New neighbour

Posted on August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bonfire, Burning, Disturbed, Empty, Garden rubbish, Neighbour, Sad, Time, Upset3 Comments

He’s moving in, cut back his garden, and I feel encroached on. For the last few days he’s been burning the plants he cut down. I explained I want to put the washing on the line so he said he would stop, so I put a load of washing on a fast wash. Span it a couple of times. Meanwhile the smoke abated. I decided to do some washing up and to empty the bins. When I looked again? The smoke had started up again.

He appears to be OK, but I feel a bit bullied. Next door was empty for a year, which was peaceful. But now he’s pestering me to get my garden cut back. I’ll get it tidied, but it’s going to cost thousands to cut down and I don’t want to, it’s my nature haven. With him on one side and the shop on the other hacking at my hedge I feel like I’m being assaulted from both sides. I feel less safe than when things were emptied. Now he’s taking my brown bin to put garden rubbish in. I’m letting him use it once but I have explained it’s my bin and I pay to have it emptied.

Last Gladioli flower

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, fade, Flower, Gladioli, going, Life, Memory, Peeling paint, Plant, Red, Sad, step, witherLeave a comment

This morning the last flower on the Gladioli stem had fallen onto the path. I think someone had knocked it off as they walked past. I picked it up and put it on my step because I liked it’s beauty against the old peeling paint. It will soon fade and wither so I’m glad I captured it before it’s gone.

Cut

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged destroyed, Gardening, Gone, hacked, House sparrows, Lost, nests, no life, Poem, Poetry, Roots, Sad, SadnessLeave a comment

My yard, flowers

Apple tree grows,

Next door? Hedge gone

Cut, hacked, defiled.

The view now, roofs

The birds homes shattered.

Where will the roost tonight,

Open up? Let in the light?

But shade gone, it will be blasted by heat.

The sun not shielded.

A sun trap,

No words can tell my despair?

They left a mess and an old fridge!

Well that’s nice to look at

Not!

Missing cat

Posted on July 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gone, Lost, Missing cat, Sad, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat, where is he, Worried3 Comments

My cat has gone missing. He’s a large cat with a distinctive smudge on his nose. He might have got shut in somewhere if he’s found a place to sleep in the shade. I’ve looked round the garden, round the back of the house. I’ve knocked on neighbours doors. I’ve been down to the pdsa but they haven’t had him handed in. I rang the local vets, but they are closed till Monday so I rang their emergency vets but they are in Nantwich. He was abandoned by his previous owners who would not speak to the cats protection league so I was never able to get his microchip changed over. He’s a very loving cat, very big, he might have gone up to someone. All I can hope is he might be asleep somewhere because of the heat. But then he comes in for a drink and food? I don’t know what to do. Posted to Facebook.

Almost bedtime

Posted on July 18, 2024July 18, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Day, Heart, Insomnia, Loss, Love, Night, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Sleep, Sunlight, Thoughts, WordsLeave a comment

The nights are getting longer

The days slightly shorter

It’s almost bedtime

But I’m hot

My heart aches, my mind too

So I’ll sit and watch TV a bit

No sensible thoughts in my mind

Just watching the nights decline

Into a slow dawn.

Maybe the sun will shine bright

In the morning after this night.

I don’t know

Time goes slow

When you’re alone

With the pain of loss.

Lots of things

Posted on July 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bothered, Confused, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2000, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

What bothers you and why?

The world seems upside down inside out

I’m bothered by lots of things.. about

Broken tiles

Corrupt files

Parking woes

A split hose

Not enough bees

Leaves leaving trees

Too hot one day

Too cold the next day

Inconvenient thoughts

Complicated sports

Not enough food

Having a low mood.

They all bother me

I guess that’s how I see

The world

Unfurled.

No cherries, no pears

Posted on July 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged apples, Bees, Cherries, Cold, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Pears, Sad, Trees, Wet, WindyLeave a comment

Each year we have cherries and pears on our trees. The birds get most of the cherries but we get good pears, that is until this year.

We had a lovely display of blossom. The cherry and the pear tree blossomed first. Early in spring. Lots of flowers, pink and white. But I was worried because it was cold and wet and windy and I didn’t see many insects (and we don’t seem to have had birds nesting either). A couple of weeks later the blossom had faded and petals showered the ground. Then the apple tree came into blossom. The sun shone and bees arrived. Now I have no cherries, I saw the little stalks with tiny pips all over the ground, and no discernable baby pears. It’s so sad. It’s like they have given up now hubby is gone.

My only consolation is that there are lots of apples on the tree. But it hangs over into my neighbours yard and I am worried they will cut it back, and as there is a trellis fence in the way I can’t access the fruit. Drat!

Gobbledegook

Posted on June 12, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Argument, Facebook, gobbledegook, misunderstanding, Poem, Poetry, Questioning, Sad, spam2 Comments

Life, words, misunderstanding.

Write a post.

Be accused of spam.

No explanation that makes sense

Accusation not understanding

Unjustified censorship

Because there is no subtle thought

No questioning

Just bland arguing

Failing all.

Gobbledegook again.

Misunderstanding can be discussed

In a fair world.

Lost my purse

Posted on January 29, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, can't afford, Cat, cat purse, Frustrated, losing, Lost, Money, Sad, Tuxedo cat10 Comments

I’ve lost my favourite purse. Small and soft material, I’ve had it for years, it was getting scruffy but I loved it. I think I must have pulled it out of my pocket yesterday when I was out for a walk. I know I took money out to pay for something, but stuffed it back in because my friend paid. Then it’s a blur, perhaps as I took a tissue out it fell out. I’ve rung the place we visited but no one has handed it in. Someone has probably had the cash. I almost drove back today but thought better of it. Too late. I seem to be losing a lot of things at the moment. So upsetting.

Train time

Posted on January 19, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cheddleton, Churnet valley railway, Hubby, Leek, Memories, Sad, Staffordshire, Steam trains, Trains4 Comments

Watercolour painting of the top half of Cheddleton Station near Leek in Staffordshire. I have travelled on the steam train from there several times with my hubby. Something I will really miss. He was a bit of a steam train fanatic and always had masses of information in his mind. He recognised the make and types of trains (and tractors and cars) he could tell the make of tractors by the colours they were painted. Old Fergus on tractors were grey ‘old grey Fergie’ he would say.

Here’s a link to their website:

https://www.churnetvalleyrailway.co.uk/

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Sad