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.

Spectrum

Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Burning, Chemicals, Colours, Nova, Random, Spectrum, Stars, Sun, Super nova, ThinkingLeave a comment

White light

Split into colours

Created by sunlight

Rainbows glow

Chemicals create different colours, sodium used in street lights glows yellow. Chemicals are used in fireworks, like strontium (red?) or copper green, creating different colours, blues, purples, oranges.

The reason sunlight is made up of a spectrum is because the sun is made not only of hydrogen and helium but all the chemicals in the periodic table up to iron (any chemicals beyond that can only be created in Super Novae explosions). All the chemicals in the sun glow in different colours, which is why they show up when the white light from the sun passed through a prism. If you split the spectrum further you can find dark lines, these are markers of which chemicals are present. The older the star the more chemicals. As a star gets older it starts to burn up its hydrogen and helium. New chemicals are created by atoms fusing together. That’s where new chemicals are made. When you think about it, if it wasn’t for stars burning or exploding we couldn’t exist.

Old boat

Posted on October 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carpenter, Grandfather, Life, Lytch gate, Memories, Methodist Chapel, Old boat, Random, Ship2 Comments

My grandad was a carpenter and made this many years ago. I never met him as he had died before I was born. But he carved the lytch gate at the parish church where I came from, and the altar rail in the Central Hall (Methodist Chapel). This is carved out of a peice of oak with bits of thick card nailed around the sides and tiny cannon along the sides. Maybe one day I will get it restored. I think I got my artistic ability from him.

Succulents

Posted on October 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Good for you, Help, House plant, Indoor gardening, Indoor plant, Life, Mood, Plant, Random2 Comments

Houseplants are good for you according to recent research. Apparently just a glimmer of green in an otherwise plain and boring magnolia painted house can improve your mood. If you are locked down in a house or room, having that bit of green can help.

This is a badly watered succulent plant we have at the top of our stairs. I look out over our garden and feel infinitely lucky to have that patch of green.

Accident?

Posted on October 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ambulance chaser, Bad jokes?, Funny, Humour, Jokes?, Odd ideas, Phone call, Random, Unsolicited, Very short story, WritingLeave a comment

A phone call.

‘Hello, I’m ringing because I believe you were recently involved in a traffic accident that was not your fault?’

Me ‘oh yes, twenty years or so ago..’

Caller ‘er’

Me ‘oh yes, that time the icecream van hit my car.I gave him a freezing look!’ or when the trapeze artist hit us, I said ‘I could swing for you!’ ‘Or maybe the time I got hit in the rear by a tractor? He ploughed right into us,’

Actually all the caller said was ‘Goodbye’ so sadly I didn’t get a chance to try out my bad sense of humour on her!

Tiles

Posted on October 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Ceramics, Creativity, Potteries, Potteries Museum and art gallery, Random, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Thinking, TilesLeave a comment

One thing about living in Stoke is that you get to see beautiful pottery. For instance these tiles may be simple for or wall decorations, but they signify the creativity of the City.

You visit the Potteries Museum and art gallery, in the city centre (Hanley), you will see amazing beauty and talent in the history of the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

A whole history and creativity that has gradually dwindled as austerity has crippled the country. Manufacturing has reduced, has been driven offshore by costs, and although some had started to return, the current situation has made things worse again. Life continues…..

I made a gif!

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art by CMB, Design, Ezgif, Gif, I managed it!, My art, Random, Sketches, Wow4 Comments

Never done this before, didn’t know I could upload to WordPress. Will probably have to delete loads of files to accommodate this!

Raining

Posted on September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Digitally manipulated, Editing photos, Life, Photo, Photodirector, Picture, Poem, Poetry, Random, View, WetLeave a comment

Rained all day,

today,

poured down,

persisted it down,

grey clouds,

lower than the tree tops,

streaks of water on the windows,

birds needing shelter,

sparrows soaked,

don’t go out,

keep warm and dry.

Limerick about hair

Posted on September 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Limerick Monday, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Random, WritingLeave a comment

I write silly limericks each week on a friend’, Esther Chilton’s, blog. I don’t usually share them here but I thought I would with the one I wrote on her blog last week. I hadn’t been feeling well and I forgot I had written this. I can’t remember the word that we had to base the limerick on, I think it was State, you have a one word prompt. It does not have to be the word you rhyme with, it can sit anywhere within the limerick:

Just look at the state of my hair!

This lockdowns been really unfair

My mane has extended

Far more than intended

From the top to the foot of the stairs!

I hope it made you chuckle. Limericks have a two, two, one pattern, the first two and last line should rhyme and lines three and four are often shorter and have a different pattern to their rhymes.

Hubby making apple bread?

Posted on September 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple bread, Baking, Cooking, Flour, Food, Hubby, Loaf, Oats, Random, Rye flourLeave a comment

An explosion in the kitchen? No hubby making apple bread. There was flour over the draining board, the crockery drainer, in the sink, on the floor. He got me to scrape the dough off his hands it was so sticky. He had added oats and rye flour to a bag of breadmaking flour which had added yeast. It wasn’t rising very well but he added cooking apples to the loaves.

Now they are in the oven, cooking, I wonder how they will turn out? In half an hour I will know.

Mallaband-Brown

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