Bright

Posted on August 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft, Design, Digital drawing, digital modification, Fun, note cards, Pattern, Printing, ThinkingLeave a comment

Colourful patterns swirling round and merging. It could be alien or insect. Maybe a design for fabric or a stained glass window. I like complexity, I don’t know if something like this would be a good idea for printing onto a note card?

I have talked about doing this before but have never been organised enough to do it. I have lots of ideas but I think I need some expert advice. Which are the best sites to get things printed at? I need quality prints, but not too expensive. I found a shop that might do it but I haven’t got the money to do it yet…

Gratitude

Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Diary, Drawing, gratitude, Life, Ptsd, rewiring your brain, Sketching, small gratitudes, Thinking, three, World3 Comments

I’m due to see my doctor about anxiety and my hubby has ptsd so I need to find strategies to cope. I think counselling helps but I’m going to try and keep a gratitude diary, where you write three minor gratitudes a day every night for at least 28 days. It helps rewire your brain towards more positive thinking. I’m going to start a little sketchbook and do simple sketches of them. Like the traffic lights stayed on green for me yesterday when I was going somewhere and was late, so that was a little gratitude, I met someone who gave me this idea, that’s a small gratitude, and someone cleared away some flytipping in the alley next to our garden, that’s the third. I will add small sketches to illustrate mine. I think it might help my creativity and give me new ideas, but if it doesn’t I’m not worried because I think it will help me cope. You don’t record big things, just small gratitudes.

Gratitude for seeing beauty could be one thing for my diary.

Where have all the clouds gone?

Posted on August 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged carbon di oxide, carbon emissions, Clouds, Earth, global warming, Heat, Learning, Life, Science, Thinking, Water, weather rainLeave a comment

Parts of Britain and France are turning brown, fires are burning in France. Its happening across Europe. Its happening in America. Where has the rain gone? Crops are withering in places where the monthly rainfall has dwindled to almost nothing. Will the climate recover? Will rainfall be abundant again? The weather has only been overheated for a short time, but the damage is being done. What will happen in the future if we don’t reduce Carbon emissions and slow the increase in temperature we are currently experiencing? We are such a destructive species and we have started to overwhelm Earth. We only have one planet. Let’s try and take care of it.

Black and white films

Posted on August 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white film, celebrity, Film, film noir, Hollywood, Old fashioned, Stars, ThinkingLeave a comment

Oh I love a good black and white film noir film. Lots of riddles to solve. Not too much actual violence. Tension rising, suspenseful music (we sometimes have the subtitles on for hubby and it will say ‘suspenseful music’, ‘door creaking’ and other remarks). The films often have a moral point that makes it impossible for the victim to make a bad decision, like killing the suspected murderer before they themselves are killed. Usually they seem to have to go through great distress and danger before surviving/escaping their fate.

What I like is, despite being farfetched, they are less violent, less verbally abusive, and more thought provoking. In other words its not like watching a film that is more like a video game. I think I prefer a time of old fashioned films, real Hollywood a listers and less ‘celebrity’.

Boredom

Posted on August 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bored, in the past, Lonely, Memory, peaceful, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Sea, Sundays, ThinkingLeave a comment

Staring into space

Staring over the sea

A lone figure, that is me.

I want silence,

or quiet waves lapping

A gentle breeze.

Not lonely, just bored.

Every Sunday was boring

In my youth

Shops shut

Nothing to see or do!

Now I feel the same

No-one is to blame!

But I’m bored,

So bored…

Bored

Above

Posted on August 3, 2022August 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Building, Hills, kitchen cupboards, Moon, Mountain, Planets, Stars, Sun, Sy, Thinking, Tree, UpstairsLeave a comment

What is Above? Is it only sky? I have a prompt to draw for and I’m trying to think what to do. I can start with tree branches or tall buildings towering over me. They reach up above me. Basically as I’m short anything above 5ft 6 inches is above me, so that includes kitchen cupboards! Upstairs? That too….

Then the blue sky and clouds are above us. The clouds could be white and fluffy or dark and threatening rain…but mountains can also tower above us. Even hills. The Blackpool tower?

Follow that with planes, satellites, space stations….

Asteroids, meteors, comets, planets, the moon, the sun, stars, the Oort cloud, cosmic rays, the milky way, galaxies, the universe.

I’m starting to feel rather small….

Oh dear!

Posted on August 1, 2022August 2, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 100 grams, checking, Fruit, Glucose Syrup, look it up, Sugar, Sweets, Taste, Tasty, Thinking1 Comment

I just saw my friend eat a packet of sweets. Out of interest, because I don’t eat things like that, I wondered what amount of sugar he had eaten….

It’s hard to see but seven sweets have 16.4 grams of sugar, and the packet contains seven servings. One hundred grams of sweets contains 61.4 grams of sugar.

But that’s not all, the actual weight of the packet was 143 grams. So approximately 100 grams of that was sugar…. Like eating a tenth of a kilogram bag of sugar.

This sweet fruity treat has the main ingrelisted first, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Starch, inverted sugar syrup, etc.

What got me the most was we have a fruit bowl full of oranges in the kitchen. Why is stuff like this sold?

Pool…

Posted on August 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Challenge, Funny, Laughing, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, Silly, Thinking, Words2 Comments

EstherChiltonblog sets word challenges on a Monday and a Thursday which I like to try. Today’s was laughing along with a limerick and the challenge word was POOL…

I decided to write something silly…

A pool table on a pool is odd!
But there it floated on its tod
It seemed unattended?
But suddenly, that ended
As the black was potted by a Cod!

Sleep and dream.

Posted on July 23, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 'the', Dreams, Learning, Relaxation, Sleep, Sleeping, Thinking, Time, Words2 Comments

Insomnia is a nuisance. It’s upset my sleep pattern for years. I still have trouble sleeping but someone told me a way of trying to alleviate the problem. I was told to think of the word ‘the’ to help me sleep. ‘the’ has nothing to latch onto, so while your brain is thinking of the word ‘the’ it’s hard to think of anything else. It actually seems to work for me.

It’s been a few weeks and I’ve actually found that I can get better sleep. My mind is sneaky though and as I’m starting to drift off it seems to insert the worries I’m trying to avoid, then I have to go back to ‘the’ again…. And sometimes again.

Another effect is that I’m having dreams, lots of them, I can’t remember them, but they seem quite interesting at the time. Maybe I should write them down.

Cornwall in the distance

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beach, Bovisand Bay, Cornwall, Devon, Landscape, People, Plymouth, Rain, Thinking, thunder storms, ViewLeave a comment

Across from Plymouth Sound in Devon sits the County of Cornwall. This is the view from Bovisand Bay. I love the South West of England. I would live there if I could afford it instead of the occasional visits we make every few years. I think it’s the attraction of the sea. We stayed in a caravan site near this bay on summer and saw a massive thunderstorm. The lightning was striking the surface of the water and we could look across the bay and see it hitting the Cornish side. It was like a spectacular light show.

Talking about thunder and lightning, we might be getting thundery showers on Wednesday or Thursday if the weather forecast is correct. I hope we get a decent amount of rain. Not the thing for a beach holiday, but we certainly need some water on the land.

Mallaband-Brown

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