Poppy

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic ainting, Art, Damage, Destruction, Earth, Life, Nature, Oriental poppies, Plants, Pollution, Poppy, Random, Red, Responsibility, WorldLeave a comment

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A poppy painting I did a while ago.

This recent warm sunshine is bringing all the poppies out into flower. We walked into town, and where the pathways have not been sprayed with weed killer, all sorts of plants, including oriental poppies, are springing up. Mother nature is taking over.

But… In places where people have been allowed to meet up, the beaches, and parks, the main growth is in litter. People do not take their rubbish home with them. Why are humans such a filthy, messy, species. I thought we were giving the earth breathing space. But people’s ethos seems to be having what they want, and ignoring the damage they create.

I don’t think humans deserve this wonderful world. Really.

Mask

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawing, History, Life, Mask, Random, Thinking, ThoughtLeave a comment

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What mask do you hide behind? Are you a wise owl or something more peculiar. I’ve seen photos of Italian masks, all black, with a massive beak shape. I think they wore them during the plague? Apparently people have recreated them and are wearing them during the pandemic. It’s because we are more interconnected than in the past, so people can reference historical times and be recognised as doing something that would not have been understood in the past…..

Life, the world, history, fascinating,

Branches

Posted on May 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Branches, Cold, Dawn, Heat, Night, Poem, Poetry, Random, Sunrise, Sunset, Trees, WinterLeave a comment

A mess of branches

before they were covered in green.

When air was cold and blue,

when stems bore ice.

When it was cold at night.

It was chill, and the moon shone,

through miriad twigs.

When night lasted

in the cold darkness,

from early dusk,

to late dawn.

Now the sun rises early

the heat rises to meet it,

I wake up late and fall asleep

late,

in the warm morning air.

Fairy fair

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fairy tale, Fun, Garden, Life, Poem, Poetry, Random, Wire fairy, Wire kit, Wire sculpturesLeave a comment

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The wire fairies dance together,

flying in a fair,

Twisting and switching

through the warm air.

Flitting through the flowers,

chasing errant bees,

hiding in the trumpet flowers

of convolvulus and weeds.

Little silver fairies,

made of twisted wire,

forged by clever, loving hands,

metal from the fire.

Flowers

Posted on May 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Environment, Flowers, Gardening, Geology, Life, Photos, Plants, Random, Spring, WaterLeave a comment

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A few flowers from the garden today. The flowers are starting to develop, the big summer plants are a bit swamped with ivy and scrubby bushes and so we have cut back branches and peeled ivy off trees a bit today. Only what you can do with a pair of secateurs and a small pruning saw.

We need to lay some pathways, and where a spring has erupted in the garden we are going to put a few pebbles to simulate a stream flowing down under the hedge. We live on a hill which is a very old Volcanic plug. The water percolates out further up the hill and we think because that was built on a few years ago it might have got diverted down towards our house. I don’t know….

Time for a cool glass

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cold drink, Digital drawing, Ice, Life, Random, Safe distance, Shopping, Thought, WaterLeave a comment

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Thirsty, I really fancy a cool glass of juice. But I don’t have any in. So a glass of cold water with some ice will have to suffice.

I had to do some shopping today. I was pushing a trolley and people kept scooting past me. Two meter distance? it seemed that people were not that bothered! I get in and out as quickly as I can. There is the problem of using touch screens, I walk round with gloves and a face mask, but have to take the gloves off to put my pin in! I could try ordering on line, but apparently there is a three week wait for slots!

Mandala.

Posted on May 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Drawing, Life, Mandala, Meditation, Memory, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Random, ThoughtLeave a comment

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If I could find the centre of the universe,

would it encompass me?

Would this world be flung far out,

or be held by gravity?

Silent rainbows squirt sideways,

clouds billow outwards,

from the singularity.

Held by an umbilical arm,

tight fist entwined.

Give in to sorrow or joy.

Be free.

Noise nuisance

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Disturbance, Memory, Noise, Noise nuisance, Pop music, Random, Reacting, remember, Sound, Taking action2 Comments

I just read a post on Facebook about a friend who’s neighbours THREE streets away are constantly playing loud music with a strong base beat. I suggested this and remembered a time a long time ago when I had similar problems…

“Can you reply by sitting outside his house in your car with your speakers on full blast playing Mozart?”

“When our old neighbours years ago used to play loud pop music I would wait till it went off late at night then play Mahler or Brahms through the wall at them, full blast…. Talk about passive aggressive. In the end it was so bad it kept the neighbour on the other side awake and she was eight months pregnant. I finally snapped and took my personal alarm, pulled the pin out of it and put my hand through the neighbours letterbox. (it was a terraced house). No one came to the door, so I went to the other neighbour and explained what I’d done. I was just coming out of there and my student neighbours started to come out to catch a taxi to the city centre. I stopped them and asked if they were at the local polytechnic. When they said yes, I asked if that meant they were intelligent. Because wasn’t it obvious that the noise they were making was disturbing their neighbours? They said it hadn’t mattered in the halls of residence, so I politely pointed out this was the ‘real’ world. A bit later the police arrived. I explained what I’d done and they decided to take no action!

70’s toys

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1970's, 70's toy, Blogging, Childhood, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Memories, Random, Time, ToyLeave a comment

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Clackers.. Two balls on a string you waved up and down, with a little ring in the middle. They were meant to bounce off each other top and bottom. Many a broken finger….

Made of hard plastic, some luminous green, other colours too. I remember them being quite heavy. The cord holding them together was made of nylon. The string was tied round the ring at the halfway point. You moved your arm up and down fast, the balls would be sent flying and bounce at the top and bottom of their arc, making the characteristic ‘clacking’ noise. Hence the name.

As with other toys from the 70’s I doubt they would have been approved by health and safety now!

Con trail excitement!

Posted on May 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Atmosphere, Blogging, Con trail, Condensation, Ice, Life, Morning, Photo, Plane, RandomLeave a comment

Just had the excitement of seeing a con trail overhead. Con stands for condensation, it’s when a jet airplane flies high up and the hot and humid exhaust gases from its engine condense out as ice crystals in the very low temperature and low vapour pressure air. Its like when you breathe out in the winter and your breath turns into ice if its cold enough.

For some reason there is a conspiracy theory that the vapour is made of chemicals and that governments are spreading them from the planes.

Ask yourself, why would they do that? There were experiments in the mid twentieth century to try and ‘seed’ clouds to make them rain. But it didn’t really take off!

It is strange how these weird ideas get into the world. I prefer thinking things through. If it doesn’t make sense can it be true?

Anyway I don’t think one con trail makes for the end of the lockdown here, like the old saying ‘one swallow doesn’t make a summer’. And really, I for one would like there to be a lot less flights, or more ecologically sustainable ones when things do resolve themselves.

In the meantime please stay safe.

Good morning.

Mallaband-Brown

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