Air

Posted on April 26, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Air, Blurry photo, Clouds, Earth, Fine Art, Fire, Spirit, Water, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Blurry photo of my painting Air, part of four images including Earth, Water and Fire. I imagined the spirit of Air, rather like the faces of cherubs with puffed out cheeks blowing storms across ancient mariners maps the yellow and orange at the top is the sun being hidden behind clouds. I like the cheeky and mischievous face that stares out of the painting. It’s probably a little anachronistic, almost Victorian in style, but it’s a semi abstract acrylic on canvas. I just wish I’d taken a better photo. It is for sale.

Soaked!

Posted on April 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged April, Cold, Freezing, Hail, Rain, Sandals, Shower, slippers, squelching, Thunder, WeatherLeave a comment

My feet were soaked, my coat got soaked and hail and rain trickled down my neck! The bottom of my trousers acted like a wick and sucked up the water. I was still wearing sandals because I hurt my toes a few weeks ago and the sandals are squelching so I’ve had to get my warm slippers on. It’s not very warm so I’ll get a hot shower.

April showers? Yesterday the next door town had a mini tornado that blew a caravan over and several trees were blown over in the east Midlands. Today we even had a thunderstorm. I only went out to meet a friend, we had a walked up the steep hill to her house and then I was stuck for a while because the hail and rain was so heavy. Water was streaming down the pavements and gutters which is why my feet got so wet.

We are lucky to have rain in this country but a lot of UK farmers have been affected by the wet winter months. Crops have been affected and are not growing like they should. The plants are basically being drowned and many flood warnings have been in force.

Better weather and a high pressure system is expected over the UK in the next few days. Meanwhile I’m going to try and get warm and dry!

Squally shower

Posted on March 27, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged gusty, Life, March winds, Myth, Rain, Reality, springtime, Squall, Time, Weather, Window2 Comments

Wow, it’s just rained heavily. A real squall with gusting winds. The gutters were overwhelmed and water poured down the window. Now the sun’s back out and the dark grey clouds have blown away. I love the sound of raindrops clattering against the glass and the gusts of wind whistling through the gaps in the window frame. It’s never been properly airtight, but I don’t mind and in the dawn light I can hear the blackbird singing on the top of next doors chimney. Music of nature playing around my garden.

It reminds me of the myth or saying about the month of March and March winds… If it is a gentle start to the month it comes in like a lamb and out like a lion, while if it’s windy at the start of the month the opposite, in like a lion out like a lamb tends to be the case.

Breezy

Posted on March 23, 2024 Posted in Uncategorized, MemoriesTagged Breeze, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1886, Flying, Kite, kite festival, Memory, Time, Weather, WindyLeave a comment

What is your favorite type of weather?

Kite flying on a breezy day, enough breeze to lift the silk or nylon covered structure up into the air.

We went to a kite flying festival in Wales years ago. I had made a kite out of bamboo tied together with melamine silver plastic taped to it. I’d painted a Japanese symbol on it, I can’t remember what it was (this is about thirty years ago).

It wasn’t just breezy, it was very windy, and most kite flyers had decided not to bother. But I tied a tail onto my kite and tried to fly it. It wasn’t very happy so we added a plastic carrier bag! Then it flew, horizontally, just above the beach, but it flew. I was so proud!

The next day there was a gentle breeze, I took off the bag and the kite rose high into the air. I have always loved kite flying weather since then.

A sprinkling of snow

Posted on March 10, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dusting, Flour, Food, Icy, Life, Memory, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Snowy, sprinkling, Sugar, Trees, WeatherLeave a comment

A year ago

We had a sprinkling of snow

Like caster sugar

Dusted on cakes

Or a shake of flour

On a rolling pin and board.

Or icing sugar

On tasty mincepies

Just a soupcon or two

Of white, powdery, crystals

Not today

It was just wet

And grey…

March started wet and cold

Posted on March 1, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Hope, Life, Plans, red sky in the morning, Spring, St David's day, Wales, Weather, Wet2 Comments

Ugh! Red sky this morning, wet and cold warning.

It’s March 1st, St David’s day, symbol the daffodil, saints day of Wales. I have a few uninspiring tete a tete narcissi daffodils at the front of the house but they look a bit sad and forlorn.

Today is the first day of Spring here. I hope it bucks it’s ideas up!

It brightened up in the afternoon, but there may be snow, showers then fog later. What fun.

In other news I’m plotting a joint exhibition with other friends later in the year. I’m hoping I might get some respite from the tablets I’ve started taking. You never know. I just want to feel better.

Low pressure

Posted on February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Barometer, changeable, Cold, Low pressure, much rain, Rain, Warm, Weather, Wet, winter weather2 Comments

Low pressure over us, the barometer fell last night from changeable to much rain, and rain it did this morning. There is flooding in the English midlands and snow melt has added to the problem.

I tapped the barometer again this morning and the indicator didn’t move. The weather just hasn’t been good, it’s cold and wet. But the temperature has risen a bit from the freezing conditions we had a few days ago. I hope the barometer goes back up again soon.

Snow due

Posted on February 7, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged City, Driving, Forecast, Ice, Life, Sleet, Snow, vehicles, Weather, weather warning2 Comments

The last lot of snow fell a few weeks ago, now here is a threat of more. The forecast is for wet weather coming up from the south hitting cold air in the north. Wherever it clashes we will get the snow.

There is also the risk of ice, and possibly heavy sleet and high winds. Oh what fun. I’m staying in and snuggling if I can. We live in a city and don’t get things too bad. But even so we can sometimes get gridlocked as there are a lot of bottlenecks in the road system. It once took me three hours to dive home two miles due to abandoned vehicles.

Low sky

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged anemometer, Life, Photography, Pink, Sky, Sunset, Time, Weather, weather StationLeave a comment

Outside our back door this evening. The sky looked pinker than this to my eyes, but I have to go with what the camera shows. Out anemometer on the weather station was spinning round merrily in the gusty wind (it was almost a dark and stormy evening!) it’s not linked in with the station in the house as the batteries are dead! I do like the salmon pink sky. I wish we lived on the sunny side of the hill.

Storm Isha

Posted on January 22, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged disruption, Great Britain, Isha, named storm, Northern Ireland, Storm, storm Isha, UK, Weather2 Comments

90 mile an hour winds, storm surges, trees uprooted. Storm Isha, the eighth named storm this winter, bought disruptive winds and rains across much of the UK yesterday and today. Planes that were going from England to Northern Ireland were diverted to France after being unable to land in Ireland. Only to be refuelled and travelling back to Ireland again. One flight due to take 45 minutes took 9 hours including delays. Sea ferries, trains and cars have been delayed.

A few people have died. Trees have been blown over 48,000 homes lost power in Northern Ireland. Farmers fields continue to be flooded and winter wheat is dying in the sodden landscape.

And yet the British weather intrigues us. We are used to wild and wooly weather, just not this much of it!

Mallaband-Brown

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