Another late night

Posted on September 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Addicted to TV, Comforting, End in sight, Enjoyment, Favourite TV, Gratification?, Memories, Need to stop, Old series, Random, Streaming, Thinking, TV, Watching4 Comments

I must stop staying up and watching TV late at night. I’ve got into the habit of watching a TV series that is streamed every night. I used to watch it a few years ago and when it came back on I started watching. Virtually every night.

Why? Comfort. I can relax when I watch it. I get taken back in time, I like it. But it’s late at night, sometimes later than others, that has consequences, it means I get up late. I know I don’t go to work anymore, but half the day has gone.

Luckily the series ends soon. And this is the last series. Only another three weeks and I won’t be watching it anymore. But I am glued to the screen at the moment. What will I do without my little addiction. What else will tickle my fancy? I’m just glad I don’t have a subscription to a video streaming platform, or I will be lost.

Let me go back

Posted on September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2019, Back in time, Celebration, Ceremony, Cross dressing, Fun, Mock mayor, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Parade, Poem, Poetry, Random, Speeches, Woolen wigLeave a comment

Let me go back to 2019

When I played mock mayor

And was wigged in wool hair.

My hubby was wearing

A gown with great bearing

Cross dressed

In his best

In straw hat with beard

While his words were heard

Speaking prattle and tosh

To a crowd all a hush

Paraded the iron market

With oyez oyez, harked

A speech for the day

The people to play

Drink and be glutton

And eat best mutton

Till the end of the day

With nothing to pay.

Mock mayor on that day.

To the world on display…..

A heart of sky

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue sky, Creative writing, Green, hheart, Imagination, Laurel, Life, pphoto, Random, Russian vine, Sky, Thinking, Wisteria, WorldLeave a comment

I could add edges to this photo and make a more definite heart shape, but I like it as it is. Late summer fluffy clouds drift in a sky that turned cloudy and grey an hour later. Laurel, Russian vine and Wisteria frame the blue. The vine has been cut back and the flowers are turning brown. The Wisteria needs pruning and the laurel is blocking out most of the light in our sunny patch.

Most of the rest if the garden is covered over with trees. The leaves gather light from every gap. It’s amazing how they space themselves so they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

You look up and try and see dragons or puppies in the sky. Dancing horses, faces, hands, ufo’s, giraffes, teddy bears. It’s all there, up in that heart of sky.

Old touring bikes

Posted on September 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cycling, Fit, Fun, Life, Miles, Puncture, Random, Touring cycles, Train, Visiting, Youth6 Comments

Claud Butler and Viking Queen bikes. Looking a bit the worse for wear, in need of TLC. I wish I could still cycle but I’m not very fit and my hips are too stiff to get onto my bike. My hubby still uses his. But I have memories of cycling thirty or forty miles at a time, cycling in the pouring rain, trying to catch trains and missing them so cycling home in the middle of the night. Mending punctures when it was so cold that the patch wouldn’t stick till it got warm when the sun came up. Visiting friends and relatives, visiting beautiful houses and castles. Cycling up massive hills. Lots of memories.

Sore throat

Posted on September 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Achy, Autumn, Cold, Fed up, Ill, Random, Sick, Sore throat, Tired, Weather4 Comments

Oh I feel rough. My throat is really sore and I’m aching. I’ve had a very quiet day, plenty to drink and some painkillers. I’m sure it’s just an autumn cold but I’m fed up with it. I have things to do. College starts again tomorrow. I’m still walking and trying to get a bit fitter, but I feel like I’ve been knocked off my feet. I will see how I feel later but I might have an early night. I haven’t blogged much today. I have a few pictures I might add. I don’t know yet….

My hero

Posted on September 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Arguing, Bad behaviour, Couple, Hubby, Intervention, Life, My hero, Police, Random, SamaritanLeave a comment

No not Batman, my hubby. We were walking home this evening, when we saw a young couple over the other side of the road start to argue. The man was taller than the young woman and had started swearing at her. She was arguing back but getting the worst end of things, suddenly he picked her up over his shoulder and started to run with her. Like a rugby tackle. There were people walking past next to the couple but they were doing nothing, just walking past and away. Suddenly next to me my hubby started shouting. Oi, put her down! Leave her alone! What do you think you are doing?!, the man put the girl down. They were still fighting though. So he carried on shouting, leave her alone! I’m calling the police if you don’t leave her alone! We were still over the road, I got my phone out to ring them up, but the couple ran off into the darkness. I hope the woman will be OK. She ran off with the man, perhaps they had been drinking or taking drugs? At least my hubby intervened. He stopped them hurting each other.

Darn!

Posted on September 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bench, Bolts, Countersunk, Darn, Drat, Forgot, Memory, Random, Wooden slats2 Comments

I ordered some wood to replace the slats on our bench and it was due to be collected on Tuesday. I paid for it, but I forgot to collect it! The builder was going to put it back together for us. Not sure I can do it myself as I think it will require countersunk bolts! Darn it! Hate forgetting things!

Penkhull Won!

Posted on September 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Design, Flag, Penkhull's flag, Random, Sleepless in Stoke, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Tired now, Twitter, Up most of the nightLeave a comment

After twenty four hours and over 13000 votes Penkhull’s flag finally won out over Tiree in Scotland by 51.5% to 48.5%. So very very close. I couldn’t resist going on twitter every few minutes to check what was happening, through most of the night! It’s silly but I’m very proud of our little village in the city.

The flag institute who ran the poll was amazed at the number of votes that were cast. The lead swapped backwards and forwards between us and Tiree. A wonderful feeling to have actually won!

Up supporting Penkhull

Posted on September 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #golittlechickengo, #penkhull, #StokeOnTrent, #WorldSeriesOfFlags, @theflaginstitute, Art, Design, Domesday book, England, Flag, Random, Scotland, Sleepless, Tired, Tiree, TwitterLeave a comment

I live in Stoke-on-Trent and the village at the top of our hill is called Penkhull. It was mentioned in the Domesday book and was a Royal Manor from 1086 to the time of Edward the Second. It is a village in a city and people like it so much that they had a competition to design a flag.

The flag has a golden Cockerel symbolising the weather vane on top of the church steeple. It stands on a blue ground which is for the blue of Spode, the old pottery firm in nearby Stoke-upon-Trent that manufactured ceramic products including the willow pattern pots that became synonymous with the factory.

The yellow oval and lines radiating out are for the road around the village green and the four roads each leading downhill from the village.

The green is to show that is a green place in the middle of a city. The whole design was approved by vexillologists (no I didn’t know that word before the competition) from a charity called the flag institute.

So why am I up? Penkhull is taking part in a competition being run by @theflaginstitute on Twitter. It is in the #WorldSeriesOfFlags and is up against the golden rays of barley from #tiree in Scotland. This is the final. I have not been able to sleep since I saw that Tiree had got ahead of us in the final they are on about 51.8% and we are on 48.2%? Something like that. Its very even between the two places.

Don’t know if I can get back to sleep…. The vote on Twitter ends at 11am. I think I’m in for a long night.

Dragonfly

Posted on September 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Adjustments, Dragonfly, Environment, Insect, Life, Nature, Random, Spirit animalLeave a comment

My friend found this in her house today. She said it was like her spirit animal. I loved the idea. She let it fly free. I wish I had seen it. I’ve had to adjust the exposure and colour to try and make it visible because it was a very dark image originally. The structure of a dragonfly is amazing. It looks like the bones of a spine with a skull and wings.

Mallaband-Brown

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