Mornings…?

Posted on November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Challenge, Fun, Humour, lark, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Rhyme, Words, WritingLeave a comment

I try and write a limerick for Esther Chiltons blog on a Monday. Someone puts a prompt word up and people respond.

I usually forget to copy my limerick for myself but I did today. Its a bit clumsy, the lines are quite long, but it does have the structure of a limerick. That is the first two lines have the last word rhyming, the next two lines rhyme with each other and then the final fifth line rhymes with the first two.

Here it is, the prompt word was ‘lark’ which can appear anywhere in the limerick, not necessarily at the end of a line.

I’m very rarely up with the lark
Early attendance I get a black mark
Just goes to show staying up late
Does not myself an early bird make
I get up so late, its already gone dark!

My favourite leaf

Posted on November 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, ballet, circling, dried, ice skater, Leaf, pirouette, Poem, Poetry, Seeing, Swirl, Wolf, Words4 Comments

Growling like a wolf

This leaf fell

Onto hard paving

Slabs of grey

Worn and cracked

Struggling to rise again

In a swirling breeze

Like an ice skater

Or a ballet dancer,

Pirouetting

In tight circles

Plummeting suddenly

Down and dead.

Echolalia

Posted on November 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged definition, echo, echolalia, Learning, repeat, speak, Talk, Thinking, Words6 Comments

The repetition of other people’s words or sounds is echolalia. When the toddler you babysit repeats everything you say, over and over again, you can call it “annoying,” or you can call it echolalia..

I looked this up because a friend would keep repeating what I said, what I said. I did not know why, know why…..

Apparently it’s something to do with psychiatric disorders or autism. I would not say my friend suffered from either of these. Perhaps it was a habit? I don’t know. It was incredibly annoying until I realised it was normal for my friend and learned to accept it.

I digress!

Posted on August 17, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, College, essay, Illustration, lost in words, Semiotics?, signifiers, signs, WordsLeave a comment

I’m writing an essay about illustration but I keep going off at a tangent. I have to talk about how signs and signifiers, icons and symbols affect the images. But I’m very interested in the causes of homelessness and that keeps creeping into the essay. I even quoted a poem by a poet called Seamus Fox, called ‘No Homeless here’. I had to take it out. I’ve also trawled through numerous books to try and explain semiotics and I’m really struggling. What do I do? I just keep pushing and trying. Sometimes digressing… Hard work.

Fork handles or Four candles?

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, fork handles, four candles, Fun, Humour, Letters, Sketching, two Ronnie's, Words2 Comments

Just found this old drawing, I was playing with words. There is a comedy sketch by a duo in the 1970’s. It’s a bit like Monty Pythons dead parrot sketch in that it is a classic British comedy sketch. This one was by the Two Ronnie’s (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett). In it one of them goes into a shop and asks for various objects and the other one brings things out that sound the same but are different. Hence the ‘four candles /fork handles joke.

Anyway that’s what the writing on this is about. I think I was trying to mimic graffiti.

Another one…

Posted on February 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, big city dreams, Found, Life, Photo, stencil, Text, WordsLeave a comment

My collection of this stencil has increased today. I seem to be seeing it all over the place. I like it, makes me think about the creativity of the city. Yes we should have dreams, maybe small city dreams, little city daydreams, tiny city ambitions? I can think of lots of three word versions of the phrase….

Big City Dreams

Posted on February 8, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, big city dreams, Graffiti, Heart, Photos, Staffordshire, stencils, Stoke-on trent, Text, Words5 Comments

I keep seeing this stencil around our city. I think it’s a work by a local artist called ‘stokesy’? Whoever it is they are emulating Banksy.

I like these, it feels like they care about the city. There is a neatness and confidence about them. They are representative of the creative spirit of the city of the Potteries. The home of Clarice Cliff and Suzie Cooper, Emma Bridgewater, Wedgewood, and all the potteries and makers in the area. I ❤️ this city, I ♥️ Stoke-on-Trent.

painting of wet walk

Posted on February 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, #bandofsketchers, Art, Cold, feltpens, signage, Test, Walking, Watercolour, Wet, Windy, WordsLeave a comment

Todays #bandofsketchersprompt was signage, and as I was walking home after a long, wet, cold walk I decided to take a photo with my very soggy camera, of the view. Since my college course has me doing observational images every day this fit the bill for both prompts.

Felt pens for the signs, a bit of underdrawing with a felt pen thats running out, and watercolours to give it a “wet” feel.

Sub-titters

Posted on January 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Hearing, howlers, mistakes, misunderstanding, Sound, Subtitles, Time, WordsLeave a comment

I’ve been watching TV with subtitled recently because my hubby is increasingly hard of hearing. But when the subtitles are being done in real time there can be some very strange results.

When nature programmes like Winter watch is on for instance, a ‘Willow Grove’ becomes a ‘Willow Grope’ , or on the news ‘set a new trend’ becomes ‘said a newt rend’! The subtitler sometimes retypes the words to clarify, but sometimes they are real howlers. I wish I could remember the best, but they flit by so quickly. Still it’s fun to watch out for them..

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Words