I see a dragon

Posted on July 20, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Colours, Hill, Life, Memory, Pareidolia, Red, shadow, Sunny, Sunset, Time, topLeave a comment

That old Pareidolia kicking in again.

The dragons head upper left, then a thin neck and body, looking a bit like a viking boat. Finally a great sail of a wing catching the glow from the setting sun.

This was last Monday and it lingered on my phone until I found it today.

I don’t see sunsets very often because I’m on the wrong side of the hill. This was at the top of our hill and there are still buildings and trees in the way and as the sun drifts northwest as it sets in the summer there is more vegetation in the way.

Creepy cave

Posted on July 4, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fine Art, Hard work, Life, Painting, Parkinsons disease, Scenery, Set design, TimeLeave a comment

How do you know it’s creepy? It’s written on it…

Mystery Play set. In the past I would paint 2 or 3 8x8ft panels for the Mystery Plays. The last time was 5 years ago just before Covid struck. Then a year ago I was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease. Now it’s taken me all my time to do this and a cottage scene on the back of it. Luckily we have old bits of scenery to fill the gaps. I wish I could do more….

I admit doomscrolling

Posted on June 22, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1977, Distraction, doomscrolling, dopamine, Life, Memories, Poem, Poetry, Time, View, Words2 Comments

How do you waste the most time every day?

Too much stuff to see

Glance, read, what was that?

View, like, heart,

Glance, worry, comment.

Distracting dopamine

Images, words, notes,

Got to stop, put it down

Doomscrolling

Not a good way of looking

At the world…

Faces

Posted on June 20, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Design, Fine Art, incollage, Life, Pattern, Photodirector, Texture, TimeLeave a comment

Playing with colours and textures. Who needs AI when you can play with things yourself? This time I started with an acrylic on canvas, then I used photodirector and incollage apps to play with the images. I’m getting some interesting effects.

Clouds

Posted on June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Greeks, History, Patterns, polyhedron, Shapes, tangent, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

Seen last week. A mackerel sky? Or like waves on a beach or ripples in sand. One thing mimics another. There are only a few shapes in the world, so there is repetition. The Greeks had shapes that nested inside each other called platonic solids.

Wikipedia says:

The ancient Greeks studied the Platonic solids extensively. Some sources (such as Proclus) credit Pythagoras with their discovery. Other evidence suggests that he may have only been familiar with the tetrahedron, cube, and dodecahedron and that the discovery of the octahedron and icosahedron belong to Theaetetus, a contemporary of Plato. In any case, Theaetetus gave a mathematical description of all five and may have been responsible for the first known proof that no other convex regular polyhedra exist.

That went off on a bit of a tangent!

Dentists appointment…

Posted on June 17, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Appointment, consultation, Dentist, Hot, Life, lift, Stairs, Time, Tired, Traffic, traffic jamLeave a comment

Well that was a waste of time!

I set out early and spent half an hour in a very hot car travelling about 1.5 miles. I had to walk quite a way due to no spare parking spaces.

I got in to the dentists and reported to reception, ‘your waiting area is upstairs’. Oh! About 20 steep steps, one handrail. If I got up I would struggle to get down. Parkinsons does not make things easy.

So I explained it was not possible. I didn’t want to fall. I asked if I could go in a downstairs consulting room. They tried their best and my dentist tried hard to see if they could fit me in later. But they didn’t ask me! In the end I stopped them. ‘why don’t you let me come back another day?’ they were relieved, I was relieved. Going back in a couple of weeks. The trip home? Another traffic jam. I’m home and hot and bothered with no treatment. I need a rest!

Eating too many

Posted on June 13, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cold, Food, Heat, Ice cream, puthery, Rain, Sugar, Summer, Thunderstorms, Time, Too manyLeave a comment

It’s been just too hot and humid. I’m tired out so I’ve eaten far too many ice creams over the past two or three weeks. Even when it rains it stays warm and it’s very humid too. I don’t know when it will let up. I keep sleeping in my chair and I can’t sleep in bed because I either feel cold or hot. Tomorrow it might be thundering. (us brits don’t understand humidity, we call it puthery round here)…..

Happy times

Posted on June 13, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Birthday, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1969, Flowers, Hanging basket, Happy, Life, Memories, Sister, Time2 Comments

Describe one of your favorite moments.

One of my favourite moments is collecting my hanging baskets from a local nursery. Today (yesterday now) I did that. It was my birthday treat. I ordered 6 this year instead of 8 so I bought some extra plants for the walls and ground. I was really pleased with them. Luckily my sister was over for a visit so she helped me hang them. And that was a favourite moment.

Watching

Posted on June 9, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged America, Life, Poem, Poetry, Questioning, Sadness, stay away, Thinking, Time, Visit, Why?Leave a comment

The world watches

ICE tendrils grip my heart

I could never visit this place

Antipathy to dictatorship

Not allowed now.

Colour matters

And causes fear and loathing.

Even the first settlers are abused.

Arrived before Europeans

And yet told to leave?

How many generations

Before you are allowed to stay?

All Glory to the Presiclown…?

No way.

Garden maintenance

Posted on June 6, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Back yard, compost, Friends, Garden, Gardening, infirmity, Life, Memory, pots, Relief, TimeLeave a comment

Wish I’d taken a “before” photo. In the past my back yard would have already been a riot of colour. But age and infirmity have made it difficult to get out there and garden.

But my kind friends Lin and Twiggy came round and gave me a couple of hours of their time. Weeds removed, pots emptied ivy cut back, apple tree tied onto the fence. It’s still in need of sorting but it’s getting there!

Might be done in a couple of weeks all being well. Me? I’m knackered!

Mallaband-Brown

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