Haunted bike light?

Posted on September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bike light, Flashing light, Fun, Haunted, Led's, Red, Short circuit, TechnologyLeave a comment

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It’s on again! My hubby shouted from the kitchen. He’d been outside to check round the garden, and found the back light of his bike was flashing. But he’d turned it off after he’d found it flashing earlier. It was one of those multi function lights with different patterns each time you press the button.

Well has anyone got into the garden? I asked. No one can get through the fence, and why would they want to switch a flashing rear light on. I don’t know, he said but I’ve switched it off.

The next night he was checking round the garden again. It’s on again! He said excitedly. Well it must be broken, bring it in. It’s probably got rain in it.

So last night I walked in the kitchen, it was on again. I pressed the button on the back. Eventually it switched off. We went out for an hour and when we came back it was on again!

I know what to do. So I opened it up and loosened the battery, then I put the front lens back in place. As I went to walk away the lens popped off and landed on the floor! It made me jump! The outcome? It’s in the bin!

Life belt

Posted on September 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Building, Canal, Cauldon canal, Life belts, Red, Trent and mersey canal, Warehouse, WaterLeave a comment

I’m not sure why these are inside a building and not outside by the side of the canal to be used? Perhaps they are old and not the correct standard anymore. Maybe they have been stored in case they are needed? Maybe they are for use by the boat club that meets in the warehouse sometimes. Yes that is damp at the bottom of the wall. The building is between the trent and Mersey canal and the Cauldon canal. It is actually lower down than the water on one side, and next to a deep lock on the other side. So water might be slowly seeping in and the building is over a hundred years old.

Back to the life belts, I guess you could grab them and use them if someone falls in the lock….. I might find out about them…

Red hair, green eyes

Posted on September 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eyes, Family, Green, Memory, Red, Remembering, Short story, Very short storyLeave a comment

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Red hair and green eyed, pale skinned, she stood in the garden in the rain. She looked out over the countryside and remembered her old family farm.

Sadness overwhelmed her as she thought of her mother and father. It was ten years ago since they had died and she wished they were still here. She wanted to be able to pick up the phone and talk to them. She’d always called on Sunday nights. Then one day her father was ill, and in hospital, he passed away that night . Later in the same week her mother died of a heart attack, they said she had a broken heart.

All this was long ago, but the longing to be with them never ended. Her sister had stayed on the farm and inherited it. The problem was they didn’t get on anymore. She couldn’t face going home to the farm. She thought of her red hair, her green eyes, but she had no fire in her mind, no jealousy in her thoughts. The outside did not signify how she felt. She went in and closed the back door.

Gloves

Posted on August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Gloves, Photo, Pink, Red, Spode, Spode site, Work glovesLeave a comment

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Workman’s gloves, these have been tucked behind this pipe for over a year. Like a pink octopus hiding in a crevice in the rock. I imagine the workman or woman who was using them. Did their contract end and they just pushed them behind the pipe thinking they woukd be back in the morning. I can see them being put there then gradually getting soaked over the years. Spiders and slugs colonising them. Each month the sun bleaches them more. Did they start out as red? Were they comfortable or too big or small? I don’t know. They are an enigma.

Red and Green.

Posted on August 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Berries, Cranberry juice, Drink, Frozen, Green, Ice, Low calorie tonic water, RedLeave a comment

As a change from blue, white and black, I’m having a red drink (cranberry juice, slimline tonic and frozen berries instead of ice) in a green glass which is the bottom of a recycled wine bottle.

Tasty, low calorie and has a bit of fibre in it. I think I’m going to have a rest from painting for the rest of the evening.

Fox

Posted on August 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Beauty, Environment, Fox, Life, Micro poem, Poem, Poetry, RedLeave a comment

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Beautiful fox

Red furred wonder,

Sneaky or intelligent,

Fantastic Mr?

Hunted for centuries

By red coated riders

Chased with hounds

For “sport”

Persecuted for being

A fox.

Run out of red

Posted on July 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Colours, Crimson, Flowers, Needs work, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Red, Tiny paintings, Work in progress11 Comments

I want a light red

Not a pink

Not orange

Crimson?

Perhaps,

Maybe vermilion,

Something punchy,

Not magenta,

Not alizarian

Not a deep cadmium red (hue)

So many names

But which one will be right,

What is the correct tinge?

Works in progress

Paint laid on paint,

Building up layers,

Blood red?

Maybe if I put my heart into it.

Painting again

Posted on July 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black canvas, Colour, Design, Flower, Green, Painting, Red, Work in progressLeave a comment

I’ve just started this poppy painting. It’s on a black canvas about 12″ square.

I’m hoping I will be able to build up a depth of colour and detail because of the dark canvas. It’s acrylic on canvas and is going to be big and bold. I need to work on the colours in the poppy but also in the greens of the foliage. I should finish it in the next few days. This is like a practice piece as I have another two black canvases to work on. Not sure what the subject will be.

Cherries

Posted on July 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beak, Birds, Cherries, Eating, Fruit, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Humour, Life, Pecking, Poem, Poetry, Red, RhymeLeave a comment

Loads of ripe cherries

High in the tree

Out of reach of human hands

But not from beaks you see.

Blackbirds, pigeons and magpies

Each have their fill

Of sweet red cherries

They have the skill,

Of flying high above me

Pecking at the fruit

Eating all the ripe ones

In their aerial persuit.

Sweet red cherries

Small and round and neat.

I go without

And the birds get a treat!

Penkhull sunset

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Church, Colour, Evening, Light, Penkhull, Photos, Red, Stoke-on trent, SunsetLeave a comment

The sunset reflected on penkhull Church. I’ve altered the exposure on these, increasing the red or changing the background clouds. The top two are closer to the original pictures, but not as bright as I saw. This is because your eyes accommodate to the light levels, letting more light in by opening your iris in your eye, making the pupil wider. The trouble was as I increased the brightness the sky just disappeared into white, so I tried changing the colours in the curves section of my photo editor.

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Tag: Red