Stale egg….

Posted on October 27, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bad eggs, Cooking, egg, Floating, Oil, old eggs food, Poaching, salt, sinking, Vinegar, Water2 Comments

I decided to have a poached egg on toast for tea. I went to get an egg from the fridge. There were two eggs in the rack. One had 2nd October printed on it. The second had 27th October on it.

I realised I knew a tip on how to check if an egg had gone off. Basically I got a glass full of water. I put the older egg in first. It floated, I put the fresher egg in. It sank. That’s exactly what should happen. Fresh eggs sink….

I’m glad I remembered that tip.. In a timely manner! The poached egg on toast was delicious.

Method for poaching

Get a frying or sauce pan.

Add a little oil and heat it.

Carefully add water to the pan , add vinegar to taste.

Bring to a gentle boil. Crack an egg into the water. Once it has solidified to the consistency you like, scoop it out and put it on the toast…

More bread

Posted on October 19, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged air fryer, bakery, Bread, Cooking, Flour, Food, Friend, Ingredients, Life, recipes, Water, WhatsApp, Yeast1 Comment

My friend keeps WhatsApp-ing me photos of the daily bread he makes in his air fryer. I think its charming and he keeps changing his recipes. But he WhatsApp me photos of the bread every day. So my gallery looks like a bakery! I delete the pictures when I remember…. But it gets a bit clogged up sometimes….

I think it would be rude to ask him to stop, but I do wish they would stop piling up…

Baskets

Posted on July 19, 2026July 19, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Friends, Garden, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Memories, small farm, Water, yearly project2 Comments

I’m trying hard to keep my hanging baskets alive. They are on a shady fence which is good, but one in particular is in full sun and is getting rather crispy. Also I bought a few small extra plants but they outgrew their pots so a friend and her son came over to help today to repot them into containers. Some of them were a bit wonky so I tried to straighten them up. That was hard work. Even putting the bin out exhausts me.

Anyway the photo is of one of them. Bought just over a month ago from a small farm and really filled out. I’m using washing up water and some bottles of water to keep them going. Might rain next week… Cropped off the dried out bits.

I do this every year, but this year was a bit much, I will see what happens next year x

Finished castle?

Posted on July 1, 2026 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Beach, Criccieth Castle, Fine Art, Landscape, Painting, Sea, Water, Waves1 Comment

Criccieth Castle, Wales. Looks a bit like a whale. I hope the person who commissioned it will be happy? I had to leave off some buildings and people from the original photo. That has made the hillside a bit more difficult to paint, imagining the undergrowth.

What do you think? I hope they like the restless waves.

Random…

Posted on April 11, 2026April 11, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cupboard, drill, Flood, Hubby, Leak, Life, Loss, random memories, Sadness, Time, WaterLeave a comment

Random memories

Random memories get at me… things only he used to do.. Why is the drill on top of the cupboard out of my reach? Did he know the answer to that university challenge question? I don’t recognise the different types of steam trains and can’t ask.. Long gone memories surface. What was his opinion about the latest political issues? 43 years then gone.. Lost, only in my memory…

He is still in my minds eye, a little corner of my brain grips tight and holds on.. He won’t go without a fight, and I don’t want to argue with him.

He would have been annoyed today, the pump sprang a leak in the airing cupboard and when I came downstairs there was half an inch of water on the floor…. Now I’ve got just one cold water tap and the kettle… But he would have sorted it out….

I miss him…

Moss

Posted on February 7, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Branches, Depth of field, Focus, Life, lime green, Memory, Moss, Rain, Water, Weather, Winter2 Comments

Outside in the cold, I saw this moss on branches. The weather has been so wet this winter that I feel like I will see a fully formed Ark on the top of the local hill!

I love the acid green of the moss. And the reddish purples of the leaves on the ground. I wish the depth of field was less so the background was more blurred, but my mobile phone automatically seems to give the same values for foreground and background. There is probably a way of changing settings? I don’t know how?

Raindrops

Posted on December 17, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Birdsong, Early morning, gutters, Late night, Rain, raindrops, Water, Weather, whoosh, WindowLeave a comment

It was raining this morning at three in the morning, but through the mild mirk of a December night the sound of a blackbird was heard singing.

The rain continued and the raindrops splattered my window, the drips from the gutter splashed down onto me as I opened the front door to get the milk bottles in. Water was running down the road and overflowing the drains.

I didn’t hear the bird but I could hear the cars whooshing through the rain… Being on a main road can be noisy.

Rain

Posted on November 5, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged deep water, deluge, Flash flood, Funny, Legend, Life, Main road, Poem, Poetry, Rain, WaterLeave a comment

It rained very heavily a few days ago.

I wrote this poem in response :

Rain flowed down the hill
Flooded the gutters
A wall of water
In the midst of it
A man on a mobility scooter
Drove it through two feet of water
Flash flood wheel chair hero!

The man on the scooter was videoed, it made the local TV news! Legend! I think it’s on tiktok in Stoke on Trent.

Bubbles

Posted on October 11, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bathing, Bubbles, Description, Foam, Poem, Poetry, Soap, Soft, suds, Washing, WaterLeave a comment

Foam, bubbles, froth

Soap and water

Float on water

Sploshing

Splishing

Splashing

Soft to the skin

Bathing

Washing

Suds for cleaning

Where would we be

Without them?

Singing about the cut (canal).

Posted on October 9, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blank verse, Boats, Canal boats, Canals, Ceramics, Cuts, Life, Middleport pottery, Poem, Poetry, WaterLeave a comment

We sang about the boats and pots

Of horses pulling barges.

Before the cuts were built and dug.

The plates broke on the carts

A third of pottery destroyed

Because of mud and ruts

For a hundred years the canals enjoyed

The busy work of transport

Then motorways and rail roads were built

And ware shifted to “faster” ways.

The cuts were clogged with water weeds

The towpaths overgrown.

Until the leisure cruisers came

And cleaned the weeds away.

Now British waterways they rule

And you can moor your boat

Anglers dip their rods in water

And catch all sorts of course fish.

The canals are better than before

No shopping trolleys in them.

A resource for walkers, boaters, folk,

To enjoy and rest and play.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Water