Seasons

Posted on July 10, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Esther Chilton prompt, seasons, Spring, Summer, Weather, Winter, WritingLeave a comment

A writing prompt from Esther Chilton.

My favourite season is Spring. The anticipation of warm weather to come. Flowers and buds emerging after a bleak winter, and birds, bees and animals taking advantage of the newly green fields.

But to be honest this year the, spring seems to have started, but winter is still here in July. Low temperatures, low pressure and 80% of July’s rainfall in just 10 days in the UK has made for a dismal start to the summer. The jet stream is south of us scooping down cold and wet air from the Arctic.

Meanwhile Southern Europe is baking in record breaking heat with numerous deaths.

Hopefully it will turn into a mild autumn. Unless the weather morphs into a more wintery scene…..

End of the rainbow

Posted on July 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, dark sky, Life, Memory, Rain, Rainbow, Sketching, Sunlight, Time, Water, Weather4 Comments

I just read a post on Facebook about a rainbow and it bought back memories from the 1980s.

I was outside on a sunny day when dark clouds piled up as a shower passed by. I noticed a rainbow forming and unbelievably the end came down just up the street from where I was, about fifty yards away. I walked forward and it moved away. I tried jogging, but it kept the same distance away, then gradually faded as the sunlight was blocked by clouds behind me. I really think this is a real memory, not imagined…

Hanging baskets need water

Posted on June 23, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Hanging baskets, Heat, Poem, Poetry, Rain, sunnier, switched over, Weather, WiltingLeave a comment

The weather is hot

Plants wilt in summer sun

Someone turned a switch

Never ending rain… Ended

Next year I shall buy

Hanging baskets earlier

They seem to have changed

The weather to sunnier!

Hot

Posted on June 23, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged celcius, Dangerous, Fahrenheit, Heat, heat wave, Summer, Time, warning, WeatherLeave a comment

The weather is set to be hot for the next few days, 30°C or 86°F. And the temperature will stay hot at night.

To some countries that is not bad, but here in the UK it’s unusual. We generally have humid weather, so it feels hotter than a dry atmosphere would..

We have a yellow warning covering most of England to say that elderly people or those with lots of co-morbidities should be careful. The weather is due to break down mid week and we can expect thunderstorms.

British barbecue

Posted on June 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged barbecue, burger, drizzle, grill, hot dog, Humour, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Smoke, Summer, WeatherLeave a comment

A queue in the rain

For a British barbecue

Waterfall effect is a pain

Smoke and drizzle falling

Barometer says thunder

Must be summer

No chance to simmer

In the sun’s rays

And charcoal briquettes?

Won’t light in the deluge…

Soggy burgers and hotdogs?

Make the most of it..

Next week snow, or fog!

Raining again

Posted on May 28, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, CGI, Creepy, Design, Downpour, Life, Odd, Rain, Reality, Sci fi, Sound, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

The rain came down in a torrent this evening, it was drumming on the roof so hard it drowned out the radio in the kitchen. I was just about to go out and I stood and waited for it to blow over.

I had watched a short video on my phone earlier. It was supposed to show a cloud burst over a desert, but it looked wrong, something like a waterfall but with waves and eddys and tiers a bit like a chandelier. People’s reactions were incredulous.

I then saw the caption at the bottom “generated with AI”. The rain I experienced was real, not AI. I don’t mind that people are creating images, I do it a lot myself, and it’s good watching a film where someone has used CGI to create spaceships, or add landscapes, or alter how people look. But AI seems alien, creepy, like it knows the rules but does not know how to follow them? It sometimes adds extra fingers or distorts faces.

In the end I prefer reality.

Feels like autumn!

Posted on May 24, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Arctic, Atlantic, Autumn, Cold, Film, Gulf stream, Life, Spring, Summer, the day after tomorrow, Weather, WetLeave a comment

Some leaves are falling despite copious rain. It’s mid may up here in the northern hemisphere, but spring and summer feel far away. What is happening ? Is the climate changing? Maybe it’s a slow motion version of the film the day after tomorrow. Some talk of the Gulf stream current dwindling has been mooted over the last few years. The stream pulls up warm water from the Atlantic up the west coast of Wales and Scotland then on up to the Arctic. This floats above cold water travelling underneath it in the opposite direction. But humans seem to have the ability to mess things up. I have no proof of this. I’m merely speculating. But the weather is cold and grey. I think I’ll take a vitamin D tablet.

I like it

Posted on May 20, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Climate change, Cold, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1944, Heat, Life, Summer, Thinking, Time, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

How do you feel about cold weather?

I like cold weather as long as I can get warm when I need to. I like cold, clear, frosty days. Days when trees look like white sculptures, where hoar frosts build crystals of ice on leaves and twigs. Where spiders webs festoon hedges.

I don’t like warm wet winters, where you go out and your feet feel wet all day. Where the rain blows into your coat hood and trickles down your neck. Cats drive past and spray you with water from the gutter.

I don’t like too hot summers. I can’t cool my house down enough. I feel like I’m melting. Cold showers or an electric fan with a bottle of frozen water in front of it (not too close) are methods to keep cool.

Britain can get very cold and very hot but it rarely stays the same every day. Sometimes we have short heatwaves and cold snaps, but the weather has changed over the last few years. Those mild wet winters are confusing the plants and insects. Life is trying to keep up with man made climate change and I don’t think we are doing enough.

Rain again

Posted on May 16, 2024May 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Description, dripping, Grey day, Life, pouring down, Rain, rivulets, Water, Weather, Wet, window panesLeave a comment

Water from the sky all day, falling incessantly. Rivulets splashing. Grey sky, rain pouring down, puddles and rushing gutters overflowing. I haven’t been out. Sitting in a warm jumper. I haven’t even opened the curtains! I watched the water running down the window panes in the kitchen, following wriggling lines downwards, drips racing each other to the bottom. Tears from the sky. Such a dark day, concrete coloured clouds and not silver lined. Perfect for ducks! Perhaps it will be better tomorrow?

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.

Mallaband-Brown

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