tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73185857003291008462024-02-21T15:31:06.520-08:00Helen ChalksChalking in places I shouldn't est. 2010HelenWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13876272249010240097noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7318585700329100846.post-27844608672294177702020-04-13T01:52:00.001-07:002020-04-13T01:52:32.748-07:00Isolation Chalking: Manchester (forever)When you’ve been isolated for a month, you start to notice all of the really tiny things around you. Like, what time the sun hits the bookcase in your dining room every day (1740, if you’re interested), that’s there a massive allotment just three streets from your house (some big things were noticed during this period), and when a song is so perfect for a moment, the lyrics actually start coming to life (kind of).<br />
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This morning, I put my bunny out to play, made a coffee, sat on the back doorstep and started listening to ‘Hello Sunshine’. And for the first time in five years I felt compelled to run for my stash of chalk and capture this moment. It’s not ground-breaking, it’s just a patch of sun on the wall in front of me. But I feel like Gruff Rhys totally sent it from Wales to Manchester to make this day a little bit more interesting (I know it came straight from the sky, but I can pretend, right?)<br />
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‘Hello Sunshine. Come into my life’ - Gruff Rhys<br />
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<br />HelenWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13876272249010240097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7318585700329100846.post-85389125414257854372017-07-25T13:26:00.003-07:002017-07-25T14:31:52.735-07:00Liverpool, UK: New Yard, New Me! Maybe...Hello!<br />
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Here I am. Eight months after my last blog post which involved taking a small dog out for a looooong walk.<br />
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In July, 2017, the thing that is currently clearing my head is gardening (if planting flowers in tubs counts as gardening, that is... As it involves tiny, roasting hot gloves and a trowel, I'm going to say that yes, it does).<br />
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My tiny mum came up to visit me recently, and it was her idea to give our backyard a bit of a makeover. She is obsessed with gardens and demolition projects, and as our garden back in Wales is relatively under control, the sorting of mine was a project that both of us could get stuck into...<br />
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We didn't take any photos because we stupidly ploughed through it in the roasting hot sun, ripping out weeds, shoveling up sand and sweeping furiously for over an hour (we needed to work fast to avoid dying right there on the concrete floor. Seriously).<br />
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So here are a selection of photos of the finished results (which I literally cannot stop adding to. I think I have a flower-buying problem. And I keep sitting out here on my own, which is probably a weird thing for our neighbours on their trampoline to see every other second...)<br />
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Anyway, HERE IT IS. My new garden.<br />
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Every day is a good day when you eat out here (that is unless next door's cat has also popped in. More on that later...)</div>
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I need coffee...</div>
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My mum is mising Paul McCartney...</div>
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...and my brother is trying to rival my blog with a new one called 'Dave charcoals'...</div>
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Can we at least solve one of these issues with one of you guys making me a coffee?</div>
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Trees? What about you?</div>
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Thanks for sending whatever you sent down from your leaves for me. It felt like it had teeth...</div>
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Something has bitten me...</div>
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Probably not a spider, as my mum has kindly illustrated above...</div>
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Or something from it's web.</div>
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Mum, why must you mock me when I have a fly in my pants and there's no caffeine to be had?</div>
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This will be my seat until coffee appears.</div>
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'Mr Mendeleveev is the best', eh mum?</div>
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You've GUFFED on the bench?</div>
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While I was lying there, I heard a bird making a strange noise outside the window, I caught the reflection of one of the candle flames in the shiny metal of the plug holder, and I looked at my feet. My toenails need painting. My feet look wide and pale. I have a bruise on my thigh. How did that get there?</div>
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We were being all 'Noah Ritter' about it."Everyone say HELLO to the duck on my HEAD!", the small boy shouts, when trying to avoid Sofia Vergara's questions about him possibly having a girlfriend.<br />
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When my mum came to stay lately, I had to run to the window in the spare bedroom before she could get there, so that I could show her the duck on MY head. "Don't look down, mum. It's going to make you mad. We don't have the power tools and the garden looks really bad."<br />
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Thankfully, the trees won't have to fear the dinosaur for too much longer, because the garden is getting chainsawed to death by our landlord this afternoon. Excellent. Bad news for the Abelisaurus though, who will soon have nothing to chase, and my mum, who really loves carrying out demolition jobs. "I'll come up from Wales and we'll cut it all down and drive it to the tip in the car, yeah?", she said, rubbing her hands together. </div>
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<br />HelenWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13876272249010240097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7318585700329100846.post-72190097149249973362015-09-16T03:10:00.002-07:002015-10-14T08:54:08.921-07:00Cardiff, UK: Chalking with...a volunteer at Recovery Cymru<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This is my sister's way of telling me that she's too busy to entertain me (she stares at the screen, even when talking)</div>
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"Oh! If you wait a minute, I can be in the photo as well!"</div>
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He shows me his <a href="http://www.recoverycymru.org.uk/" target="_blank">Recovery Cymru</a> arm bands, and tells me that the treatment he has received in Cardiff has been second to none. And then he gets out a notepad, asks me to write out the name of this blog, before walking straight past the car and out through a tunnel and into the street.</div>
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<a href="http://www.recoverycymru.org.uk/" target="_blank"><em>Recovery Cymru</em></a><em> is a self-help and support community for people in or seeking recovery from alcohol and drug problems. They aim to help those who rely on their services with friendship, advice, and the time and space to develop and pursue new interests and hobbies. If you know someone who would benefit from this service, please click the link above. They are currently based in Cardiff, but will soon be opening up in the Vale of Glamorgan, too.</em></div>
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<br />HelenWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13876272249010240097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7318585700329100846.post-14681034980681914662015-09-03T07:35:00.001-07:002015-09-04T01:08:40.273-07:00Chalking with...Richard Hawley!So, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0686pw0" target="_blank">Richard Hawley played live in session</a> for the radio show I work on today (I know!), and he let me sneak him off around the back of the building so that I could chalk <strike>with </strike> next to him at the end! YES! *fist punches air*<br />
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<br />HelenWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13876272249010240097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7318585700329100846.post-23610180412320528652015-08-31T03:31:00.002-07:002015-09-03T07:43:44.505-07:00No chalk? Fine. I'll draw with a pen. On a cup.So, it always get to around this time of the year and suddenly I feel the urge to chalk again. I wanted to today, but the rain and a spying security guard prevented me.<br />
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Mary Anne, who presents a radio show I work on, is a serial tea waster. This is my way of telling her that she needs to start drinking down to the line before I go on tea strike...<br />
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