CCC#78
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 
Lovely picture, inspirational
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I thank you. My aim is to offer inspiration. 🙂
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Interesting photo and beautiful. I wonder what’s got his attention. 🤔😊
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I believe that was a certain photographer. My daughter was standing some distance away from me. 🙂
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I bet she was nervous LOL
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We were both on the far side of the fence, if rather close to it. I believe she was standing up on the gate. But we have been known to walk through fields containing fiercer beasts than this.
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I’ve never seen one in “Person”. This one looks fierce to me, or could be. 😏
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It’s just the horns. They’re not terrifically big. And reared for beef, they are castrated. On the other hand, I did encounter a big-big beastie when crossing a field that twoered over me, must have weighed as much as a bush, had vicious-looking horns and a scrotum that large and heavy it knocked his knees. I thought it wise to climb through the hedge rather than to walk past him 🙂
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Um …YUP!!! Dust comes to mind. As you couldn’t see me for…
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Worst thing you can do. Walk steadily, confidently towards the nearest exit. Then collapse to the ground as your knees give way!
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😂 a better alternative in the LONG RUN!
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Note the long run
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😏👍
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🙂
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I think, Jen, that he is a she.
A Highland Cow.
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I didn’t know cows could be castrated. But then I’m a city girl. Thanks for clarifying.
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Now, bulls are castrated. It keeps them quiet and helps to fatten them. So I asked how ceayr knew it was a cow… cos without seeing the udder, when young there’s not much difference.
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I am so glad you answered that, Crispina!
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🙂
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My entry – https://transitionofthoughts.com/2020/05/07/ten-word-story-waste/
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Many people consider rare breed beef as being exquisitely delicious. Then there are these Highland cattle which are merely pallet-able.
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Keen eye, spots the pallets. Nice one, Padre
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What sort of bull is that?
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Apart from knackered? It’s Highland Cattle. By long long tradition cattle were driven down from the Highlands (and elsewhere in Scotland) to graze the sweet pastures between the rivers Bure & Yare (which are the marshes at the back of Gt Yarmouth, where I live) to fatten for a season or two and then be driven to market (driven on hoof, not in vehicles). However, this one was found about 25 miles inland.
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Thanks. Cindy was wanting to know as she gazed at it….
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Yea, I understand. Knowing its breed probably makes all the difference to the level of inspiration. Oh, and now I imagine a story where the cattle do the Highland Fling. Don’t know what the Highland Fling is? It’s a Scottish Dance. Yours truly once performed it on telly (I was only 10)
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I’ve heard of the Highland Fling, but I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen any one dance one.
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I used to be in the school dance display team. Years later, my sister and I were both pregnant with first babies. My sister complained that she couldn’t reach her toes to cut her nails (she was 3 months behind me), so I scoffed at her. Oh, she says, I suppose you can still do the Highland Fling. Yep, answered I. And did so. My oldest child was born about 6 hours later. 🙂 Yes, I can still do it, but prefer not too; joints are getting old, and the back isn’t good.
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Laughing.
It’s a cow!
What we in Scotland call a Hielan’ Coo.
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Yep, sure is. What you in Scotland used to drive all the way down to our Acle marshes to fatten on our sweet grasses to sell-on at Smithfield 🙂 And we still have some of them 🙂
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BTW, how’d you know it’s a cow and not a young knackered bull? Sure, it didn’t have testicles but neither did I see an udder.
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The coo’s horns are more elegant, longer, finer and higher than the gentleman’s.
Interesting use of the word ‘knackered’, we use it to mean puggled, or puffed oot, or very tired.
But the knacker’s yard is where old horses, and perhaps other animals, go to be made into glue!
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Right, I shall bear that in mind in future. I thank you. No one has ever explained it, merely the requirement to look underneath
As to the word knackered, I can attest it is a word used in parts of Norfolk (or was in my youger days), though admittedly by pig farmers. 🙂
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Here’s mine: https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/visiting-jesss-friends-flash-fiction/
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Sooo…this happened.
https://adelectablelife.com/2020/05/07/unwelcome-crimsons-creative-challenge-78/
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So glad it did 🙂
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🙂
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Had a bit of trouble with the ping but I think I’ve got it now!
Almost got me in a mood! 😉
https://naamayehuda.com/2020/05/07/of-moods-and-bangs/
Na’ama
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Naughty, naughty WP. It has been playing up in various ways of late. But I’m glad you persisted.
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I persisted
and insisted
and fixed the link
that first resisted ….
🙂
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Very good. Now I’ve had an evening chuckle 🙂
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Yay hurray for a double chuckle day! 🙂
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Yea. Will the same happen today? I don’t know, I’m in a subdued mood, not writing many comments, only likes.
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One does not know what today will bring (deep wisdom here … 😉 )
As for ‘likes’ – they are good … and not every day is a ‘comment day’. eh?
Subdued happens. Perhaps some times more than other times. 🙂
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Yea. I like to comment, but they don’t always come to mind.
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Well, for one, I think there is no requirement. It is a nice thing to do, of course, and I enjoy the comments I get, but I also would like to hope that people don’t feel pressured to comment. If one doesn’t come to mind, then there’s maybe nothing to comment specifically about, and that’s all good, too! 🙂
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Oh, I’m not pressured. Some days I’m chatting, some posts spark a comment, that’s it. As you have probably noticed. 🙂
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Yep, and it is as it should be, IMO. 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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OVERCAST
We’ve had words
Now there’s just silence
Hanging in the air
Our backs are turned
We stare into the distance
For the present moment is
Too uncomfortable to bear
Perhaps in time …
Hopefully
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I like this. Captures the apparent mood of these two… and also of many another couple 🙂
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And I’m sure this enforced house arrest will up the numbers. 😦
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Yea… like the miners’ strikes in the 1970s caused a baby boom!
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🙂
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I don’t much like commenting on your posts. I was just being polite. This City girl knows better than to tangle with comments.
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It’s okay Jen. I understand. 🙂
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I hope so 🙂
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🙂
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