Month: December 2023

Favourite vehicle?

What is your all time favorite automobile?

To be perfectly honest I know nothing about cars and vehicles so I don’t have a favourite vehicle. I don’t have a favourite because I don’t know the different models to be able to tell the differences between them. Mercedes-Benz look nice though. My mam always wanted a Rolls Royce. If she had ever won the lottery she would have bought a Rolls Royce. As a child I loved the little car in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and I wanted a Volkswagen Beatle like the car in the movie. I also loved Kit in Night Rider.

To be fair I would like to have a Land Rover for my job as I’m often out in the countryside working with horses. That would be for practical reasons though not because it’s my favourite vehicle.

My favourite form of transportation is horse back though horse riding. I love horses and being around them.

Cities I want to visit?

What cities do you want to visit?

Well firstly I’m not great at geography so I’ll be naming some countries that I want to visit because I don’t know the names of the towns and cities in them. However I want to visit Paris again. My parents took my brother and I there when we were kids for a long weekend. I was 14 and in my first year oh high school and my brother was 12 I think. We were both taught french in school but my brother wouldn’t talk to any french people who spoke to us assumi we were french so I had to do it. On one memorable occasion a french man tried to chat me up on the Arc De Truimph in Paris until I used my school learnt french to tell him I was only 14. “Monsieur j’ai quatorze ans.” Sir I am 14 years old. I didn’t have much time to see Paris over that long weekend so I would like to go back for longer to see the city properly and perhaps to study art and french further. I was taught french in school and I keep it up now.

I would like to visit Rome. I would like to visit Boston, New York and New Orleans. I would like to go to Florida because one of my friends has been there three times and told me about it and another friend of mine used to work there although he is English and has lived here his entire life.

In my own country I would like to go back to York, to Devon where I went on a family camping trip when I was about 10 years old. I live in the North of England and I would like to visit Durham and Hexham again. I would like to travel back to London in my own country. I’ve been there twice to see bands but I’ve never seen the place properly.

I would like to travel to Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Norway.

The more I think about it the more places there are that I would like to visit.

What did I last do for fun?

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

Probably horse riding. Or the time I went to the cinema with my friend and his daughters to see the new Super Mario Brothers film. I also like to draw and paint for relaxation and fun.

I used to draw in my dad’s hospital room as he was dying when he was sleeping. Drawing is therapeutic and has helped me through the process of his illness and inevitable death. My dad had gall stones which were blocking up his gall bladder causing it to become infected. The hospital surgeons would usually have operated to remove the infected gall bladder to save the patient that way but they couldn’t in my dad’s case due to his numerous health problems such as cardiovascular disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, epilepsy, diabetes and so on he wouldn’t have survived the operation. So the infection from his blocked up gall bladder spread to my dad’s body killing him. I know this isn’t a happy thing to write about but drawing helped me to get through it all.

RIP dad Grandad Eugene to my nephews and grandpawrent to your grandchildren in fur Chloe and Jinx.

My dad Eugene
Chloe
Jinx
Eugene’s watcher. Cat’s face and eye’s that I was drawing in the hospital whilst dad was dying
Eugene’s watcher. As I drew this whilst my dad was dying in hospital it has become symbolic of his guardian watching over him during his final illness to me.

My favourite cartoon?

What’s your favorite cartoon?

It’s probably Scooby Doo. I really do like the cartoon both the original cartoon and the modern version. I have a collection of Scooby Doo animated movies. Probably my favo animated Scooby Doo movies are Scooby Doo and The Witches Ghost and Scooby Doo Zombie Island (whose full title I can’t recall). I also like the Scooby Doo Halloween animated movies.

However there are other cartoons I like and being an eighties child most of them are from that era. I like He Man and She Ra, Count Duckula, Danger Mouse, Sonic the Hedgehog, Dungeons and Dragons (the animated cartoon series) and stuff like that.

Is my life how I pictured it one year ago?

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

Well I didn’t have any plans for how I envisaged my life today so what can I say? All I wanted to do was to get back into creative writing which I have done and to continue my hobby of painting and drawing.I attended a creative writing class. I’ve also been trying to keep up with blogging on here. And I wanted to get back into painting and drawing which I have done this year. I’ve even completed projects which is a big achievement for me because I procrastinate. I keep meaning to continue working on my paintings and drawings and I keep putting it off.

Below are some completed drawings and paintings of mine that I completed this year.. Keeping up with a painting until I finish it is a big thing for me because I often put them aside and mean to finish them but don’t.

Snake painting in water soluble oil paints
My cat Chloe and my sunflower in oil pastels and paints.
My Pegasus painting in water soluble oil paints.
My Pegasus drawing in pastel pencils and soft pastels. I painted the background in with gouache paint.

I also want to get back into my volunteer work with horses.

My fox in nature drawn on to a clay tablet. This image is inspired by and based on a drawing I found on Deviant Art or Pinterest.
My mixed media cat piece. It’s in pastel pencils, soft pastels and gouache paint.
My The Nightm Before Christmas bag that I made.
Sunflower in oil pastels and paints.
Two handmade candles and a wood carving I made. I haven’t really made candles much before or done much wood carving but I completed them even if they aren’t great.
My fox in oil paints.

A clay pot I made in a pottery class. I haven’t done much pottery .