Still negative

Posted on December 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bugs, Cold, Covid, flu season, Illness, immunity, Life, Negative, Sick, Thinking, Time, Virus, Winter5 Comments

Spending time worrying about whether I have covid means I have not really thought about all the other bugs out there. They can be transmitted differently, for instance by touching surfaces. I think covid is spread more by breathing in droplets.

Anyway, bam! I have got a bad cold or virus, and as many of these haven’t been around as much because people were not interacting or being in close contact with one another. We are all more susceptible to the risks of other diseases now. You might have immunity to one illness, but if you are not in contact with it frequently then it can be worse when you get it again. What fun! Sniffles…..

Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged day length, Earth, Life, Light, seasons, Solstice, Summer, Sun, Sunrise, Sunset, Time, Tipped, WinterLeave a comment

When the sum rose this morning it was on the shortest day of the year. Now the days up here in the Northern Hemisphere will slowly start to lengthen again. At first at a minute or two a day, but gradually a few more minutes around spring time. Then as the Summer solstice approaches the number of minutes slows down. Finally after that the process goes into reverse and the days begin to wane again. So the great cycle of light and dark tumbles along North and South. Only on the equator are day and night lengths balanced out. The cause? Earth is tipped at an angle, so for six months of the year one half of the planet gets more light than the other (which also proves the Earth is a globe).

Happy Solstice everyone!

Covid on the up?

Posted on December 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged corona virus, Covid, Friends, Graph, Illness, increase, Life, Time, uptick, Winter, Years12 Comments

My friend just told me she has covid and a few other friends have had it recently. Then someone else posted this graph on Facebook. There is a definite uptick on the right of the graph. It’s not clear how it will progress and given the lack of publication of the stats on TV anymore its not surprising that people are possibly getting a little complacent about it. Yes most people are vaccinated, but it doesn’t mean you will be totally immune. I just hope that people can get over it quickly. I for one keep buying and wearing masks.

Sunsets missed

Posted on December 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Hill, Life, shadow, Sunset, Thinking, Time, ViewLeave a comment

I live on the wrong side of the hill. On the other side is where the sun sets. If I see the clouds turning pink I jump in the car to try and catch a view of the sunset! I’ve only seen a few in the last few years, I don’t know when they will be happening. I guess I could look at the times that the sun goes down on line, then I could be there and see the beautiful view. I wish I could afford to buy a house over there.

December Fushias

Posted on December 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cold snap, Colour, fushia bushes, Fushias, Garden, Gardening, Portmeirion pottery, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

Fushias in flower outside Portmeirion pottery. In December!

I took this photo today because I was amazed at how many flowers were blooming on the fushia bushes outside our local pottery. The leaves have wilted a little and I’m expecting it to be clobbered by the cold because we, are due freezing weather over the next few days. But its December, this is not normal. Its getting dark earlier every day and we have a chilly northerly wind blowing. It’s not proof of global warming, but it makes you think!

Where are they now?

Posted on December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Butterflies, Cold, disruption, migration, Moths, Nature, over wintering, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Sleep, Summer, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

Butterflies, summer creatures

Hide in crevices

Overwintering

Blood like antifreeze

Or lay their eggs

Somewhere safe

To form a chrysalis

That will emerge next spring

Or flutter south

To warmer places

Migrating to survive

And moths?

Do they do the same

Flitting to darkened spaces

To wait out the cold?

Mild winters fetch them out early

Cold and hungry

Where can they feed

If plants are dormant

Not in flower

No leaves to eat?

A delicate natural balance

Disrupted

Too many

Posted on November 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cache, Email, Friends, Inbox, Life, Mail, Memories, Saved, Time2 Comments

Oh I get fed up, too many emails, I keep deleting them, but sometimes they reappear in my inbox. I have to admit I don’t know how many I actually have. I keep some from friends that I have had for years. I just don’t know if I can delete them, they are my contact with the past… What do you do? How much memory do they take up? Should I delete the lot?

Keeping in touch.

Posted on November 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Family, Friends, Future, keeping in touch, Memory, Now, Past, Relatives, Time2 Comments

I’ve realised how out of touch I have got with some people. It’s not deliberate, but I’m one of these out of sight, out of mind people. I tend to be aware of things in the ‘now’, and the past is gone. It’s helpful because I don’t dwell on bad things from the past, but on the other hand it makes me forget to keep in touch with old friends. Can you know too many people? I don’t think so. But I can’t hold them all in my head! So my intention is to try and at least say hi once a month…. I need to remind myself to do it…..

Date

Posted on November 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, date, Dendrochronology, Drawing, Sketching, Time, Tree, tree ringsLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘date’ I was going to draw an old mechanical calendar (one that you turn round to change the date) but I can’t find it. So then I decided to sketch a log, cut in half, to represent tree rings (dendrochronology) you can count the rings to find out the age of the tree and as the widths of the rings change with the weather you can also work out the years it was growing.

Post industry

Posted on November 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Air, billionaires, Earth, Industrial, Poem, Poetry, Pollution, Post industrial, Time, workers1 Comment

Industrial,

Smoke belched high in the sky

Soot fell on childrens faces.

Clogged lungs

Cotton fell like dirty snow

From grey clouds

Skudding on a raw east wind.

Blast furnaces glowed

Brightening sullen grey clouds

Into false, rosy sunsets

Men walked, doubled over

In the black and dusty mines

Water dripped hot and dirty

Down bent necks

whilst picks and shovels

Hewed at the coal.

Then suddenly

Worlds changed

Smoke and smog was banned

Cholera and typhoid alleviated.

Government and Unions United for once.

Health for all, insuring life.

Workers deserving clean air and water.

Post industrial, jobs went

To other places, other lands

Workers not so lucky

Breathing a centurys old air

Forced to work for a pittance

One people taking the place of another

Supporting our modern, post industrial life

And money travels upwards

Into more billionaires pockets

On post industrial beaches….

Earth is clean for those that can pay.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time