My name is Anna, I am 49 years old and I live on the Essex Sunshine Coast in the UK. I was widowed 10 years ago and have been a single mother ever since to my 3 children, 2 of which are fully grown adults and I live with my strangely wise and mature 15 year old who keeps me in check. I also have 3 dogs that are more trouble than the kids!
I was introduced to Hive by my wonderful friend @holisticmom who I have the honour of living just down the road from, big respect needs to go out to her for coming to my aid and spending many hours setting this account up with me, I am not the most technical person in the world and this is a serious test of my computer skills! She also introduced our other friends @audiohive-me and @queenoftheworld but I have a feeling they cottoned on to this a lot quicker than me!
My biggest passion in life is singing, I have to sing every day otherwise I dont feel right and I am lucky enough to have joined a commuinty band during lockdown last year called The Wash Your Hands Band that performed every Sunday in the park bandstand for free, giving some much needed joy to the local commuinity. From that band a 4 piece busking band formed consisting of me, a trombone player, saxophone player, trumpeter and AMAZING clarinetist, all of them are top of their game, professional musicians, and then there was me! We were no longer allowed to busk as lockdown got stricter so we did a live stream which you can view here:
Dr Pepperlips and the Radioactive Whortleberries
Our album can be purchased here:
Dr Pepperlips Strikes!
My second biggest passion is art, I love painting dark, macabre, horror art as much as I do bright, colourful still lifes, I'm complex. I have recently discovered the joys of Procreate and have been doing a lot of art with that, it's very strange to be able to sit in bed with a full palette of of oil paints and create a lovely landscape with no mess!
To see more of my art please visit my Instagram accounts:
The Cryptid Crone
Bucket and Spade
Aside from that I love socialising with my lovely friends, getting together for jam sesions, being in nature, walking my dogs, reading, watching good films, especially sci-fi and horror and I collect vintage ephemera and vintage clothes.
I've lived a fairly drama ridden life, most people tell me I MUST write a book when they hear my stories, maybe this place will be better to blog my tales? Maybe I'll write my memoirs here....
I've been told I need to post a photo of me with the date, time and place in it, so here is this horrendous offering, the best of a very bad bunch, I wanted to cut my head off by the end. Now, I'm off to explore this place and find some like minded communities......I haven't a clue what I'm doing, I may be some time
Welcome to Hive, it can be a rather daunting place at times, there are some pretty good writers on Hive and stories available to read, some still active, some not so active, and some from back in the steem days. One of the first I met over on steem was @alienbutt, and hi wonderful stories of Alienbutt. https://peakd.com/books/@alienbutt/all-the-links-to-all-three-books-of-the-alienbutt-saga-posten-here-on-steemit that is the link to his first stories, totally fun read and if your 15 year old daughter is into reading she may enjoy them also. All of his post are old, and I am not sure how often he checks back here on Hive, but still the stories are there, and even though out of the payout window tips can still be sent after reading.
It is always nice to see new faces, and new musicians and people that actually read and enjoy sci-fi.
Hello old friend, not really active anymore but for some reason logged in today. Thank you for the shout out and I'll have to post an update on what I'm up to soon.
I loved your writing style, hope you and all are doing good with the lock down.
Hi, we are all well, i need to get back into the habit of posting on here. Hope you are all OK
Welcome to Hive! I maintain a list of Brits on here and just found you. I see you have a few friends here who I will have to add to the list too.
We have lots of musicians and artists, so I am sure you will find much to enjoy and people to share your art with.
!LUV
Welcome to Hive Anna, so lovely to read about your passions and I look forward to hearing your music(love what I heard so far, so lpayful) and seeing more of your art. (which I love).Any friend of @holisticmom's, is a friend of mine. I am a mum of 3 also, but mine are all still we me, the eldest being 12. Looking forward to connecting with you on here xxxx
Yay Anna, lovely intro post, so sorry I didn't find it sooner.
I'm so glad you've joined. You are going to love it here on Hive. I think WYH Band should do a special recording for #hiveopenmic 😁💚
I definitely think you should NFT your art too, it's awesome. @vincentnijman, is that something you can help @thecryptidcrone with?
ahem, you have the sweetest singing voice and they are blessed to have you as a vocalist. The next step is for Sue and I to get you dancing though.😁
...and your pictures are fine.
Can't wait to read your future posts.
Much love to you 💚🤗🌸
Thank you so much, you have the patience of a Saint helping me with this too!
You're so welcome Anna and thank you for the lovely coffee and lunch yesterday while we worked through setting you up. xx
Hello @thecryptidcrone! This is @perceval from @OCD team. We saw that you already posted your first post here in Hive! Congratulations and welcome!
Welcome to Hive Anna! Great that you have a friend like Holistic Mom. I'm sure she tuned you in to some of the marvelous communities around here. I love being able to meet folks from around the world1 I live in the Boreal forest of Saskatchewan Canada which inspires me to do a lot of nature photography. It's wonderful to sharew it here on Hive. I know there is some artist communities and many share the creation of their artwork here on Hive.
I'm looking forward to hearing your stories! Enjoy your time on Hive!
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Welcome! It definitely helps to have a hand finding your way around, but I'm sure @holisticmom will help get you sorted in no time! This place is full of other creatives as I have no doubt you'll find out as you begin exploring. 😀
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BEER.Hi Ana
You did it! You joined hive , after the first birthday of the platform. So Hi there , welcone 2021 is gonna be a great blogging year, not on the least because you decided to join!
The beginning can be daunting and the tech language sometimes is nervewrecking but believe me it do able ! No it’s not a free get rich quick sceam but you can earn if you are committed. It’s a true movement and blockchain, and I love that you decided to join us here. You will have fun blogging and vlogging I promise. And the garden will have some great tags to blog in about that hobby.
But in the beginning it’s hard and new and maybe you need help. We have amazing people here and a help discord if you need it. I love blogging, been here for three years already. But always be carefull with all your passwords, Never give those up !! I speak from experience !
There are always scams so also here so you have been warned.
Let me know if this was helpfull or if you need more help, see you in Discord
the Terminal. Here is the invite again its totally free,
Greeting from the Netherlands
@ Brittandjosie I use Peakd to post to Hive, but Ecency is also a possibility. It’s a website, mobile and desktop application that improves your experience on Hive. If you are interested for Android download : https://android.ecency.com, for iOS: https://ios.ecency.com, for desktop: https://desktop.ecency.com apps that helps you to connect, and that’s what we do here ! You can also earn to promote and boost your content. Again If you are interested https://ecency.com just some extra information in this early start of your journey here! Last hive.blog is an option too. Good luck with with hive experience and I Will See you around and may you find here what you are looking for. Just remember that all good things come in good time and never giving up is THE key to big succes on the Blockchain. Also you could join the the Terminal discord, as I said before we help there with problems or questions, for free don’t worry. Or visit @heyhaveyamet for more new arrivals, all are in the same phase that might be helpful or reassuring. Newbie exposure in the beginning very important. https://discord.gg/XZGPGpz
Good luck to you as the new arrival, may hive become your new life !
Tip! https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@crosheille/so-whats-the-criteria-for-a-quality-post-how-curators-make-their-selections
Hello Anna and welcome to Hive :). I think with passions like those you can really kill it here!
Haha, that's a great way to make me curious! I'm somewhat in the same boat:P.
Welcome to Hive! :)
Oi oi!! We got someone from Essex! Love the name of the band too 😃
Welcome to Hive, quite a few musicians around here which is great! You can find the music community page here and be sure to use the #musicforlife tag when you share your music too!
It sounds like you have a couple of gurus to help you get started but if you want a little reading material, I summarised the basics of account set-up etc here and have an evergreen list of all the different communities/topics here!
Welcome to Hive 🙂
Welcome to hIVE wishing you all the best with your blog and your journey down the rabbit hole 🕳
Welcome to Hive -- you have definitely come to the right place!
Be sure to check out what your fellow artists are doing in Hive's very own art gallery -- we would love to see your work on NFT Showroom! Also, you can see a bunch of art by heading over to @nftshowroom here on Peakd!
Welcome to hive Anna! So glad you made it here. You mentioned that you love reading and watching films too. If you ever want to write about book reviews or film reviews,check out MOVIES & TV SHOWS community. Not only you can share your love to film but maybe you can find fresh film recommendations too! the same goes with Hive Book Club. Anyhow, once again welcome and have fun exploring Hive 😁
Fetch some kippers and pop on a pot of tea, @pennsif.
Hi Anna, welcome to Hive, great to see another Brit join.
I went to Essex uni many years ago, happy memories. Need to make my way back again sometime, particularly to Mersea Island for some oysters!!