Cataract check up

Posted on April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cataract, check, clinic, Eyes, glaucoma, Lens, Life, Looking, operation, Surgery, Time, Vision2 Comments

Today I had a check up to see if I was suitable for cataract surgery. I went to a clean, bright, smart clinic. I had to have transport because I was not allowed to drive.

After a short wait and having read the booklet about cataract surgery I went to see the technician to have eye drops put in and then photos taken of my lenses. She also did a check of my eyes looking at an eye chart with and without a small grid that you had to try and focus through. I found I could see the chart better with it, less fuzzy. Finally they checked my blood pressure which was a bit high but the bottom figure was OK as I managed to relax.

A short wait and then I saw the optometrist. This time she checked my retina and also the pressures within my eyes that would indicate glaucoma. Everything was OK. Now I just have to choose when I have the operation as I have other things to deal with before I can get the first eye done.

Wish me luck. X

Witch of the wood

Posted on April 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged character design, Doodle, Hair, Life, Mystery Plays, Nature, punk, Sketching, Time, witch of the woodLeave a comment

I’m involved in the Penkhull Mystery Plays and we had a read through of the whole play yesterday. I just decided to doodle what I think the main baddie in the play could look like. Her hair is a tangle of flowers and weeds and twigs. Sharp faced, but without the beak of a nose and hooked chin of traditional depictions of witches. She’s more punk than ancient. I could imagine piercings and tattoos too.

I’ll never see Cardiff

Posted on April 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cardiff, Gone, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Thinking, Time, Travel, Uwist, VisitLeave a comment

We used to dream of visiting Cardiff

The Welsh capital city

Where you went to Uwist university

But I was getting ill

I couldn’t drive there

And your anxiety held me still

We’d go next summer

Before it was too late

But we ran out of time

That was our fate

Never to see the city

Where you studies science

Now there is no visit

Only cold silence.

Keep forgetting to post

Posted on April 19, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Questioning, Thinking, Time, Tired, WritingLeave a comment

Writing is hard sometimes

Thinking of things to say

When I’m exhausted

Thoughts stray

Are unkempt like my hair

Struggling to make sense

Of my course through life.

I’m writing in a book too

Fighting with prompts

Trying to decide

What to say and do.

Absent

Posted on April 10, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Busy, Flowers, fresh flowers, Garden, Life, Memory, Spring, Time, TulipsLeave a comment

Only one tulip so far this spring. The rains been absent this month and although there are leaves, no flowers are in bud. The one that has flowered is a lovely pink. I will have to take a photo of it.

Has your spring (or autumn) been good so far this year? I feel like I’m missing it with so many things to deal with. Take care all.

Eight years ago

Posted on April 9, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Bottle oven, Cat, Doodle, Facebook memories, Hearts, Life, Pottery, Sketching, Tea set, TimeLeave a comment

Fond memory of a cat doodle I did eight years ago. This was on my Facebook memories today. There are other drawings but I won’t put them on here. I might use them later but I think this is the cutest one. The little bottle oven and tea set are the connection with where I live, the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent.

I have lots of sketchbooks around the house with doodles in. I should find them all and look through them. What will happen to them when I’ve gone I wonder?

Empty seats

Posted on April 8, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bar, Building, Closed, Empty, Friendly, Gone, Poem, Poetry, Sad, seats, shut loss, TimeLeave a comment

A sunny afternoon.

And the seats were out

Waiting for the sun

To come round

But they were empty

No more fun

No one to drink it in.

The bar is closed

Convivial loss

No one to stand and drink

The place is shut

So don’t walk in

To sit and sip

A cool one.

Snowdrops or snowbells?

Posted on April 5, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gallanthus, Gardening, Memory, snowbells, Snowdrops, Species, Time, Trees, Winter2 Comments

I know they are from the Gallanthus group of plants but I think these might be snowbells not snowdrops. They have bigger flowers than usual and more prominent markings. But there are many variations of these lovely little friendly flowers, and they look great spread in carpets under the bare canopy of winter trees. They only have a short flowering period before they go over and that’s the best time to split their clumps of roots “in the green” so that they become less congested and flower more freely.

Light, Esther’s prompt.

Posted on April 3, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Esther's prompt, Light, opposite, regret, Sadness, Thinking, Time, weekly challenge, Writing2 Comments

Esther Chiltons weekly prompt was light. As I’m feeling rather sad it bought out a feeling of regret in me:

Light, a rainbow effect, but black? Darkness, hidden, lonely. Why do I want to sit hidden in the dark as the days sparkle around me? Is this my fate? I need to escape into light, but by the time my sad thoughts allow me it will probably be raining. We have been singing “this little light of mine” at choir recently. I need a glimmer of hope. X

Alone

Posted on April 2, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Birthday, Empty, Gone, Grief, Hubby, Loss, Love, Memories, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, stillness, Time2 Comments

You birthday was today

But there is no voice

No laughter

No sudden shout

Of annoyance or glee.

You were here, then gone

Lost in space

Not forgotten by me

But gone from the world

We always held hands

Grasping our dreams

Let’s go out

Take a trip?

Now I stay still

Remembering but not visiting

Still waiting

For your non return.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time