Hedgehogged!

Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Drawing, Fun, Hedgehog, Hidden, Hubby, Nesting, Random, Shed, Shock, SurpriseLeave a comment

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My hubby just disturbed our hedgehogs nesting place in our shed. He put his hand on one of them and it spiked him! He didn’t know they were in there. He was trying to tidy the shed up. He also found that they had used a corner of the shed as a latrine. I’m not happy because he took our hoover out to clean up the shed! The hedgehogs were under bags of straw that we used to insulate the cat bed for the abandoned cat we look after.

They didn’t run out, just hunkered down, so he put the straw back in place. Hopefully they are here to stay!

Old sayings

Posted on July 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Dad, Fun, Humour, Memories, Missing him, Motorbike, Old sayings, Old wives tales, Random, Sayings, Tales, WordsLeave a comment

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There was a question today on Facebook about remembering old sayings that people used to tell you.

It made me remember things my father said to me. When I asked my dad where he was going he would say ‘there and back to see how far it is’ these words had a magically irritating affect on me! Also when he was annoyed he would tell us to ‘go and take a long walk off a short pier!’ Someone also talked about going the see a man about a dog.

The first time as a child you hear these, you think they are true. I used to try and work out what it meant. I didn’t know it was a saying. I imagined people falling to their deaths off the pier. And would dad be bringing a dog home? The worst was always the one about going there and back to see how far it was. It irritated the hell out of me. Eventually I was old enough and he would take usv for rides on the back of his motorbike. Generally I used to go for a ride out into the countryside just for some fresh air and to get away from the city.

Comet Neowise

Posted on July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, Comet, Comet Neowise, Dust tail, Ion tail, Life, Meteor shower, Out gassing, Persid meteor shower, Random, Spaceweather.com, SunLeave a comment

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I have not seen it. It keeps being to cloudy. But I just read this at Spaceweather.com so I tried to draw it.

COMET NEOWISE APPROACHES EARTH: Tomorrow night might be your best chance to see Comet NEOWISE for the next 6,800 years. On July 23rd, the comet makes its closest approach to Earth. The fading comet is still visible to the naked eye from dark-sky sites and an easy target for photographers everywhere. Get the full story at Spaceweather.com .

There is then the Persid meteor shower in August. Around the 15th? That might be a good show. Meteor showers are caused by the dust thrown off from comets as they get close to the sun. It’s called out gassing when cometary ice is heated by sunshine and boils off into space taking dust with it. A comets tail is made up of two different parts, the dust tail and an ion tail which is made up of ionised gas. The comets tail always points away from the sun because it is blown by the solar wind.

Colours

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Carrier bags, Cleaning cloth, Colours, Design, Layers, Layout ap, Pattern, Photos, Playing, Rainbow colours, Random, Tee shirt, ThrowLeave a comment

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Remind me not to play with colours! I have stacks of samples of colours on my phone. Sometimes, like this, I put them together in a simple pattern. Different layers and shapes, folds and twists. I chose rainbow colours, but I think the red is actually a deep orange.

Interesting how colour perception differs from person to person.

I like the way there is a definite hard line seperating each line of hot colours from the blues, greens and purples. Interesting what you can do with photos of carrier bags, tee shirt material, yellow paper, a cleaning cloth and a patterned throw.

It’s a tight fit!

Posted on July 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Blogging, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Overgrown, Plants, pots, Random, Sunshine, TreesLeave a comment

The yard is now so full of flowers you have to walk sideways down it to see all the plants and water them. There is a great variation in leaf size. I noticed my hubby has snuck in a couple of oOak trees and an Ash tree. I keep telling him we don’t need anymore. I have a friend with a large field. She has offered to take our walnut saplings and I think she will take these as well.

As the season continues more mad things appear! Hubby has put irises in hanging baskets and sunflowers to bring more colour into the yard. Morning glory seedlings will go out this week if the weather picks up a bit. Some of them have started to throw out tendrils that are clinging to the ferns in the bathroom.

Trifle dipping?

Posted on July 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blancmange, Blogging, Blueberries, Cherries, Cream, Food, Fridge, Jelly, Knicking, Random, Setting problems, Sweet, Tasty, TrifleLeave a comment

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Oh dear! My blancmange was too warm when I put it on top of the jelly. And I got extra thick cream which I over whipped. The whole thing is a delicious mess!

Now, trifle dipping, what is that? The act of knicking an extra spoonful of trifle after you’ve had your fair share! I’ve been known to slice a thin sliver off our Christmas trifle late at night. It is my favourite dessert.

Masks

Posted on July 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Covid 19, Illness, Life, Random, Relatives, Take care, Thinking, Vaccine, Virus, Wash hands, Wear a mask2 Comments

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From Monday people will have to wear masks in shops here in England. That doesn’t bother me, me and my hubby have both been wearing face coverings of one thing or another since lockdown began.

What does bother me is the outcry against them. A Tory MP tore up his membership card because of it.

Now our Prime Minister is saying it could all be OK by Christmas!

This is after over 45000 deaths that have been attributed to Covid 19 since it arrived here.

I’ve had a couple of family members that have had it. One is still affected a couple of months later. They told me it’s nothing like a touch of flu. That it’s really bad, and they didn’t get it badly.

Now I’ve got one friend telling me it’s all fake, not real, all a conspiracy! Another said she wouldn’t have a vaccination or allow her daughter to have it. Why? Why would you put your granny, or uncle, or child at risk because you don’t believe in a virus? Why would you not wear a mask to protect others?

And why would you not take a vaccine if it was safe? When Edward Jenner came up with a vaccine for Smallpox maybe the people in his day were against it. But why now? How many people are alive today because they were vaccinated. In this age of Fake news we need to use our brains. Not believe the first thing that someone says on the Internet. We need to fact check maybe.

But most of all we need to be safe and wear a mask and wash our hands.

Sleep

Posted on July 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Blogging, Counting sheep, Dreaming, Poem, Poetry, Random, Rest, Sleep, Tired4 Comments

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I must sleep

I must dream

Stay calm

Lay softly

Feel relaxed

Breathing deeply

Taking time

To rest quietly.

I must sleep

I need rest

I must find my dreamworld.

Will I rest

Or will it be another sleepless night?

I lie counting sheep.

Dry, sore hands

Posted on July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Dermatitis?, Dry skin, Hand, Hurt, Moisturiser, Ouch, Random, Sore, Split skin, Washing up3 Comments

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Washing my hands regularly, using sanitiser, washing up liquid. I try and use moisturiser but it doesn’t help. I keep going with it though. I really want my hand to heal. But every time I wash up, even with gloves, makes it bad again. It started on my little finger and spread. I’m fed up with it. Been going on for months.

Marigold

Posted on July 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Grassland, Hills, Marigold, Race, Racetrack, Random, Running, Summer memories, Sun and sky, YouthLeave a comment

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I think that’s what this is? It’s a photo I took a our six years ago. It makes me think of grassy banks and hot blue skies, fluttering butterflies and old black poplar trees in a line. Of little dusty paths with small oval pebbles that scatter as you walk. Of running through the fields around our school doing cross country running. Memories of the old rusty fences that enclosed the laying fields. The running track, the hockey fields, the tennis courts, the netball courts. When I think of my old comprehensive school I realise how lucky I was. Memories I haven’t delved into for forty years. I wouldn’t go back but it’s good to remember.

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