Deleted photos

Posted on May 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Deleting, Life, Memory, Photos, Thinking, thousands, Time, WordPress, WordPress media libraryLeave a comment

I’ve got too many photos in my phone. It’s crept up to over 17000 and it’s hard to delete them. The personal ones are really hard to let go. I’m attached to so many of them. I’m not sure if I can wave them goodbye. They do hold me in the past. Tie me together like wrapping paper and string.

The WordPress account only allows a maximum amount of memory and I keep hitting 100 %, so every so often I delete pictures. If I can I remove the free photos from the free photo library, or blurry, not very good ones from my own pictures. I know it’s not what I want to do, but I can’t afford to take on a bigger package. Anyway that means some posts are now lacking images. But I try to delete as few as I can. X

My sad garden.

Posted on May 22, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Memory, Plants, pots, Spring, Summer, Thinking, Time, Wishing2 Comments

Normally by now I would be showing you beautiful photos of my garden, but I hardly go out the back door anymore. My hubby used to carry in bags of compost and I would refill pots with it and buy plants to fill them. But now I need help. I want to be sure I won’t fall or trip up! Must get some help. X

I miss the sea

Posted on May 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Driving, Life, Memory, Ocean, Poem, Poetry, Postcard, Regrets, Sea, Thinking, tide, ViewLeave a comment

I see the sea and wish

I could be there to see it.

Sending postcards to

Wish you were there

Friends and family

When will I go back?

It’s not far away in distance

But it is in time

I don’t know if I can go now.

I lost my confidence

Don’t feel safe

Travelling the distance….

The tide is out for me.

Freedom should be fair.

Posted on May 10, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1935, Equality, Fairness, freedom, Learning, Prompt, ThinkingLeave a comment

What does freedom mean to you?

Freedom should go hand in hand with equality. The right to speak out about problems in society, to try and eradicate things like torture and violence and wars. To reduce poverty and share resources and responsibilities more fairly. And also allow religious freedom as long as it doesn’t discriminate against others.

I know it’s impossible. Human behaviour makes selfishness and greed almost impossible to avoid. But we should try. Some rich people create foundations to make their wealth go to the poorest, the most needy. They show up the other wealthy millionaires and billionaires as people stifling equality and freedom.

Freedom is the ability to learn. To understand, to share knowledge. To show we are more than bluntly uncaring primates. Perhaps our anticedents with simpler lives may have been happier than modern humans can ever be. I am a naive idealistic person but I do care.

Retirement!

Posted on May 8, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged career, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1933, hopes, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, retire, Thinking, WorkLeave a comment

What is your career plan?

Playing mahjong

I’ve worked long and hard

Given work some welly

Retirement would be fine

I mean resting and learning

New things.

I’m semi retired now

But I’m below retirement age

Which keeps moving on

I would have retired four years ago

Except they changed the rules…

Ah well at least I can.

Communication or not?

Posted on May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged arguments, Communication, Facebook, Life, misunderstood, Opinion, Talking, Thinking1 Comment

I have a good friend who has become slightly obsessed with a subject. She is determined to get her point of view across but I fundamentally disagree with her. I said as much on a post today but she wasn’t impressed. I can’t get her to understand you shouldn’t tar everyone with the same brush. Not everyone is the same, not everyone of a certain type of person will act in a specific way.

She started to talk about someone and I pointed out that my examples were not that person and I wasn’t going to describe or identify them. I don’t think that’s the right thing to do in public.

So why talk about communication? Well it’s that thing about nuance. Unless you write exactly the right words it’s hard to get your point across. Typing and texting don’t show emotions so maybe physically talking to that person might get your message across better than in writing. At the moment I’m nervous to respond to her, I don’t want to lose her friendship.

Last night

Posted on May 4, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acting, Garden, Neighbours, Night, Noises, Phone call, Police, Sound, Thinking, Worry1 Comment

Last night I thought I heard movement in the garden, a bit of noise, something rattled. I didn’t know what to do so I opened the back door. I think the noise was coming from a neighbouring property but just to be on the safe side I made a noise to make them aware someone had noticed. Then I did something strange. My phone was on charge but I pretended I was speaking to the police! I had a one sided conversation and left gaps as if I was listening to their response. It went something like this…..

Hello

Police please?

Hello, I’m ringing from…..

I can hear movement and think there is someone in my garden.

Yes it’s been happening for a few minutes.

You’ve got someone in the area?

Thank you

Ten minutes? I’ll lock the door and wait..

It was a bit like improvised acting. I don’t know why I did it. I wasn’t going to go outside, and I wanted to make anyone out there aware they might be caught. I feel a bit daft now. Was I right to do it?

Don’t trust the results!

Posted on April 30, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, bolt game, Colours, Hand eye coordination, IQ, Play, Screws, Silly, Test, ThinkingLeave a comment

I frequently get games popping up in adverts on my phone and sometimes they say they will measure your IQ?

I just played a game where you ‘unscrew’ bolts that hold a building together. You have to rotate the building in 3d to find the bolts, and also you have to chose the correct colours to remove so that they slot into three matching coloured holes at the top of the page.

I started and kept going to the end, when the counter for IQ got over 120 I was surprised, but as I removed the screws it kept increasing (it didn’t get more difficult). When it finally got to 600 at the end of the game my scepticism peaked!

Silly game, just a test of hand eye coordination.

I’ll never see Cardiff

Posted on April 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cardiff, Gone, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Thinking, Time, Travel, Uwist, VisitLeave a comment

We used to dream of visiting Cardiff

The Welsh capital city

Where you went to Uwist university

But I was getting ill

I couldn’t drive there

And your anxiety held me still

We’d go next summer

Before it was too late

But we ran out of time

That was our fate

Never to see the city

Where you studies science

Now there is no visit

Only cold silence.

Keep forgetting to post

Posted on April 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Questioning, Thinking, Time, Tired, WritingLeave a comment

Writing is hard sometimes

Thinking of things to say

When I’m exhausted

Thoughts stray

Are unkempt like my hair

Struggling to make sense

Of my course through life.

I’m writing in a book too

Fighting with prompts

Trying to decide

What to say and do.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Thinking