Giraffe

Posted on December 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Blogging, Earth, Endangered, Environment, Extinction, Giraffes, Life, Science, Time, WorldLeave a comment

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Giraffes are close to extinction. People are shooting them! How selfish can you be? Elephants, Lions, Snow Leopards, Cheetahs, Rhino’s, White Rhino’s, Tigers and Gorilla’s and Orangutans, and monkeys and marsupials. So many animals that might not exist in a few years. Then there’s all the small mammals, fish, insects, cold blooded snakes and lizards, birds, amphibians. Not to mention Trees, plants and everything else you can think of!

You know who is driving this mass extinction, US! Humans, people, man, woman everyone.

We need to grab back our world and save it, now, before it’s too late and it’s gone….

Ginger cat

Posted on December 8, 2019December 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cat bauble, Coincidence, Ginger Tom, Life, Painting, TimeLeave a comment

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I don’t paint ginger cats very often, but I painted this on a bauble last week on a whim. Then the next day I was talking to a friend and she showed me a photo of her relatives cat. He’s a ginger Tom!

Yes coincidence, but it was bizzare. Its almost time was going backwards, or I’m predicting something that hasn’t happened yet. I know there is an arrow of time, a broken pot doesn’t leap up off the floor and mend itself. It was just strange. Like seeing an exploded star coalescing back into a star, then melting into a disc of dust.

The world is a wonderful, amazing place. Things happen without us understanding.

Anyway I’m glad the cat bauble went to a good home.

Downward stats

Posted on December 5, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Busy, Humour, Life, Poem, Poetry, Stats, Time, WordPress5 Comments

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My stats are plummeting,

I’ve sunk so low,

Life just got busy

My words don’t flow.

My stats have shrunk

My work rate slowed,

I have no time,

To carry this load.

I have to paint,

To carry and fetch,

Real life impinges

I feel a wretch.

Perhaps one say soon

I will catch up and say.

Today I have time,

To rest, write and play.

Just tired

Posted on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Life, Musing, Need rest, Sleep, Thinking, Time, Tired, WorldLeave a comment

It’s been a busy few days with some ups and downs, on the whole things are OK, but things feel a bit flat. Like these leaves, just squashed by footsteps.

I was thinking about my worries and concerns earlier, but now I’ve thought a bit I realise I’m beating myself up before anything has actually happened. I guess it’s because I’m tired. I’ve set myself a lot of things to do, I’m fed up with sitting back and resting, I need to occupy my mind, but I’m not young anymore….. Well this is cheerful!

Talking to the world, is it listening?

Yesterday was a nothing day

Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Flow, Painting, Rest, Thinking, Time4 Comments

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Like an empty room, not needing tidying. A day that passed quickly, where I let time flow.

Why? I was painting, finishing, working, trying to complete art. Time passed in an empty way, flowed from the top of a waterfall to the base, in mid air, then crashing into the reality of getting something done, finished.

But then I went and did choir practice after I’d painted, so no time to come here. The day was asking fast then… After dark, but after choir, shopping, after shopping, cooking and eating.

The day flew past, then a gentle sleep….

I looked up and it was after midnight. The only things posted here were the day before. My days published statistic was about 157 days continuous publishing. I think it will be back to zero…. Ho hum…. But a day off the computer, a real bonus…

Waiting

Posted on November 7, 2019November 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Digital art, Life, Memory, Thinking, Thought, Time, Universe, World, WorryingLeave a comment

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Does time splinter into different universes? While I sit here waiting for my hubby, who insisted he wanted to walk home in the rain after I dropped him off a couple of hours ago for an appointment, I wonder, where has he got to? Is he OK. Which way is he walking home. Might he get lost? He has problems following directions. But if he knows the way (and he walked back last week) then he should be OK.

But he mooches, he likes looking at things, he doesn’t stride out anymore. He’s not young. I want to go and look for him but the traffic outside is at a standstill. So I’m sitting waiting, worrying, fretting, he’s a grown man. I know he will be OK.. I guess. But time fractures, things happen….

Ten minutes later.. He’s back!

Consequences

Posted on November 5, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Confused, Helping, Life, Logistics, Taxi, Time, Travel2 Comments

I like helping people. But that can cause problems. I’ve offered to give a friend a lift tonight, but I also give someone else a regular lift. The logistics are giving a lift, doing something at the venue, then picking the other person up and taking her to the venue. Then giving both a lift home…. Phew!

As my hubby says, sometimes I’m too helpful! I hope it all works out OK….

Has anyone else been in a similar dilemma?

Reindeer gets ready to fly….

Posted on November 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Christmas, Creative writing, Fun, Humour, Reindeer, Short story, Time4 Comments

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Norman is hoping to be a stand in Reindeer at Christmas. He’s wants to be an understudy for Santa’s team.

He says that he’s waited five hundred years for the chance and his nose has turned white with age. He’s wearing his favourite stripey woolley jumper and has borrowed a set of Santa’s braces to keep his trousers up. He feels the cold at the North Pole because of his age.

Norman almost went out in 1960 when Dasher had a pulled hamstring from dashing and crashing about, but he missed out when a reindeer called Snowy took Dashers’ place.

Norman says his sense of direction can let him down. He once flew to the South Pole by mistake but did make friends with the King Penguins down there. He now takes a blow up globe and a compass with him so that he can find his way around the world.

Norman has a month to prove himself so he can go on this year’s Christmas run.

Clocks, going back tomorrow night.

Posted on October 26, 2019October 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged British summer time, Clock, Clocks go back, Daylight saving, Depressing, Sunset, Time7 Comments

I live in the UK and the clocks are due to go back at two am tomorrow night, that means :

Advantage… Extra hour in bed

Disadvantage….. The sun sets an hour earlier. The winter blues set in. I hate it when the sun sets before 5pm. It takes ages for it to set later than that in the winter. It’s so depressing. Why? Because the Earth is tipped by about 23? degrees. That means in the winter the sun rises further south east, curves in an arc further south than in summer and sets further south west. The hours it is visible in the sky are less. (in the summer around here the sun can set about 11pm and rise about 3am!).

Cold and dark, shivering, chilly. Even now you can feel the year dwindling.

And… WORDPRESS changes from one day to the next at midnight. Not 1am as it does in the summer. That means I have an hour less time in the evening to post before the clock ticks into the next day….

Drat…

Old painting, maiden castle

Posted on September 19, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on board, Art, Dancing figure, Dorset, England, Figure in landscape, Landscape, Maiden castle, Painting, Time, UKLeave a comment

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Painted several years ago, my painting of Maiden Castle Hill Fort imagined a woman dancing in the landscape, and also her bones as if they were found in the land.

The idea was inspired by visiting Maiden Castle in the 1990s,thinking about it being a hill Fort and part of the Celtic world.

It is located in Dorset near Dorchester. If I remember correctly it is reached by a small road, then you walk up through the ditches and mounds that lead up to the top of the hill Fort.

I think I got the idea from watching archaeology programmes on TV. I imagined the woman being aware of the changing seasons and how time passes. The little skull below her is a rabbit skull we found on a walk.

It’s a bit weird, but I wanted to include a figure in the dramatic landscape.

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