Monday 29 January 2024

Back to my old tricks

 I’ve discovered a new passion for art in recent months and some new mediums that seem to suit me way more than I realised. POSCA paint pens have become my recent and new love, they’re so quick and easy and suit my cartoon style down to the ground. I also now have a graphics tablet which I’ve been using to sketch a bit, that’s rather pleasant to use also. Bear in mind these mediums are new to me, but please see images to get an idea of the potential at least. 






Wednesday 10 August 2022

Raising Money for Diabetes U.K.

 I’m doing the 1-million step challenge for Diabetes U.K. and I’m seeking further donations. Check out the full story here. The cause is close to my heart and you can read it here

Thursday 10 June 2021

Monster Artwork Challenge

 I saw a challenge on YouTube by Jazza the artist about creating a monster based on dice rolls, so I’ve decided to create one of these myself, roughly based on the limited guidance in the YouTube video (can’t remember which video) as the actual challenge is a Tik Tok challenge and I refuse to use Tik Tok at the moment, I don’t approve until they can sort out some of the very dodgy content that ends up on there. 

No So far I’ve done my dice rolls:


I’ll be updating this blog at a later stage with the finished artwork. Feel free to get an RSS feed to your emails for further updates, or bookmark the main blog page. 

Thanks for your support. 

~Moondial~



Monday 24 May 2021

Who Remembers Squidoo?

 I used to have a Squidoo account, many lenses later I was a happy blogger, it led me to blog here in the end as I wanted to process a lot of content but from a personal perspective. 

Anyway, I now discover it’s run by hubpages (which it has been since 2014, I did wonder) and so I’ve started changing some of my articles or old lenses to see what comes of them. Here's one of them  

Enjoy x

Dominos Pizza

I don’t often order Dominos Pizza 🍕 any more, for a variety of reasons, but I took the plunge again last night and regret it again this morning. Don’t get me wrong, their pizzas are amazing, their garlic pizza bread is a family favourite and those chicken kickers are astounding! Flavoursome awesomeness! 


The rub lies in the following day when we all have various types of poorly stomach, turns out even my 10 month old (who only had one crust from the garlic bread) had diarrhoea this morning.


It’s not just one pizzeria either.  I’ve lived in a variety of places and ordered in from a variety of stores. They can’t all be giving us food poisoning, right?

It’s not the gluten, we all eat bread and a variety wheat based pasta and other gluten rich foods and we’re all ok. 

It’s not the dairy, we all eat cheese, well, us adults do in my family, very regularly, my son used to have a dairy intolerance (he’s 10 years old now), but he seems to have grown out of his dairy problems and has cheese on occasion and also the odd glass of milk. My 10 month old can have mild cheese if it’s cooked and she’s ok with that usually too. The cheese in the pizza we purchase from Dominos tends to be mozzarella (correct me if I’m wrong), which is a mild cheese, right? So it wouldn’t be that. 

We’ve also regularly ordered from other pizzerias in the past and they’re all ok for us all, even our children, even if we have it cold or heated the following day. Often these places may have a lower hygiene rating than Dominos, how does this make any sense?


So, my main reason for this post is; what is it about Dominos Pizza specifically that causes such a nasty stomach reaction the next morning?

Sunday 27 December 2020

Pleidians

 Hey all,

I know this is a bit different to my usual posts but I had a strange experience a couple of days ago (21st December, yes the great conjunction). I was laying in bed, (remember this is during lockdown), I saw a strange light around the bedroom curtains. Too bright to be a car and there hasn’t been any cars all evening anyway, couldn’t hear any. Equally the garage opposite which is the only place that sort of intense light may have come from, was closed as it was pretty late (gone midnight). Anyway, I mused a little about the light and then started hearing someone talking to me and in the room next to me sat a humanoid figure on the bed, where my partner was snoring away. 


They were saying they were Pleidian shapeshifters, then changed to a less human but still humanoid image, then shifted into a oddly shaped purple mass and told me everything is going to be alright and to trust my instinct, to share the information with those willing to accept it, which I am duly  doing. 


The light then disappeared as fast as it had appeared. It was about 20 mins later. I felt extremely peaceful as I stared at the curtains wondering if it was imagination (it wasn’t, I was way too awake either side of the visitation). The then fell into a restful sleep, I’ve been sleeping better and better ever since, waking up ready for the day very quickly and leaping into action. 


Comments welcome, I’m prepared for a barrage of people saying how impossible this is, but this was my experience as recounted the day after it happened when I told my partner about it (who accepts what’s happened as truthful). However I’ve not told my older child as it might worry or frighten him, my younger one (I only have two) is only 5 months old and it’s not totally relevant yet. 

Sunday 20 September 2020

Life Changes

Wow! I’ve been a mum of two now for 2 months and I’d never been more comfortable being myself. My 10 year old is a wonderfully helpful child and my partner also takes regular responsibility, which is really great with a newborn and the exhaustion that goes with it. 
Stuff Covid-19, lockdown or now, the 4 of us in a one bedroom flat isn’t ideal, yet we cope. No idea how. Properties aren’t available and come up way too expensive when they do. 

Any suggestions on the property front would be great. 

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