🌨 Snow

Posted on January 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chilly, Cold, Freezing, Insulation, Keeping warm, Life, Snow, terrace, Wet snow, Winter2 Comments

Big wet flakes of snow. Its too cold to open up the back door and film it. I’m shivering and cold so I’m wrapped up. Our heating system is on but our house isn’t well insulated so it doesn’t retain heat. I would like to get it done but I don’t have the money and I can’t get a grant….. Life. We live in a small victorian end terrace house with a small extension of a kitchen and bathroom. They are the worst bit because I think they are only a single layer of bricks and the flat roof is not really insulated either. I should just shut the door, but then how would the cats get in and out? So I’m sitting watching the flakes fall. They are only starting to stick now. It’s not supposed to fall for long then it should turn to rain. Whatever happens I don’t feel like going out in it. Keep warm….

Painting from college

Posted on December 31, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, boyfriend, College, Fine Art, Hubby, Life, Memory, Oil on canvas, Painting, Portrait, SnowLeave a comment

This is a painting I did when I was about twenty. I was at college doing my fine art degree and I had recently met my then boyfriend (now hubby). This was in my small studio at college. The painting has been on the wall for several years. I painted him sitting on a chair with his feet up. He hasn’t changed too much.

Outside there was snow lying on the hills above the city. You could just see the roofs of the college across the road. The rooms we worked in were reasonably light. I remember the studios upstairs had parquet flooring. It was a different world from what I came from. I’m glad I went.

Snowy day

Posted on December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Christmas, Christmas day, Copyright?, Fun, Mystery, orange sky, Santa, Short story, sleigh, Snow, WritingLeave a comment

‘Nah’ he said, ‘it’s not going to snow on Christmas day!’

His daughter looked upset, but her mum said ‘Dad is always right about the weather.’

She went upstairs to bed, it was Christmas Eve and she was 7. She believed her Dad but really truly wished for the snow to come. She wanted to get up and see if Santa had been yet, but it was only ten o’clock and Santa didn’t arrive till midnight. The stairs light was on and she tried to stare at it to keep awake. But she couldn’t keep her eyes open…

Suddenly she woke. The stairs light was off and she didn’t know the time, but there was a strange silence outside except for.. A scrabbling sound on the roof. A slithering sound, a tap and a rattle. What was it? And the sky was a funny orange colour. She had never seen it like that before? Soft noises tickled her ears again. She had a chimney in her room but the hole where there used to be a fire was boarded up. But she could hear something..

She looked out of the window, moving the net curtain to one side. The sky was still orangey grey and what looked like feathers were floating down… Was it? Snow? She put on her slippers and silently went downstairs. She saw it was five o’clock in the morning. Still dark and far too early for her parents to be up. Instead of looking in the lounge to find out if she had presents she walked through the kitchen and stepped out of the back door. Snow! Yes!

Suddenly a trickle of snow fell from the roof above her. Then a little avalanche. She heard scrabbling again so she looked up…. Just as the reindeer and sleigh leapt up from the roof and flew into the sky!

More snow

Posted on December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged carbon footprint, Cold, Heating, Life, Poem, Poetry, Snow, Time, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

More snow due.

My nose? Blue!

If heating on

Money will be gone.

Winds a beast

From the north east

Cats have coats

So they’re warm as toast!

So wearing layers

To be lower payers.

One way to reduce

Carbon footprint use.

Snowing

Posted on November 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Freezing, Fun, Garden, Life, Memory, November, Photos, Snow, snowing, WeatherLeave a comment

A few shots of the snow outside in the garden. The snow is only a couple of centimetres deep but is continuing to fall. I don’t think this weather will last long, but it does seem strange that it’s falling in November. Most years we don’t get anything even at Christmas. It sometimes snows in the new year and can last a couple of weeks but generally it’s been mild for most winters. What does worry me is the cost of heating our house. Gas and electricity bills are skyrocketing. Ah well, that’s life.

Cold snap

Posted on November 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged bad weather, Cold, Ice, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Snow, storm Arwen, Weather, winteryLeave a comment

Warning arrives

Snow flies

Blizzards may be

As Arwen, a storm

Comes in from the sea.

Strengthening winds

Blustery showers

Branches may fall

Throughout the day.

Ice and snow flutters

Into the gutters

When will it go?

who knows!

1980’s views

Posted on October 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Forty years, Memory, photo album, Photos, Remembered, Snow, Time, Winter, YouthLeave a comment

Photos from an old album. They were taken forty years ago. They won’t mean anything to anyone except me. They are old memories. Of winter when snow fell deep. When I lived in a flat. When the underfloor heating woukd blow out in a strong wind and me and my friends would be very cold till it was fixed.

It also has memories of when the skyline of the city was simpler, when some of the houses still stood. The colours are strange because I always used 400 iso film. That and the misty murk makes it look very gloomy despite the snow. So much has changed since then. No tape recorders or cassette tapes. No black and white TV’s. Even videos seem to have come and gone. Computers were only just being introduced. Yes my memory goes back a long way.

Blossom

Posted on July 29, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cherry blossom, Cherry tree, Face, Painting, Profile, Shadows, SnowLeave a comment

It’s been a while since I painted this. It’s a cherry tree in blossom in the snow. I like turning trees into faces. When it happens that you can see faces in objects or photos it’s called Pareidolia. But if I create the pattern myself is it something else?

I may do some similar art soon. I will see if the idea appeals to me.

Finally walking again

Posted on April 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Cold, Exercise, Lake, Longport, Photos, Sky, Snow, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Walking, Westport lakeLeave a comment

As we arrived at Westport Lake today it started to snow. It didn’t stick, but children were running screaming as it came down thick and fast. We sat and waited in the car till it stopped. I didn’t take a photo of it because my phone was stuck in my pocket trapped between me and the car door.

Then out, a quick visit to the icecream van for a treat and round the latge lake once and the small one twice. No where near as far as I would normally do, but I managed to get enough steps and heart points in to meet my daily challenge. I’m shattered but happy!

Snow and sun

Posted on April 6, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #100daydrawingchallenge, Cold, Ill, Shattered, shops, Showers, Snow, Tired, WalkingLeave a comment

Blurry back yard, the plants have been watered and are starting to grow. But the snow showered us today. Cold winds blew, and the outdoor cat came in to get warm.

Health wise I went to the shop, but after walking just 2 km I was absolutely shattered. Still that’s 2km more than I’ve done for the last two days! I hope I’ll be able to do more tomorrow….

Mallaband-Brown

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