Preparations

Posted on November 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Life, Makers market, Miniatures, Painting, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Studio 21, Time3 Comments

I will be at studio 21 at Spode tomorrow for our annual Open Day. Come and see me painting in the studio or visit the makers market where I will have minature paintings for sale. Then during the day I will try to complete a new painting of a bottle oven (a pottery kiln).

It’s been two years since I’ve been there properly. My fear of Covid, then illness and bereavement have kept me out. But everyone was so nice today. I’ve entered some of my minature paintings for the craft Market. I thought people might use them as Christmas stocking fillers. There’s everything from a tiny giraffe with an abstract background to a small Jupiter with great red storm and a moon passing by. Maybe I will sell a few.

Oh for summer

Posted on November 7, 2022November 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cornwall, happiness, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Summer, Time, Time travelling, WalkingLeave a comment

I want to time travel

Back to Cornwall

Back to happy days

Laughing and crying

With happiness.

Warm sunshine

And late sunsets

Beautiful countryside

Gentle breezes

Walking across fields

Passing cows and horses

Before the sadness.

My smoke alarm went off

Posted on November 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Battery, disembodied, Life, no smoke without fire?, smoke alarm, Spider, Time, voice6 Comments

A loud beeping then ‘attention fire’ ‘attention fire’!

First I thought the fridge alarm was going off until the voice started. Then I remembered we had replaced our old smoke alarm because it had started to beep every five minutes even when we changed the battery.

So where was the fire? No sign, not a sniff or sight of smoke. No hot spots, I’d turned off the heater, the lights were mostly out. The kitchen door was shut and I’d only had the kettle on for a cup of decaff coffee.

What could have set it off? I wonder if a spider has moved in? I stayed awake till 7am waiting for it to go off again. No smoke without fire? So tired! Be alarmed, be very alarmed!

Stats crash

Posted on November 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Boring, Ideas, Life, Opinion, Sharing, Stats, Thinking, Time, WordPress14 Comments

Oh dear! What have I done? I haven’t posted much recently, and since the clocks went back I have got less views. Maybe I’m boring people. It’s hard not to be repetitive and I’ve also expressed some political views that might have put people off or annoyed them. But I can’t help being honest about my opinions. I don’t think I’m extreme in any way, just concerned about what is happening in the world with democracy and climate change. Tell me if there is anything I need to do to change? The Internet is an echo chamber, sometimes you only hear what you want to. I don’t think I can change that much?

Hungry

Posted on October 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged British Summer time ends, change of time, Childhood, hour, Hungry, jet lag, Life, TimeLeave a comment

Hungry an hour earlier, because the clocks went back. It’s 4pm but it feels like 5pm. My stomach remembers the ‘real’ time. Eventually things will settle down, but then in four months time when the clocks ‘spring’ forward, I will be hungry an hour later! I’ve never suffered from jet lag, but it must be ten times worse. I remember as a child that when the clocks changed in the summer I could not sleep, because it was still sunny! I used to sit on the windowledge and read my book behind the curtains until the sun set.

Clocks going back

Posted on October 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, clock change, Dark, fall back, Life, Sad, Solstice, Time, WinterLeave a comment

This morning it was dark at seven am. Tomorrow night our clocks go back an hour in the UK. On Sunday morning it will be getting light an hour earlier and we will get an extra hour in bed. Fine, but then we lose that hour in the evening, so it will be going dark at five pm.

I Hate that. I find my spark going out in the winter. I feel like a wraith wandering through the gloom. I don’t think I have SAD, but I am Sad. I wait till the sun starts to go down later every day, as the winter Solstice passes, and the returning Sun starts to cheer me up again.

Kittens

Posted on October 28, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cats, Facebook, Kittens, Memory, Photo, Time, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Facebook memory, cheered me up. Three of the black and white kittens our female cat had. She was a rescue cat, and her previous owner mentioned she might be pregnant. I think they must be over five years old now, they all went to good homes. I miss them, but if we had kept them there would have been six cats in the house, which was too many for us. But as far as I know they are all safe and happy. X

Doodlicious

Posted on October 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, Broccoli, Design, Doodling, Drawing, Life, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Some strange creature or plant. A combination of broccoli and alveoli perhaps? A few added leaves, contours, scales. Zig zaging power lines. Light and shade, using different thickness of pen lines. Giving depth in places. You don’t have to stick to one line, you can vary it. Experience and experiment. Trying to learn.

Partial Eclipse

Posted on October 24, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 25th October 2021, blinding, Eclipse, Europe, Leaves, Moon, partial eclipse, Sunlight, TimeLeave a comment

There is a partial eclipse across Europe tomorrow. 25.10.2022. Don’t look up at the sun unless you have proper eclipse glasses. It can burn your retinas and blind you because of ultra violet radiation. But one thing you can do is look at the ground, either in a puddle and yo may see a reflection, or if you stand under a tree that’s in leaf you may see images projected on the ground that look like crescent moons. These are images of the sun as the moon partly glides across it. The reason for the images? The leave are acting like a pinhole camera.

Gallery problems

Posted on October 24, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized, Fine ArtTagged Art, Fine Art, Gallery, Irritating, lost images, Memory, Optimised, Phone, Problems, Time, YearsLeave a comment

My phone is doing strange things, especially when I’ve tried to upload images to my Facebook page today. I decided to optimise some of my photos because my phone memory is too full. Usually the images that I have shrunk stay on the phone and the others are deleted. But thus time everything doubled up. I tried deleting the old ones, but I had to restart the phone and my images seemed to get mixed up. I tried finding them and although I did the gallery kept reverting to the older ones. I guess I need to buy a new memory card? I don’t know if I can sort it out otherwise.

Mallaband-Brown

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