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  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Great mary <3
  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering
    Thank you I do have some more poems I have written if you want to see them
  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering

    Armistice day


    A stands for armistice day

    R stands for Royal Air Force 

    M stands for the memories of wars conflicts and suffering 

    I stands for injustice of all lives that are lost especially in wars and conflicts 

    S stands for sailors who serve in the royal navy and merchant navy 

    T stands for the British army

    I stands for intelligence corps

    C stands for casualties 

    E stands for emotional pain that war causes 


    D stands for devastation of war

    A stands for anguish of war

    Y stands for young lives that are lost


    So as we remember armistice day on 11th November let’s us be thankful for all the services personnel who have served in all conflicts and the support they have given especially in the covid 19 emergency to all frontline services 


    Mary bottomley 

    03-11-2021

  • Pandapaws
    Pandapaws Online Community Member Posts: 511 Pioneering
    @Grinchy That’s soooo Amazing! Looks super scary too! How long did it take you to complete 
  • Pandapaws
    Pandapaws Online Community Member Posts: 511 Pioneering
    @marybottomley lovely poems 
  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering
    Thank you it depends on what I am writing about 
  • Footloose
    Footloose Online Community Member Posts: 34 Contributor
    Footloose said:



    I only found out recently that these were the same plants as the yellow dandelion and this is the first photo I've seen that I can actually see it! So pretty and detailed!! How did you get into photography? 
    My first camera was a Zenit 3M SLR, which an uncle gave me on upgrading his camera. I then worked for Whitby's Cameras, but then decided to train  up as a machinist. My interest in photography continues ...
  • Footloose
    Footloose Online Community Member Posts: 34 Contributor
    A somewhat more challenging and exciting photo, being overtaken by a Ducati motorcycle, whilst on the pillion seat of another motorcycle, which was doing about 30mph ...  


  • Footloose
    Footloose Online Community Member Posts: 34 Contributor
    This was taken before I had to give up riding motorcycles, because of the problems I now have with both of my legs. I did try out a Trike, but it's just not the same thing and then there's the issue/hassle of having to also lug around a wheelchair on the back for wherever I am going to!
  • Pandapaws
    Pandapaws Online Community Member Posts: 511 Pioneering
    @Footloose wow! That’s a fantastic photo 
  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering
    Brilliant photo 
  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering

    Battle of Britain 


    B stands for the brave boys and men who took part in the Battle of Britain 

    A stands for attention to detail 

    T stands for thinking of the things that they might face including not coming back

    T stands for turmoil of what they were going to face

    L stands for the losts of their friends and comrades 

    E stands for everyone who was left behind at home 


    O stands for order of the planes that they flew in

    F stands for the friendships that were made in the war 


    B stands for bustle of ground crew getting the planes ready

    R stands for reflective mood the crew would be in before they go on a mission 

    I stands for intentness of the mission 

    T stands for the trust between the crew in the air and on the ground 

    A stands for the action in the skies

    I stands for intensive of the battles

    N stands for the nastiness of the battles


    This why we should never forget the Battle of Britain 

    Also we should carry on the traditional of Remembrance Day and remembering all those who have died or been injured in conflict 

    Finally let us to be proud of wearing the poppy and what it means 


    Mary bottomley 

    09-10-2020


  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Online Community Member Posts: 1,953 Championing
    lovely poem, @marybottomley, thanks @Pandapaws, it took around 14 hours to make, spread over a week or so, a less complicated version you can just see i'm making that for another friend, from the same mould just not as involved without the hoodie and base

  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering
    Do you want to see anymore of my poems 
  • marybottomley
    marybottomley Online Community Member Posts: 900 Empowering

    Broken 


    I never knew how a broken heart could be fixed until I met the love of my life named lee

    He has mended my heart every day since I met him even when we were just friends he started then he carrys on every day 

    Even more so now 


    Mary baker 

    11-05-2017

  • Jo_2022
    Jo_2022 Online Community Member Posts: 295 Empowering
    Wow @Footloose! 😎 I am impressed! 
  • Viola
    Viola Online Community Member Posts: 41 Contributor
    Amazing photo @Footloose!

    And what a lovely poem Mary.  <3
  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Online Community Member Posts: 1,953 Championing
    I'm working on another freddy krueger lifesize bust for a friend, heres the clay sculpture


    next onto moulding him, heres an older finished freddy i did when i had my own business selling these heads
  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Online Community Member Posts: 1,953 Championing
    Hey @Teddybear12, it varies, to make the initial clay sculpture its about 3 days work, then another day to mould, then around two days to make the final rubber head, and then another full day to paint, they are pretty labour intensive, it keeps me busy thats why its a great hobby, i'm slower now than i was but i can still make stuff
  • kloebear
    kloebear Online Community Member Posts: 68 Connected
    This is 1 of the pictures I coloured on  paint by numbers