Craft fair in June.

Posted on April 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Craft fair, June, pasting table, small paintings, Stoke-on trent, summer fair, Table, Time, Trentham, warped1 Comment

I said I would post about this. Apart from trying to do some small paintings (see my previous couple of posts) I need to buy a small table. My pasting table was stored outside in the shed and it’s badly warped! I got it because it was cheap, too cheap unfortunately. Anyway I need something big enough, but not too big if you know what I mean. I can’t really carry anything too heavy because of my left arm and shoulder, but I need to make an effort if I’m going to try and do a few craft fairs in the future… It will be interesting to see what other people’s products are like. If its anything like the one I went to a few weeks ago I’ll end up buying more than I sell!

Teary eyed

Posted on April 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Life, Memory, Sadness, Sister, Sketching, Tears, Thought, Time, Twins8 Comments

I found this on my phone and once again remembered. Those thoughts came back again, sadness, guilt, loss. To lose a sister, it’s not right. When it’s a twin it might be worse. I don’t know. But as our birthday approaches, will I be OK? I somehow feel this should be both of us. I want to get to my next birthday, but the idea seems wrong. I will keep going but I’m not sure I will be happy on that day. And it’s not just me, it’s the rest of the family. I guess we will wait and see…. Sorry to post this but I couldn’t get the idea out of my mind.

Wordle-ing!

Posted on April 14, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged addicted, Apps, Engaged, Life, Poem, Poetry, stop, Time, time consuming, Trapped, wordleLeave a comment

I’m caught in an app

I think its a trap!

Spend too much time

On five letter rhyme

Letters to find

To make up words

That makes people nerds!

Poetry of five

I am still alive

Just caught in a puzzle

My brains is a muscle

Trapped

Stop!

Grr, on hold!

Posted on April 13, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged advice line, call, call centre, Humour, Life, minutes, On hold, Phone, Poem, Poetry, Time, Waiting2 Comments

I have just spent a pointless half hour on line to a call centre. I realise they are busy, so I don’t expect to be answered straight away. But listening to dull music with the occasional ‘we will be with you as soon as possible’ really doesn’t help. Each time the music dropped out for the announcement I thought someone would answer.

The list of 8 options to choose from was also frustrating. None of them really fitted with the question I wanted to ask:

Press 1 for fate

Press 2 for hate

Press 3 for karma

Press 4 for drama!

Press 5 for applying

Press 6 for annoying

Press 7 for an answer

Press 8 for a dancer!

My mind was boggled so I gave up. If they had only said you are number (1-100) in the queue, and the waiting time is….. Minutes. That would have been helpful. As it was the only people getting anywhere are the phone company!

A new drawing

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Doodle, Drawing, Fast drawing, few minutes, Life, Sketching, Sketching app, Time2 Comments

I’ve found a new sketching app to download. I’ve used it before on my PC but not on my phone. It has a myriad of tools and a lot more flexibility than the previous sketching app I had. It’s not as intuative but as I sort of know my way round it I’ve got a headstart. This doodle was done in a few minutes. It was meant to resemble the Alfred Hitchcock cartoon but it doesn’t really. Still it sort of works I guess.

Robin Hood

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Archery, Arrows, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1901, Hollywood, Life, Memories, mock orange, Playing, Robin Hood, Target, Time, TV programmeLeave a comment

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

I’m not sure when I decided I wanted to be Robin Hood but I was a small child and I used to make bows and arrows out of the mock orange bushes in the garden. The twigs are springy and bent well without breaking, you could also use the straight twigs as arrows. I got quite good at firing them at little targets in the garden.

I guess it all started when I used to watch Robin Hood a programme on the TV starting Richard Green I think. I used to sing along with the theme tune. I also loved the Hollywood films with Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks Junior playing Robin.

I wasn’t really interested in Maid Marion, she had to get Robin to help her escape when the Sherriff of Nottingham captured her. Or she was always doing embroidery or weaving… Boring! I didn’t want to be a boy, but my father used to encourage me to do woodwork and I loved climbing trees. I was good at sport and running when I was young, but I grew out of it and it wasn’t until I got into cycling while I was at college that I got fit again because I cycled everywhere.

So yes, I’d like to have been Robin Hood because there were no exciting female role models except for maybe Emma Peel in the Avengers… That’s another possibility…

I’m late!

Posted on April 8, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alice in Wonderland, aponea, Bed, frustration, Insomnia, Late, Sleep, Thinking, Time, Tired, White rabbit1 Comment

The white rabbit was at the New Victoria Theatre, artist unknown.

Time, delay, late, always late.

I can’t sleep due to insomnia. So when and if I do sleep I can’t always get up.

So I’m late, it takes me time to get ready, I have the best intentions, but by the time I’m sorted out its sometimes too late to get things done or go somewhere. I do hate it, thank goodness I don’t have early starts at work like I used to.

My car clock broke (I think its mechanical mechanism froze this winter), so I don’t rush to appointments any more, I’m not trying to beat the clock as it isn’t there. I have to try and work the time out by listening to the radio. If the shipping forecast is on I know it’s either very early or late at night!

Books….

Posted on April 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Author, Blank verse, Books, bookshelf, Knowledge, Library, Memory, Poem, Poetry, save them, Time7 Comments

Books, important things

Full of knowledge

Truth and lies

Freedom to think

Words have strength

Shout out loud

Of time and history.

So many subjects

Art, Biology, Cheese and wine

Gullivers travels

Earth and sky.

Let them live,

Don’t ban books

Or burn them

Fahrenheit 451

Flames lick away

Knowledge, peace, understanding

A bookshelf a day

Keeps misunderstanding

At bay.

Love

Posted on April 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged fleeting, fondness, Happy, Life, Living, Love, Luck, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sad, TimeLeave a comment

Love writes a story

A thread in your life

It may be long,

Or short.

It may only exist in your mind

A fleeting idea

Gone in seconds

Or love might

Last a lifetime

Tie your tongue,

Close your eyes

Ignore reality

Hold you tight

Love can be

Wonderful or wicked.

I am lucky

To love.

Hearts

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged being an artist, Digital art, Learning, New phone, obsolete, old aged nerd!, problem solving, Sketch, TimeLeave a comment

Well not really! When you load perfectly good apps on your phone you expect them to keep working, or at least that you can reload them if you change your device. Unfortunately this phone is too new to support Layout App. I still have it on my PC I think but I don’t really use it, so another learning curve. My head hurts… Now I will try and understand the new app, and try not to be annoyed by in app ads!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time