A painting

Posted on November 12, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Careful, Cost, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2117, Fine Art, Insurance, Life, non specific, Prompt, Time6 Comments

Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).

I don’t think my insurance company would appreciate me giving out details of what I bought and how much it cost. This post may be fun, but it’s encouraging people to share information that might just be tempting enough to cause a theft.

Yes I know I might be overreacting, but my Jetpack account gets shared to other social media sites. People here might not know where I live, but others do.

I’d like to know who writes these prompts? I try to answer most of them, then I wonder if I’m being foolish? Yes it’s more content for my page, and it saves me having to think about a topic sometimes. But am I letting my guard down too much! I can chose my own topics and be circumspect, but answering others questions can be too enlightening for your own good. Beware…

November sky

Posted on November 11, 2023November 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumnal, Cold, Colours, Garden Centre, Leaves, November, Photo, Sunshine, Time, View, Weather2 Comments

There’s still leaves on the trees and we are almost half way through November! The air hasn’t been very cold so the leaves are only gradually turning autumnal. And we have not had too much strong wind here so they haven’t blown off yet. This was the view from the car park at the garden centre today. A lovely blue sky, bright sunlight from a dazzlingly low sun, trees still in leaf. Feels like summer except it was quite cold.

Screen time

Posted on November 9, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged answer, Computer, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2114, Life, Phone, Screens, TimeLeave a comment

How do you manage screen time for yourself?

I don’t manage it well, when my hands get tired I put my phone down, or when I watch something on TV. But I think I’m addicted. I like a couple of word games and play them on my phone, then there’s art, and taking photos of things I like.

Currently I’m watching a very old Alfred Hitchcock film from the 1930’s. It’s a romance. TV screen…

Apart from that I’m on a few social media platforms (too many for my own good! ).

To be honest I wish I could turn the clock back and STEP AWAY FROM THE SCREENS!

Have I bored you?

Posted on November 8, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Boring, Cats, Life, nerd, Questions, Science, Thoughts, Time, topics, Tuxedo cat, what do you want?7 Comments

How do I get readers attention?

Should I write:

Poems, stories about cats, short stories, art, life, Sci fi, a mixture? I try and keep up with the times, but am I boring you? I need to be self critical and also intelligible. Are my posts interesting? I try and be polite, considerate, thoughtful, but I’m probably too old fashioned.

I can’t talk about pop music, and I love science. I try and think things through. I think I must be a nerd

So far this post has been about me (I), but really, what about you?

Have you any suggestions, and ideas, are you interested in knitting or quantum physics? I can’t promise to be able to write about either, but I’m willing to try!

Bench

Posted on November 8, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bench, Breath, gust, Leaves, Life, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Relax, Rest, Robin, settle, Time, trilling, Wind2 Comments

Sit on a bench

Be quiet

Listen to a Robin

Trilling his song.

The wind floats leaves

Wafted from branches

Zig zagging down.

A sudden breeze

Twirls and swirls

In a mini tornado

The gust stops

Leaves settle.

My gaze settles

My breath, released.

For what?

Posted on November 8, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1 minute., alarm, Cooking, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2113, Oven, Thinking, Time, Timer2 Comments

Do you need time?

A time to live, and a time to die, as the saying goes. We all sometimes need time to accomplish things. But then we need time to rest.

For some reason when I’m cooking I know exactly when to go back to the oven. The timer will invariably be at 1 minute to go. If I had waited longer the alarm would go off. I don’t know how I do it?

I’m always late, I somehow manage to leave five minutes later than I would need to, to be on time. I guess that is my procrastination.

I think I need time to sort myself out. Mire rest, less rushing.

Who knows?

Posted on November 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Change, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2112, entropy, Knowledge, Life, Plans, Prompt, Thinking, Time4 Comments

What will your life be like in three years?

Life might change, it might be the same. So much has happened over the last few years that I honestly don’t know. I might move on somewhere else, or stay here. We might have new neighbours. I might win the lottery, but probably not.

We make plans, but life has a way of confusing things. Even if you are strong and rational it doesn’t mean things will always go OK. I don’t mean to be negative though. It’s just that the chaos humans can create around themselves impacts on others too. Disorder happens. Entropy can mean moving from order to disorder. I’m thinking of lots of words that just mean I don’t think I can predict what will happen. I can try and hope though that things will be better.

As you get older life can get sorted out or complicated. It really means you have to have enough money to live on. Sometimes that’s not possible. Better to be organised sooner rather than later.

Experimenting

Posted on November 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Changes, Experiment, Memory, Photo, Photodirector, sprinkles, Time, Tools, Tree2 Comments

I added the sprinkles onto this photo of a tree, as if all the leaves were falling off at once. I can’t remember how I did it, but I think I used photodirector. The image is from about four years ago, and the app has changed since then, so some of the different tools have changed and I’m not sure I could do this again. X

Leaves

Posted on November 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Autumn, Cold, Colours, Dying, frosty, Leaves, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Time2 Comments

Dying, falling, asleep

Red, green, brown

Gold and yellow

Pallid light breaks

Over crisping leaves.

Frosty, foggy, cold,

Mist and mizzel.

Wet rain drips

From sullen trees.

4 years ago

Posted on November 3, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Landscape, Memory, Photo, Photodirector, playing fields, textured, Time, Trees, Winter2 Comments

View of trees and local playing fields up our hill. It was four years ago. I took a photo during the winter and the trees looked skeletal. I put this through photodirector a couple of times to get the textured look. It almost looks like looking through a wet windscreen, where the lines are blurred and smeared. I think I might paint it.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time