CCC#72
Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN
And apologies for being late. I scheduled it to the wrong date. Oops!
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 
You are late, young lady!
How the hell am I gonna match that one? 😉
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Sorry, big-big apologies. I’d uploaded it, but then scheduled for 26th Match… which is tomorrow. Duh… I do apologise. But there is no time limit!
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LOL! When did you realise it was not out there?
And, seriously, no apologies necessary… I am not gonna do this till tomorrow anyway 😉
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About 15 mins ago. So I altered the date and put it out, but then realised it wouldn’t be seen by those using the Reader (which I do) so I went back in and altered the time as well. Of course, if you receive by email, you’ve probably received two. But better to duplicate than to miss it. 🙂
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Yeah… I don’t like the reader for many reasons. But when I remove a multi-blogger from my email notifications, the Reader is where I go to find them, if I feel so inclined. I managed to change the settings on one blogger so that I receive only one of her posts per day. Can’t remember what I did, though
And nope, just got the one.
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Phew! I wouldn’t like to swamp anyone’s inbox with my duplications 🙂
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LOL… Even if you posted twice per day, I’d keep you…😉
I have 3 or 4 multi-posters that I can’t just flush. But I don’t read everything they post. I’d never get off my couch!
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Yea, know what you mean. I wonder if they’re the same ones.
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Possibly… I know one is 😉
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If it’s the one I’m thinking, I’ve had problems, and I’m not saying more in such a public place
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There is always email, my friend…
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email sent
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No, two…
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In which case…
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https://christinebialczak.com/2020/03/25/crimsons-creative-challenge-72/
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Love that image – looks like a giant bath plug 🙂
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Exactly what I thought when I saw it 🙂
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Sewers in lockdown?
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Oh, brilliant, Susan. Excellent. Makes me smile. 🙂
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LOL! That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.
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Well, in my opinion, you are bang on 🙂
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Cool! 🙂
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🙂
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Here is another try on interpretation: https://castorpblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/crimsons-creative-challenge-72/
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Excellent. Chuckle-worthy 🙂
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Thanks a lot dear Crispina
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🙂
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It was a giant rabbit, a real killer, with fangs longer than my arm, and eyes bloodshot with hatred. Its claws could disembowel a double-decker omnibus in less than a minute. The fields of Norfolk had been stripped of grass, sheep, and people named Smith in just four days.
We had recast the Fenris Chain with a leporine twist to the spell. The anchor plug holding it in place ran 600 meters deep. The chain itself was a magical silver-iron-iridium alloy. We’d chosen the place to make our stand: Ipswich. And the rabbit was coming right toward us, having last been seen in Woodbridge. But could we stop it before its rampage destroyed London?
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I don’t know about that rabbit. Are you sure it wasn’t a hare? A hare with a horde of ancient Britons behind it led by Boudica?
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I will ask it, once we get it chained.
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Good luck chaining it. You might get your chance at Chelmsford, if Boudica’s horde are involved; and again at Colchester. Thereafter… oh, I don’t know.
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We have thought of asking the wyrm in Breydon Waters to fight it.
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Ah, but I think the wyrm slipped down the plughole when the giant yanked on the chain. It’s not been seen since. It’ll probably wash up in the Thames
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Happy day, whichever one it is.
I broke the rules because 150 wasn’t enough, but that’s just being rebellious or getting caught up in things. One or the other.
https://ederren.wordpress.com/2020/03/26/another-lost-story/
Oh well, enjoy.
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It was worth the extra words. So no reprimand today!
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Thanks to social distancing, many forms of reprimand can’t be done anyway.
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It’s gonna be hell for S&Ms
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I like to think that if being told off at this point in time, it could be made nothing but fun. It can’t be done in person because of distancing, and if done angrily by email in Times New Roman, it can be made silly with Comic Sans.
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Nay, nay, angry by email has to be done in Arial Bold in Caps. Though I do agree with the Comic Sans. 🙂
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I tried mimicking the shape of the four (what I believe to be) mooring bollards that appear in the photo. The theme of the weight of living with lies surrounded me when I saw this. Very evocative prompt.
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Thank you. It has certainly drawn a range of interpretations… as could your poem. Words, phrases, sends the mind in different directions. Exceedingly good 🙂
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After the theft of the third bicycle in as many years, Amy was taking no chances.
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Love it. Beats those combination locks!
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So like this…
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It’s Doctor Who fan fiction this time. I hope you don’t mind. https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/saving-reality-flash-fiction/
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I loved it, Joanne. Works really well 🙂 Nice touch of the comedic, too (or is that cos I didn’t catch the reference?)
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It was meant to be comedic, so thanks for that 🙂
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I wasn’t sure… and if it wasn’t. I might have offended.
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I had me a bit of fun with this one … (don’t know where other went – as I only read others’ stuff after I post mine, but I’m curious now … ) 🙂
https://naamayehuda.com/2020/03/26/scale-things-down/
Na’ama
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Like this… yea, definitely unique! Great. 🙂
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LOL, yeah, me like to go sideways on prompts … 😀
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I like it when yuo step outside the expected; I like your unique twist on life
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Thanks! And … whew … because it is how it is and so I’m glad it’s enjoyed … 🙂
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It is 🙂
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A rather lame entry this week… seemed a good idea before I put it to “paper” so to speak. I’m putting it out there anyway.
https://adelectablelife.com/2020/03/26/checkmate-crimsons-creative-challenge-72/
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Not lame at all, Dale. As I said on your post, it’s witty and clever. 🙂
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Sometimes I underestimated myself, I guess… 😁
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As I’m inclined to do too… and you keep telling me.
I have to say, especially seeing the responses to this photo, the challenge really is drawing out everyone’s creativity. It’s fantastic to see 🙂
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So, we shall keep telling the other. Win-win!
And this week – yes! My goodness, the creativity is fantastic!
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Of course, this could be due to the stress that’s riddled its way through us although of course we all deny it. 🙂
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You are absolutely right, Crispina. Many of us say we’re not worried and we are lying through our teeth. I know I was unreasonably tired after going out to do my groceries on Monday after having avoided all stores for two weeks. It’s on all of our minds and we just can’t push it aside. Nor should we be complacent about it. Looking at the numbers in New York – and the States is rather unnerving.
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Yea. I began by binge-watching all I could find on the subject on YouTube. I like to be informed, and I prefer not to accept other people’s opinions, we never know what’s the hidden agenda. I also needed to understand, so I could absorb it. That thorough immersion hasn’t lessened the stress, but I do think it’s allowed me to view it without being swamped with dread. But… wow, this is worse than any dystopian sci-fi I read back in the 1970s. To say otherwise is to lie. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get through it.
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Exactly. I keep getting friggen messages from well-meaning friends about this or that: no ibuprofen! hold your breath! wear this, don’t wear that…
I tell them thank you and that I am also paying attention to the news.
The stress can’t really go away as long as so many people are not respecting the directives.
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Yea, I see the footage and I cringe. But, in GY everyone seems to be behaving. As to ibrufen, it’s the only thing that’s attacking the pain in my lower back. But unfortunately, it drowses me right out.
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Don’t worry about it. You are virus-free anyway!
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Maybe.
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Right.
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Great prompt photo 🙂 https://cobbledcontemplations.com/2020/03/30/chains-of-the-past/
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Thank you. It has triggered so many different takes on it, all so creative. Which is what the core of the challenge
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You’re most welcome–that’s the beauty and fun of prompts 🙂
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This one seems particularly successful
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From the number of participants and comments, it surely seems so! 🙂
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Indeed 🙂
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🙂 ❤
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