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!

Five hours!

Posted on March 31, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Cost, Email, frustration, hours, Mobile, Money, Phone, Settings, TimeLeave a comment

My brain hurts! It’s taken over 5 hours and I’ve got a lot of my apps working on this new phone but I can’t get my emails back. It’s driving me bonkers (mad). I will keep trying, or go back to the phone shop on Monday. Luckily I’ve got it to work on my old PC.

This phone has double the memory of the old one and a better camera, but it cost only 20% of the price of my old one.

Now I need to keep concentrating on things and stop moaning about it!

My phone died!

Posted on March 31, 2023March 31, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Battery, Blog, burnt, frustration, Mobile, password, Phone, phone died, Settings, TimeLeave a comment

Every single app has disappeared! I’ve got the mammoth task of uploading everything I use. But I’m not used to this phone. I’m all over the place. I keep closing the screen instead of hitting the space bar. My PC needs syncing to everything on the phone. Goodness knows how I’m doing this. I have the landlines phone here as well. The chap in the shop said he’d sorted my email out, but it’s not linking to the server.

Mind you I feel sorry for him! As he tried to download all my contacts and images the phone superheated and burnt him! I’m very lucky to have anything to transfer! The battery was down to 17% when he got the phone and 1% when he finished!

So if there is a hiatus in my posts, please forgive me. X

Old TV

Posted on March 28, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged children's TV, Fun, Memory, Past, Poem, Poetry, Programme, Remembering, Rhyme, theme music, TimeLeave a comment

When I was young we used to see

Children’s programmes on tv

Chigley, Trumpton, Camberwick Green

Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb were seen.

Then came the Herbs and a dog called Dill.

Parsley the Lion, I remember him still….

The theme music that we would sing

The Clangers, and Magpie, fun they’d bring

Puppet shows galore there were on TV

Like Stingray and Thunderbirds you’d see.

With Bill and Ben

Wild flowerpot men!

So much to remember from years ago

When I was a child…Memory fast not slow!

I wish I could…

Posted on March 26, 2023March 27, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chess, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1887, Knowledge, Learning, protégés, Skills, Time4 Comments

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

Play chess better. I don’t understand how people can work out several moves ahead. I only know the basics, I learnt from playing against my father as a child. But I don’t know how to castle and I rarely play. I don’t know where our chess set and board are.

When I watched a film about chess players in the 1970’s I was amazed and impressed by them. But they were protégés and must have had some sort of mathematical minds so that they understood the game in great depth. Then of course computers were introduced which started to beat humans. So I would like the ability to beat a computer like Deep Blue. An ambition I’m sure I will never have!

Questions?

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Careful, data protection, Ideas, Life, Memory, password, prompts, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

I’ve started doing the daily prompts on here but I can’t help wondering about giving away information. I’m not the most interesting person in the world, and I don’t want to share stuff that could allow me to be scammed. So I don’t share per names, or relatives names. If anyone did get into my pages they would find I have a separate password for everything. Capital letters, numbers, symbols, long words. So password protected is real in my case.

I do talk about my past life sometimes, but it will be vague, and I try not to identify with definite dates.

The prompts are questions, which I’m not sure I like to answer, and yet they make me think of things that I would not necessarily write about otherwise.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time