Singing on Zoom

Posted on October 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apologies, Boat Band, Choir, Fun, Music, Random, Rio Grande song, Singing, WordsLeave a comment

Just finished a zoom singing session with some friends from a choir. The choir leader Sings and we are all muted, so all you can here is her and her partner and yourself. If you unmute the timing of the music is all put. So that people’s voices come in at different times. It’s funny but not productive.

One thing we have been doing is sharing pictures of model boats and even a painting of a boat because we are being led by a group called the Boat Band, talented musicians. Look them up on YouTube?

Apologies if I should not have used the words. I will take this post down if I have to.

Lumpy grey sky

Posted on October 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clicking, Grey sky, Home, Humming, Life in the UK, Noises, Random, Sounds, Sunday morning, Water flowingLeave a comment

7.30am, the mornings are drawing in. It’s not fully light yet and we are covered with a lumpy, porridge like, grey sky. Nothing to write home about, as the Beatles sang, all those years ago (I may be misquoting, I think it’s actually nothing to get hung about?) well it’s been a while since I heard it…

Anyway, no sound of rain, or birds, a bit of traffic in the distance and the hum of the fridge motor, the whirring click of the clock, and the rushing sound in my blocked up ear all signify a relatively quiet Sunday morning. The central heating just came on, clicking and expanding metal noises for a few seconds, then the sound of water being pumped. Oh the joys of a modern house. Blanketed under grey clouds….

Easy dessert

Posted on October 17, 2020October 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged afternoon tea, Banana, Cream, Croissant, Dessert, Food, Ingredients, Random, Raspberries, Sweet, TastyLeave a comment

Ingredients :

Two croissants,

One Banana

Half a tub of extra thick double cream

Sugar or sweetner to taste.

A few raspberries for decoration.

Method :

Take the two croissants, cut them in half horizontally. Slice a banana in half lengthways. Place one half in each croissant. Sprinkle with a little sugar or sweetner. Dollop the thick cream on top of the banana, then place the top of the croissant back on top. Serve as it is or with a few raspberries on the plate. Tasty and easy.

Serves two.

Youcan substitute whipping cream or squirty cream if you want. X

My eyes

Posted on October 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Central heating, Halogen heater, Heater, Instant heat, Radiating, Random, Warmth, WattageLeave a comment

This is our new heater. On one bar! It’s being used as a lamp too….

The old oil filled radiator we had in our living room was used to supplement our central heating or used instead of it now the days are getting colder. The problem was that there was an oily residue on the base of it and on the fins. It also used 1000 Watts. I wanted to get another, less powerful oil heater, but my hubby chose this. On the positive side its only 400 Watts on full power and it seems to radiate more heat than the oil heater did.

But it’s so bright! I have to turn it away from me so my eyes aren’t burned out of their sockets (clearly not true), but it’s too bright for me.

Write a poem

Posted on October 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Funny, Humour, Incomprehensible, Phone, Poem, Poetry, Predictive text, Random, Silly, WordsLeave a comment

In predictive text starting with the word ‘phone’ :

Phone and email

I have attached

Yes I think

I am currently

What is the earth’s

We have a small forest

I am interested to join

Yes please can you send me the invoice

Words to say that I have from the company

I have a very complex problem

Yes……… Thanks

Saggars and pots

Posted on October 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Britain, Life, Lockdown, Mad, Masks, Random, Thought, Wondering1 Comment

A photo from the British Ceramics Biennial last year. Rain washed spode site glistening in the sunlight.

Missing being able to visit places and see things. Even after a couple of days it looks like they are going to increase local lockdowns and prevent more transmission of the virus.

And yet we see images of people without masks, or wearing them as some sort of decorative chin strap. While the head of one of the greatest countries in the world gets to throw possibly contaminated masks into a baying, maskless crowd.

Crazy, mad, sad.

Objects

Posted on October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bag, Cushions, Description?, Disco ball, Dragon, Lion, Objects, Owl, Photos, Pottery, Random, Short story?, Sill, Spode, StarLeave a comment

A lion was waiting on a roundabout when it saw a disco ball in a hall window… The light from the sun reflected off it and made tiny stars sparkle off every surface. The magic it set off created a bronze dragon, which unfortunately was only tiny. It was seen by a bag in the shape of an owl. Which swallowed the dragon whole. The owl then grew new feathers of purple and blue wax. It flew over a lake with oriental buildings and trees. It followed an orange man walking backwards with his legs sticking through the bottom of a boat. Two people watched on in horror. Finally all the owls toy cushion friends stood and applauded as it flew in and landed quietly and quickly in the corner.

Yes that is a lot of silly words, but I’d gathered these odd photos together and wanted to describe them. Not much of a story really!

Orange person walking backwards.

Posted on October 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Ceramics, Life, Orange, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Random, Strange, Walking backwards2 Comments

A description…

odd combination

A monkey crying

a lion in a captains cap

Wellington boots

Across the sea..

A boat with cargo

Two life belts

Sails and steam stack

Religious icon and weeping people.

Tree of life,

Amidst it all,

an orange oaf.

Long blond mullet?

Photo from a ceramics event,

Last year,

Challenging history,

Walking backwards

To disaster?

No mojo

Posted on October 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buffoons, Covid, Depressed?, Fed up, Life, Random, Thinking, Tired, Tonsillitis, Wishing, World4 Comments

My mojos gone out, I feel down, I feel demotivated. I think it’s living at this moment. I want to just wrap myself up in a ball, put my head under the duvet, hide.

Feeling myself gently rocking for comfort. Hunched shoulders, unable to start things or respond. I put on a brave face, but it’s hard work. It hasn’t helped being ill for the last few weeks. I think I’ve had tonsillitis and I’ve got an achy shoulder, and toothache and they are all impacting on me. Plus it’s getting darker in the evenings and I’ve not done much walking or going out, nerves about the increase in covid19 I guess. We are looking at more local lockdowns? In the meantime the world seems to be ruled by buffoons, orange, blond and barking mad! Is it any wonder I feel off?

More flowers

Posted on October 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Day trip, Dorothy Clive garden, Flowers, Hot colours, Photos, Random, Spectrum, StaffordshireLeave a comment

Well since all my photos are in my October file it does mean I can find ones that I took last year and I’m also putting them together in blocks so that I might be able to delete some of the individual ones.

I think these were taken out at the Dorothy Clive Garden in Staffordshire (?) , England, last year. Either it was a showery day, or partly overcast because some have shadows and some not. But they were all grouped together which is why I think they were taken around the same time. Other than that they are random and mostly on the hotter side of the spectrum. A lot of them are daisy types, but I’m in love with the poppy too.

Mallaband-Brown

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