I want cold!

Posted on July 16, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged celcius, Chill, Climate, Cold, Earth, Heat, heatwave, Life, Rain, Snow, Tired, Weather, wildfires, Winter3 Comments

Winter, snow, rain

Memory of snow

Sitting here, I wish for a chill in the air. Yesterday was St Swithens day. They say if it rains during the day it will rain for another 40 days and nights… No chance of that…

The UK is suffering it’s 3rd heatwave in a couple of months and I’ve not been able to do anything. Temperatures have been over 35 degrees Celcius in some places. The world is definitely heating and water reservoirs are depleted.

Meanwhile we have politicians both here (conservatives and reform) and in the USA who want us to “drill baby drill”, seeing only short term gain and a lack of understanding of climate science. Now smoke from wildfires in Canada drifts on the wind southwards and the USA have been complaining!

Maybe hell will be on Earth after all, but the majority of the population do not deserve to suffer it.

Fan time

Posted on July 10, 2026July 10, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Electricity, exhaustion, Fan, heatwave, Hot, Life, Poem, Poetry, Tired, WeatherLeave a comment

Third heatwave in a few weeks

I’m exhausted

Too hot

Found a small fan.

But I wait for the room

To get hot

Before I switch it on.

Then bliss as cool air

Sweeps over me

But don’t want to use

Too much electricity…

An Orb

Posted on March 4, 2026 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ark, Blue sky, Boat, Bright light, Life, orb, Poem, Poetry, Star, Sun, Sunshine, Weather1 Comment

An orb shone in the sky today.

For once it wasn’t a cold grey day

I think it was a star or nova

As in the blue it seemed to hover.

It couldn’t be real,

It was surreal.

Someone said, now build a boat

The rain will come again…

No doubt!

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?

Late or early?

Posted on January 22, 2026January 23, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bright green, early, Late, Life, lime coloured, Moss, Photo, Picture, Plants, WeatherLeave a comment

Moss growing on twigs, is it surviving from last year, or newly refreshed? I loved it’s bright lime green colour against the grey world. Not much else to say about this photo. Low pressure weather system view.

Snow joke

Posted on January 5, 2026January 5, 2026 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Apple tree, below normal temperature, Cat, Cold, Fence, Freezing, Neighbour, Snow, Weather, Winter3 Comments

The snow stuck. The apple tree looks like it’s been in a winter storm. It’s bent over because the neighbours pushed it over to put a fence in. It’s actually fruiting more because the branches are horizontal now, I might clip out some of the more central branches to give it a bit of air.

The weather forecast is more snow later. The cats are going out in it although it’s been about 4 to 10 degrees Celcius lower than normal.

Snow!

Posted on January 4, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cars, Cold, Freezing, January, Life, Memory, Quiet, reversing, Snow, Steep, Traffic, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

Snow is falling. The road is covered by it and since we live on a steep hill cars are coming up but doing three point turns because of it. I’ve seen at least 5 reversing lights through the front door window so far tonight. I think it was gritted during the initial snow fall, but they haven’t come back and it’s 11.45pm now.

It’s worrying because this is the main route ambulances take up to the hospital. We don’t get a lot of snow in the winter so I thought it was worth taking a photo. I hope it clears up soon. Another car just turned up the street then turned round and one crept down the hill very slowly. We just aren’t used to snow in this country.

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.

Missing fine weather

Posted on December 9, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blue, breezes, Gales, Life, Rain, Sky, Spring, Storms, Summer, Weather, White, Wind, WinterLeave a comment

A few months after our driest summer in years we are constantly getting wet weather gales and storms. The rain gets through holes and doen chimneys and overflowing guttering.

I want brilliant white clouds floating in azure blue skies. Sunlight on my head and shoulders. Soft breezes, not howling gales. Scents and smells that lift the spirits, not mould and fungus.

So, the spring will come again. I hope to enjoy the rest of winter and then greet spring with open arms.

Autumn dawn

Posted on November 3, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bad weather, Dawn, Flash flood, Flooding, Life, microburst, Rain, Red sky, Weather, Wet1 Comment

Reddish sky in the morning

Shepherds take warning….

And they should! A few days ago we had a red dawn, this photo was taken as it faded.

The sky soon clouded over and later we had a deluge! Water flowed down the hill so fast and deep that it overwhelmed the drains and poured out of gutters onto the pavements. At the back of my house it came down the window in a sheet of rain and the water snuck into the wall and plaster around the window frame. I’ve never seen anything like it.

There was a flash flood in the centre of town with rain water up to people’s car headlights. Shops that were safe at the front had brown water knee high in their store rooms….

It might have been a microburst but it was very stormy. The winds were blowing trees about. It was more than the usual thunderstorm. Thankfully it blew over after about twenty minutes.

Climate change is here. I don’t know how places like Jamaica and Cuba and Haiti coped with last week’s hurricane. I feel so worried for them.

Mallaband-Brown

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