#CCC36
Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN
Here’s how it works:
Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE
Here are some suggestions:
- An answering photo
- A cartoon
- A joke
- A caption
- An anecdote
- A short story (flash fiction)
- A poem
- A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
- An essay
- A song—the lyrics or the performance
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
- Your creative offering is indeed yours
- Your writing is kept to 150 words or less
If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.
The photo was taken aboard the Mincarlo, the only surviving sidewinder trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet. Built 1961.
crispina kemp 
We had spared no expense on our dirigible: brass fixtures, wood paneling, advanced tungsten-magnesium electrical lights powered by quantum fluctuations in the aether, infra-hydrogen gas to fill the aluminium-frame bag, a team of 294, 116 passenger pigeons to provide propulsion, and most of the crowned heads of Europe on our first passenger list. It was guaranteed to be the scientific and social success of the decade, nay, the century!
Who would have thought Princess Aurelia would have smuggled in a cat, hidden under her wrap?
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Brilliant, Brian. I love the way it gets more and more detailed, and becomes ever more unlikely. And that final line … a chuckler’s delight. I thank you.
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You always garner a laugh, Brian. Maybe this cat doesn’t have a liking for birds?
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Now there’s a thought.
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🙂
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Dale, you have just unleashed a host, nay, a plethora, nay, a flock of comic possibilities. A bird and a cat BOTH loose on a dirigible! 🙂
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🙂
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I believe YOU are the one who has unleashed the beasts! 😀
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Oh, how I long to be stood in front of this again, poignant memory at http://bobfairfield.org/2019/07/17/crimsons-creative-challenge-36/
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Visited, Liked.
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Oh yes! I am inspired by this one!
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Then it was worth my while to accept the invitation to board 🙂
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Here’s my take on the prompt:
https://thedarknetizen.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/senryu-this-ship/
Happy reading! 🙂
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And I have read it. And enjoyed it. And left me comment.
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Always happy to post the prompts
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Hi Crimsonprose! One of my imaginary friends, Gou, wrote a poem. He doesn’t exist in real world, or rather can’t come from Cygnet to Earth, so I hope you don’t mind me submitting a poem on his behalf 🙂
https://verbalcreation.home.blog/2019/07/18/king-of-pirates-crimsons-creative-challenge/
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Well, you can tell Gou that I liked his poem 🙂
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I told him and in happiness, he threw the rum bottle out at the sea shouting “Me gettin’ famous o’er!”
He’s very happy 😀
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Oh good. I do like to make people happy 🙂
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Then you must be a really nice person! 🙂
I say you “Thank you” on behalf of that idiot Gou 🙂
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His relayed thanks are accepted with a gracious dip of my head.
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Gou asked “Ye a princess?”
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No. Though I have been cherished a few times.
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🙂 That’s “princess”ly too. What he meant was, you are very graceful 🙂
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Okay, I’ll accept that.
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You don’t need to accept it if you don’t like 🙂
Well, you must be annoyed with Gou’s silly talks 🙂 So I will call him off, now 🙂
Have a great day ahead!
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And you too. Though being UK based, my day is 3/4 done.
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Being of the east, our day has come close to the end too 🙂
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Where are you … approximate will do. Continent, or country
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Actually, I’m from Linnet Town, Planet Cygnet. Alien… 🙂
But there’s a portal from Asia too.
P.S. Do you believe in Myers Briggs test?
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Ah, that’s not that far from Alpha Centauri. 🙂
Myers Briggs? And now you’re going to ask me my score? Depends on the day. It’s an unusual person who’s always the same.
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Yes, Cygnet is in constellation of Cygnus.
Umm…sorry? I could not get about the score?
Did I ask it before too? Then I apologise. I was going to ask your MBTI type. 🙂
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Yea. I knew where you were leading. My answer remains. Depends on the day.
And for a while now I shall be prepping food. Forgive my absence. It’s the call of my stomach
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🙂
I am sorry again, then. 😦
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Um… why are you sorry? I see nothing to be sorry for.
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For asking again and again about your types. Ignore it, please.
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Okay. Sleep well. 🙂
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oh this was fun. Played a little game of word association on this one.. Thanks Crispina!
https://violetslentz.home.blog/2019/07/18/dragnet/
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My pleasure. When I chose the photo I’m always a tad anxious that it won’t spark the readers. But since I haven’t yet had a nil-result, I guess there are always a few inspired no matter my choice.
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Good morning Crispina, its a cold morning down under so I wrote this:
https://summerstommy.com/2019/07/18/crimsons-creative-challenge-36-a-morning-cruise/
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Love it. It’s not so cold here. Met Office has threatened us with a week of HOT weather and thunderstorms. Fine, if I’m indoors, writing. But not the weather I want to walk in, so I’m not sure if the camera will go walkies this coming week. 🙂
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An English Proverb – https://awisewomansjourney.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/an-english-proverb/
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Love this. 🙂
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Here’s mine
https://jengoldie493473930.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/ahoy-captain-for-crimson-creative-challenge-36-july-18-2019/
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Loved every part of it. Especially as it sent you on your own research trip. Nice one.
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I just updated LOL Thanks it was a good trip 🙂
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I could see you enjoyed it, by the work you put into it.
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😊
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And if I’d provided more information, you wouldn’t have had the enjoyment of seeking it for yourself 🙂
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Too true. You spiked my curiosity, as usual. Thanks 🙂
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Always a pleasure
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And always a welcomed pleasure. 🙂
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Climb aboard Footloose!
https://crimsonprose.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/crimsons-creative-challenge-36/
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This is lovely, Dale. Really appreciate the share of your memories
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Thank you!
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🙂
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Here’s mine: https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/ccc36-my-new-boat-flash-fiction/
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Seen, read, smiled, liked. Enjoyed, I thank you for the share. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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