Thunder and lightening.

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Lightening, Rain, Storm, Summer lightening, Thunder, Water, WeatherLeave a comment

Having a massive thunderstorm. The rain was drumming on the kitchen roof and my hubby went outside to turn off the electric power outside.

The storm blew over about ten minutes ago but now it sounds like it’s coming back. You can work out the distance it is away from you by watching when the flash happens and then counting the seconds until the thunder rolls again. Every second is half a mile. So if you see the flash and count six seconds. Then the storm is three miles away. Anyway its come back again. About two miles away. The rain gives life I suppose, but everything is very wet now! The thunder I rattling the windows.. I was nodding off but the noise woke me up!

Today’s challenge, water or washing

Posted on June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Charity, Drawing, Drawing challenge, Drinking water, Ideas, Sketching, Tap, Thinking, WaterLeave a comment

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It was another drawing challenge with Stoke Urban Sketchers, but I think it means more than that…. I am privileged to live in a country where we have sufficient rain, most of the time, to fill our needs. Last year we decided to have an outside tap fitted. It means that if there is drought we can use watering cans and a hose to water the garden. Ideally we need to fit a waterbutt to become more self sufficient. Drawing a tap is significant, a basic I sometimes take for granted.

The need for fresh water is a desperate problem across a lot of the world. There are charities you can donate to including Wateraid which is trying to bring fresh water to some of the poorest countries in the world.

So I’m just suggesting making a small donation. Each tiny drop of water from many people can turn into a torrent if enough of us give. If you can wash your hands it aids the health of people, the ability to grow crops and reduces famine and disease.

I want to visit somewhere nice.

Posted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baby birds, Birds, Ducklings, Life, Nature, Random, Thought, Walk, WaterLeave a comment

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A few months ago we were regularly going out for walks. Now I stay in as much as I can. My health problems mean that I have to be very careful.

As people have stopped visiting places there have been less disturbances for nature. Apparently there have been less casualties of baby birds like ducklings. Boats are not travelling up and down rivers and washing out birds nests. There may be more Grebes and Moorhens this year than for the recent past.

I don’t begrudge my walk if it means nature gets its turn!

Flowers

Posted on May 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Environment, Flowers, Gardening, Geology, Life, Photos, Plants, Random, Spring, WaterLeave a comment

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A few flowers from the garden today. The flowers are starting to develop, the big summer plants are a bit swamped with ivy and scrubby bushes and so we have cut back branches and peeled ivy off trees a bit today. Only what you can do with a pair of secateurs and a small pruning saw.

We need to lay some pathways, and where a spring has erupted in the garden we are going to put a few pebbles to simulate a stream flowing down under the hedge. We live on a hill which is a very old Volcanic plug. The water percolates out further up the hill and we think because that was built on a few years ago it might have got diverted down towards our house. I don’t know….

Time for a cool glass

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cold drink, Digital drawing, Ice, Life, Random, Safe distance, Shopping, Thought, WaterLeave a comment

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Thirsty, I really fancy a cool glass of juice. But I don’t have any in. So a glass of cold water with some ice will have to suffice.

I had to do some shopping today. I was pushing a trolley and people kept scooting past me. Two meter distance? it seemed that people were not that bothered! I get in and out as quickly as I can. There is the problem of using touch screens, I walk round with gloves and a face mask, but have to take the gloves off to put my pin in! I could try ordering on line, but apparently there is a three week wait for slots!

Water

Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Glimmer, Micro poem, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Ripples, Sparkle, WaterLeave a comment

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Water ripples

Glossed like oil

Shimmer and flow

Slipping over rocks

Running along

Till it pools and swirls

Sunlight sparkles and glimmers

Rushing and then easing

Water is life

Water is precious.

Arching branches

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Caged, Micro poem, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Tangled, Trapped, Trees, WaterLeave a comment

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Arching branches across the water

Filtering sunlight

Reflecting green and brown and grey.

Sunlight shimmers off the surface,

Cutting through you view,

Scattering rays

Branches fathomed in deep waters.

Silenced birds

Hidden tangles.

Trees trapped and caged,

Then all at once.

Release.

Solo

Posted on March 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Life, People, Refugees, Single, Solo, Thinking, Virus, Water, World4 Comments

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I think about the people who are on their own at the moment. There are a lot of them out there, either divorced or widowed, or never met anyone they want to share their lives with. My hubby and I might get on each others nerves at the moment, but at least we can talk to each other. Self isolating for us means looking after one another.

Being solo must be so much harder. Humans are social animals. If people don’t have the Internet, or friends to phone things must be so much more difficult.

Maybe in a few weeks all this will be over. But will the population be decimated. And what about countries where people cannot isolate, places where refugees are gathered together without proper sanitation or clean water supplies. The world is a huge place, maybe going through huge change. If we don’t sort ourselves out, become kinder, what will happen?

Stay safe xxx

Canada Geese

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Blue, Calm, Geese, Goose, Lake, Random, Reminiscing, Small lake, Water, Westport lake2 Comments

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On the water, small lake at Westport.

I’m glad I went for this walk a couple of weeks ago. Blue sky reflected in the water, one goose partly hidden behind a post. The water was gently rippled by a cold breeze. The geese were preening themselves.

It’s a random image, but it feels calm.

I will try and find some more images of the world, just to remind me……

Flooding

Posted on February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climate, Danger, Environment, Flooding, News, Sad, Storm Dennis, Water, Weather, WetLeave a comment

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This is a local lake, but I’m using it to illustrate what has been happening this weekend as storm Dennis rages over the UK. Flooding in South Wales, Worcestershire, Yorkshire, Scotland and many other of the shires (counties). Cities, towns and countryside have all been affected. The water that fell from storm Ciara last weekend has saturated the ground and made it difficult for the water to drain. The weather has battered the mainland of Europe too.

Watching it all happen on the TV, I know its a rather small problem compared with what’s been happening in Australia with its wild fires. In East Africa where billions of locusts are affecting many countries. In South America where people are burning rain forests, in so many places on the earth where seven billion of us are causing untold damage?

The questions come, but are not always answered. I don’t know what to think. But I might have to stop writing about it. I’m depressing myself and probably everyone else….

Mallaband-Brown

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