, publish.

How to be confused

Posted on December 8, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cuttlefish, gobbledegook, Humour, not AI, paragraph, Playing, Poet, possible, response, sentence, Thinking, Words1 Comment

A poet I know has published a long paragraph purporting to be by artificial intelligence. I think he wrote it himself? It is like one of those sentences that you write by using the central choice on your keypad to generate a string of words, but much more complicated. For example :

I think I was a child and I used to be a sunset……

Would be a generated sentence.

I’m not using any AI to write but I decided to say something using the word “cuttlefish” just because I thought of it.

So…… here goes.

“Very old cuttlefish walk across pink dessert avenues. They mean nothing to the public air. Hand wash slowly, using cranium crystals. Bleep out sanding shores. Official decision is required before trash can be planted in allergies.”

I guess you can write anything, but will it be understandable, and if infinite monkeys are not able to write Shakespeare, will AI make it so?

Halloween face?

Posted on October 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Complementary colours, Face, Fine Art, Green, Painting, Playing, Red, SketchLeave a comment

Weird little green face, red hair or scarf. I’m just playing with complementary colours on a little canvas. I don’t know if I will elaborate on it. Maybe I should add extra details? What do you think?

Sunset

Posted on October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged allple tree, Clouds, Fine Art, Glow, Image, Ivy, Photo, Playing, Red, Sky, Sunset, symmetrical1 Comment

Sun setting, clouds arrive, leaves are still green.

Symmetrical pattern of view out my back door.

Textured cat

Posted on August 3, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Adjustments, App, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, TextureLeave a comment

I do like adding texture to photos, in this case I used an app called photodirector. There are lots of options in it, but I tend to use the same tools each time. It has the effect of just ruffling the surface rather than adding some mad AI effects which you have to pay a premium for anyway. This was my lost cat, but he came back!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Playing