Category: BASIC

A twist on Snakes and ladders

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 30 Jul 2019
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Salford , 30th July 2019

Basic and spinal injury centre, Salford.

We’ve all played the board game of snakes and ladders before

Snakes and ladders board game cartoon illustration

The idea is you roll the dice, go up the ladders and down the snakes

all very straight forward , but has anyone tried playing it the other way round ?

Where you go up the snakes and down the ladders ?

It’s just as fun – and requires a lot of concentration – as you hit a ladder at the top and find yourself going down it instead of up.

We played it both ways – the reverse game is a lot more challenging.

Tags BASIC, board, Concentration, down, Games, Ladders, Memory, Salford, Snakes, Snakes and Ladders, twist, up

BASIC Nature Photography Poetry

Challenge 30 – No. 30 – Texture

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 6 Feb 2019
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“Taking the rough with the smooth”

Raised impressions of copper coins

Out of the Aquarium, smooth glass beads fool the fish

Under the fingers, some textures provide something to hold on to

gritty sand , much like the coastal rock it came from and

Home to a variety of creatures, whose armour mirror their own.

Tags Challenge 30, Glass, Nature, Rough, Sand, Shell, Smooth, Texture, textures

BASIC Poetry

Challenge 30 – No.29

“Vintage”

#Challenge30 #old #Priceless

Art deco box – “Vintage”

You can put a value on anything

but to most people family heirlooms are priceless

Things handed down belonging to a loved one that’s passed

Items with stories, tales and memories

Character ? certainly Age ? Definately

Its not the age of the item – its the story it tells

even if it can’t speak – it’s timeless quality speaks for it

Tags Antique, Box, Challenge 30, Glass, Glasswork, item, Lead, Object, Photography, Priceless, Vintage

BASIC Photography Poetry Water

Challenge 30 – No. 28

“Depth”

Down among the depths, taken at the Sea life centre, Old Trafford, Manchester

Deep down on the sea bed

Eager crustaceans

Play cat and mouse with

The fishermen up above them, and

Hoping they avoid the fishermans traps as they

Scurry along the sandy sea bed

Tags acrostic, Bed, Challenge 30, Creatures, Crustaceans, Deep, Depths, Fishing, Life, lobster, Nature, Nets, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Sea, Traps

BASIC Life Poetry

The attention puppy

Sometimes my mind goes wondering

Bright shiny things distract it

And it goes off on a wonder

It’s like a little puppy dog 🐶

And like every small animal

Dog cat or bird…it needs training

So I do my best, to keep its eye

Instead of letting it fly high in the sky

Breaking tasks into manageable things

Before it wonders off and spreads its wings

Tags attention, BASIC, blogging101, Concentration, Poetry

BASIC Concentration Memory Poetry

Memory

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 15 May 2018
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Salford, Tuesday 15th May

Since my last episode with my IV shunt, I’ve become more appreciative of what makes a memory

the smell of cooking of an apple pie in the oven

the sound of my favourite music 🎶 on the wireless

the feel of my iwm fleece, that I wear when volunteering

All these things meet up in the information store in my brain where those clever little neutrons in my head store them for future reference in this vast library 📚 of learning. There’s two other sections of this library, one holds a giant encyclopaedia of facts……the semantic section, whilst the other contains a multimedia extravaganza, full of music, pictures, film, tv and photographs

now since my shunt was revised, there’s been a bit of a mess in the semantic section, and it’s sister branch the episodic section….which holds memories of events and such. It’s not that I’ve completely forgotten about certain things, I just have to go back a few pages to remind myself of things

photographs help. Show me a photo of a place I’d been at and I’d be able to tell you the who the where and when the photo was taken. It’s probably the reason I’ve taken an interest in using a digital camera, for a visual cue usually triggers a memory of an event

and of course there’s the memory aids – Those colourful notebooks full of my random thoughts and scribbles. Now i’ve set myself up on wordpress i’ll occasionally share the ramblings of what i’ve picked up in the day, but it always pays to go back to the source – even if it is to source out that chocolate cake recipe i picked up in cooking demos.

Tags Encoding, Episodic, Events, Facts, Health, Memory, retrieval, Semantic, Senses, storage, Thoughts

BASIC Photography

Photo Challenges

Salford 13th March 2018

Over the last few days i’ve been taking part in a photographic challenge

#challenge30 involved taking pictures with my trusty second hand Nikon DSLR camera on thirty subjects – each with their own unique title.

i particularly enjoyed taking photos from an abstract view, changing simple items into something else.

The pictures have been stored on a gallery on flickr’s website and you’ll find them here

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BASIC Photography

Capturing Something new

Experimental

It’s quite amazing the effects you get when you concentrate on something

Turn on a humble lightbulb and point your camera at it

Reminding yourself (of course) to knock the flash off

If the camera has a mind – it was certainly concentrated on this as i moved about the bulb

Capturing the light – like a genie in the bottle

Tags Bulb, Camera, Experiment, Genie, Lights, Photography

BASIC Cooking Photography

Jams and Jaguars

#CFFC #LetterJ #BASIC

A couple of photos taken from sessions at BASIC Clicks, the photography group i belong to at the Brain and Spinal injury centre in Salford

for starters – here’s the Jaguar .

And here’s some pics of some Jam (Raspberry) and Lemon curd, common thread ? all items were photographed at BASIC. The Jams were made at Food for Thought, BASICs Cafe – they’re tasty on a piece of toast or a crumpet!