Category: Tradition

Warp and Weft

Yarn

Salford, 22nd May 2017

A tale of Northern Mills

From north to south

and from east to west

crafty threads combine

on warp and weft

Coming from the animal

from out on the hill

and carded and threaded

and spun till wheels still

Or straight from the plant

coming over the sea

and landed at dockside

with the coffee and tea

then dyed in the colour

and sent onto mill

where fabrics created

from the thread from the hill

Tags Cloth, Clothes, Dye, Hill, Mill, Poetry, Spun, Thread, Warp, Weft, Wheel, Wool

Art Myths Nature Poetry Sport Sports Tradition

Shamrock

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 23 Feb 2017
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Salford 23rd February 2017

Lucky 🍀 Irish green

You spread good fortune 🔮

To all who find you

Is it fortune or chance

That besets your finder

Only time will tell

As they scour the fields

On search for your four leaves

In time for the football match

Tags Art, clover, coloryourworld, CYW, Football, Green, ireland, irish, luck, Nature, Plant, Poetry, shamrock, Sport, stained glass, Superstition

BASIC Photography Toys Tradition

Bearable

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 27 Jan 2017
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Location : Brain and Spinal Injury Centre (BASIC), Salford

Date : 27th January 2017

An Afternoon of Close ups and scene changes today at BASICs photography workshop.

Fortunately, our Models weren’t that overly demanding!

The workshop took place in the centre Café – Food for thought .

We had some fun and games in a still life session with some old bears! These bears had been collected over the years by our tutor – and formed a core part of a marvellous still life session. The bears were backlit and positioned on their thinking spots before we took the shots. I like the end results we got from this session.

Before taking each shot, we set up our “Stars” on their stage and adjusted lights and tripods accordingly – but being used to using my Sony Cybershot I mostly went for the point and shoot approach….I liked what came off the camera chip 🙂

Tags BASIC, Bears, Camera, Close up, coloryourworld, Photography, Salford, Still life, Teddies

Animals Christmas Humour Poetry Tradition

Darn that table!

Uneven

The kitchen fairy has been at it again

pinching a footpad or two from the kitchen table

you notice their action

as little veg strive to become escape-peas

The family pooch is drooling

as table slips and slides

and silver surfaced platters

around the table ride

Turkey ready for serving

in oven it awaits

as peas, parsnips and carrots

roll about on the plate

But light hits our family chef

and gets him off the hook

sliding underneath the feet

a perfectly weighted cookbook

So table will be fixed for pud,

with a couple of little pads of wood

and pooch for now will have to enjoy his ball

and not the turkey that was saved from a fall.

Tags Christmas Dinner, Dog, Poetry, Table, Turkey, Uneven

Fishing Poetry Tradition Water Waterside

The Fisherman’s Lament

17th December 2016

a poem for the daily post prompt Fishing

The fisher sits on his seat of green,
surveying nets he’s sat in between.
He’s been sat there, since start of the day,
and only caught one – which he let swim away

He hoped by letting go of little fish,
he’d catch some bigger ones to put in his dish.
And as he waited – it came dimmer in th’light
as wispy grey clouds gathered in tight

He cast out two lines, wi hooks brimming wi bait,
casting them out with his arm out straight.
As he looked up to heaven, and awaited fate
all he could do was to sit down, and wait

This Ancient ritual, of releasing the fish,
hadn’t so far caught summat for th’dish
Another cup of tea he pours
Listening to stories on Radio 4,

But, Alas what is this, he hears to the east
above the sound of the Canada Geese?
It’s the sound of laughter, that’s a raisin’
of the big fish, safe, in another basin.