CCC#57
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.
crispina kemp 
I could have a lot of fun with that one.
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Please… do. 🙂
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1. Dubious. I mean, what sort of proper milk gets thrown out of the manor house?
2. Only organic cards accepted.
3. Our eggs are allowed to roam all over the farm.
4. We only accept farm labour as payment.
5. Post-Brexit food bank.
6. No enslaved house elves employed on this farm.
7. Are you going to go visit the toffs or the ploughboys?
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Gosh, I lost you, sorry. What a hunt to find you. So, you noticed the stately house signage, huh? Though the goods are for sale at the Home Farm, so not quite the same thing. And I hope they’re telling the truth about the house-elves, cos Ministry of Ag & Fisheries come down hard on misrepresentation of that. 🙂
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I was wondering where this one came from! I thought I was all caught up and here you are top of the list!
Too funny!
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I am responsible… or irresponsible!
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Well…the important thing is, you found and brought forward…
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I couldn’t leave Brian hanging in some WP backyard. I could never do that to Brian.
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That would have been cruel and unusual punishment, to be sure!
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Indeed. Brian and I go back a way, as you might gather.
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I have!
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🙂
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Dale, Crispina has been supererogatory in her apologies to me.
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Nay laddy, not overdone at all! Just cos I offered to kiss your feet… again [ 🙂 ]
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I do not doubt that for a nanosecond!
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Hi Crispina! What does the sign on the pole mean? Is that a school?
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It’s a stately home or similar open to the public.
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oh..Hmm? A contrast! Interesting!
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I see the cogs turning. Go for it, Jen.
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Twizzling already… 😉😊
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Oh good. 🙂
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We’ll see when my Muse wakes up 🙂
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🙂
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Here’s mine: https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/12/ccc57-milk-it-flash-fiction/
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Like it, Joanne. Good one.
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Your photo brought out the beast in my I am afraid…..
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Aw, but it’s such a well-written beast!
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That one is certainly off the beaten path, even if the farmers are being beaten. 😉
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Okay, you’ve totally mislaid me… or is it me who’ve misland you? I can’t find the right thread. I swear someone’s been plaiting them.
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😉
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I did eventually find it. Last night was hectic, both on and off-line.
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What a great sign! Now I’m curious about what counts as “proper” milk — and I want to try some, whatever it is!
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I’ve just been asked the same by Joanne. And so I googled it.
The sale of raw drinking milk and cream is legal in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It can only be sold directly to the consumer by: … direct online sales. vending machines at the farm.25 Sep 2018
Raw drinking milk | Food Standards Agency
https://www.food.gov.uk › safety-hygiene › raw-drinking-milk
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Thanks for clarifying!
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Pleasure. 🙂
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Hi Crispina 🙂 I do hope this is “PROPER” 😊😎
https://jengoldie493473930.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/charlie-j-e-goldie-for-crimsons-creative-challenge-57-dec-11-2019/
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It’s mighty Proper, Jen. And it fetched me a chuckle.
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I love it when I make you chuckle! 😊
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Yea, I like it too. Though every time I write something to the effect of liking to laugh, I think of Pride and Prejudice.
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Oh?
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The scene when Lizzie Bennet visits Mr Bingley’s house. She says something to the effect of dearly loving to laugh. Bingley’s sister makes a sarcastic comment about it being a family trait — reference to Lizzie’s younger sisters getting giggly at a local dance.
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Oh 😊
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Yea, I’m a bit obsessed with Jane Austin, and particularly Pride and Prejudice. Echoes of school days — proscribed reading 🙂
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I’ll probably watch it tonight. I’ve seen it before but each time you see something new.
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I would recommend the version with Keira Knightly as Lizzie.
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I think that’s the one on Netflix ! Great!
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It is the most recent. There’s an older one which was made for TV. With Colin Fith as Darcey.
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I’ll watch the one on Netflix with Keira
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🙂
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I’ll take the Colin Firth version any day!
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It was the movie that really set up his career. The image of Colin Firth emerging from the lake, dripping, his shirt and trousers clinging.
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I adore him. He is so yummy.
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I do admit to being swayed in my DVD purchases by the fact he plays in it. And I was delighted to see him playing a baddie in Mary Poppins Returns.
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I don’t blame you. There is a charm in his slightly awkward gait, his smile, his – okay, just admit it Rogerson… You dig him! 😉
I will see a movie if he is in it.
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Yep, that’s me too.
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🙂
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I tried. I could not resist…
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Thanks, Dale. Appreciate how you pulled yourself out of bed to do this. Hope you’re soon well. 🙂
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It kept playing in my head so I released it 😉
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Otherwise you get no resy. I know what you mean. 🙂
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Besides… I just couldn’t let you down 😉
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Oh, that’s so… so… yea, it touches. Thank you, Dale. 🙂
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My pleasure… it helps that I had a story to tell…
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Yea, you couldn’t have told it otherwise! 🙂
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There is that 🙂
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🙂
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A nice personal family take on the story. So, your flesh-and-blood family, or a fantasy family of yours? (Because either way, it’s clearly your family.)
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Thank you, Brian.
Flesh and blood.
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Ah, this would be a place I’d wanna shop in 🙂
Here’s mine — sorry for the generic title — I was sure I’d titled it, but I pressed ‘publish’ before checking (I blame my migraine) – and had to add it later.
Na’ama
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Sorry to hear about the migraine, and surprised you pressed on regardless. That’s devotion. And I love your take on the prompt.
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Yeah, me stubborn … also not all migraines behave the same with me (thankfully) and many times I can still operate, even if on reduced functions and sometimes hilarious mistakes (to others … less for me, till later … ;)). Glad you liked my take on the prompt, whether it was titled or untitled originally … 😉
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Yea, I have been known to work through migraines. But not when I don’t have to. 🙂
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Yep. I hear you. Same here, overall. I also have a pretty good abortive medication if I need to take it, which isn’t always, but it is effective most times if it comes to that. So, I’m of the fortunate ones. 🙂
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I don’t get the much these days, but time was… ouch. Yet I discovered, if you don’t take the meds in time, nothing works. And if you take it in time, simple paracetamol will do it. Otherwise, ride with the pain. And then there’s that stage where all body ffluids flow. Yuk
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I’m fortunate that mine aren’t all that terrible, as migraines go. Well, some symptoms are difficult, but others aren’t as awful as for some. Paracetamol does nada for me, but the prescription medication I have, if I need to take it, helps most of the time. So that’s fortunate, too. And when not … there’s riding with the pain … oy. 😉
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When at their worst, I did think maybe I was becoming a masochist, as there’s something about riding that pain. I could almost say edifying, building character! 🙂
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My history is such that I’ve had all the character building I can manage or ever want, thank you very much … 😉
But, I hear ya … 😉
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🙂
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I like the fact that the narrator turns from being critical of her partner to wondering whether she’s a problem herself.
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🙂 kinda’ how these things can happen, eh? 🙂
Thanks for this insightful comment!
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Hi Crispina, my thought:
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Love it, Michael, as I usually do 🙂
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