Crimson’s Creative Challenge #68: Aug 2018
Breydon New Bridge — seen above — was built in 1983.
I remember it well; it was the year I moved to Great Yarmouth…
… from Costessey, with its old bridge — seen below
Costessey Mill: March 2018
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Glad I changed my mind… I was gonna do something similar 😉
Doesn’t have the same charm as the old one did, does it? (Though the pictures are great!)
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March 2018, Costessey was flooded. Not that that was unusual. I remember it often from when I lived there. Every route in and out was a river.
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Eeesh… Not fun for the residents!
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It was like that at the end of most winters. We were often cut off. Schools closed (my daughters loved it). And I remember as a kid, skating on the frozen flood.
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It does sound like fun… though more for children than adults worrying, I imagine.
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Skating the floods was okay, cos that was over the meadows where the water wasn’t deep. But there are old gravel workings, flooded on the edge of the village, and one year they froze. And yes, me and my friends did skate on it. Lethal. Crazy. No, the ice didn’t break. But I’d send myself into sweats, fearing my daughters might be as stupid as me.
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Kids. Funny how we could do these things but fear our kids would do like us! And they do – and worse 😉
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Don’t I know it. Nervous breakdowns, we get them from our kids!
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But you can still answer with a photo of a bridge. Many many micro-fictions, many many poems; why not two with answering photos? And your followers see, and my followers see, and for the most part they’re not the same followers. If you follow me 🙂
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Oh, but I did 😉
You know me…
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Indeed, you did. 🙂
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Quite a big difference from old to new.
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I don’t know the age of that old one. I’m guessing it was built with the mill was built, and I don’t know the date of that either.
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great advice dear.
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I’m late… https://castorpblog.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/crimsons-creative-challenge-68/
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No, no such thing as late on this challenge 🙂
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Thank you,🤗
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🙂
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I too rather favor the old bride in Costessey Mill. It seems to have so much more flavor than the new construction…
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I have a soft spot for the old bridge too. Time was, we dived off that bridge. But then the water authorities made the river this side of the bridge into a weir. No depth to the water now. And it doesn’t stop the flooding, though I suppose it helps the banks erosion. I think it was done to help prevent acidents as the road over the bridge got busier.
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Traffic is a good motivator. That is one thing I love about Alaska there is no traffic. Ever. Now there might be in Anchorage, but I have never been.
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I don’t know for certain, but I think when the mill was built, that the road through to the next village was also built. Until then there’d been a single-lane cart track that crossed the river further along, still used in 1950s, but even the track is now marked as private property. Ch-ch-changes. 🙂
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I like that switch from old to new, as if the bridges represent a move in your life, from old to new. (Not new now, of course!) As Dale says, great photos
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But the bridges do represent that. For that was the year I moved, and that move did start a new phase of my life. But I still go back to the old, for fleeting visits.
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Bridges are useful things – physically, metaphorically. It’s those crossing places again. So very important
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Memories of Celtic mythology…
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Ah, we’re back in the marshlands again 🙂
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The Celts were great at making trackways across every kind of terrain. We say, Oh look, it’s a Roman road. But mostly they’re Celtic road, just resurfaced by the Romans.
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Didn’t know that. I guess it’s the same old story with the Romans – they built/often wrote on stone so their history survived better
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Many of the tracks have now been excavated both on the Continent and especially in Ireland. Many cross otherwise unpassable marshes. In many instances the Romans laid their roads above them.
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Well, the Romans were very good at nicking other people’s ideas! I remember studying ancient technologies and discovering that Romans weren’t big innovators but they were very good at taking other civilisation’s advances and running with them
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You want a list of the things they took from the Celts?
Chain mail. Long shields. Short swords (the gladius)
and that’s what I can skim off the top of my head.
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Same with religions, too wasn’t it? Absorbing any foreign god into their pantheon. Except the monotheistic ones, of course – they drew the line at those!
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But Rome wasn’t alone in thta. It was common practice to *adopt* or *include* the gods of those people you’d conquered. Yep, even the Jews did it in their earliest days.
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Really? That’s a surprise, a monotheist religion taking in other gods
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No, this was before their captivity. It was only on their return that they kicked out all gods but the one.
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Ah, I see. Interesting
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I’ve read a lot of their history. Karen Armstrong, ex-nun, highly recommended. But also, as you know, archeaology is a strong thing with me
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By which I mean Babylon, not Egypt
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I love the old bridge. I understand why new bridges look the way they do from a design perspective, but it would be cool if the builders could still provide a facade of some sort to make them look so delightful.
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I expect the builders of Breydon Bridge (the new bridge) would claim it is clad in stone… which it is. At least, those piers that jut out, beckoning the shipping to come along this way.
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Love that old bridge.
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Thank you. Poor old bridge, looks as if it won’t stand much longer. No lorries allowed.
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Maybe it could be kept for bikes and pedestrians.
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Thing is, it’s on the only road that connects two villages.
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