HAPPY NEW YEAR!
What with Christmas and New Year, and the weather, and yet another debilitating mishap, I’ve been unable to get out for a new Norfolk walk. However, this seems a good time to review the walks of 2024. I’ve picked one walk per month, and one photo per walk. Please, enjoy
The year began with intense cold and threat of snow…
Hethel 12th January 2024
Followed in February by flooding
Burlingham 23rd February 2024
Spring arrived in March, ablaze with yellows
Swardeston 27th March 2024
In April it was bluebells and fresh green leaves that teased our lens
Costessey 13th April 2024
May, the leaves fully unfurled, our world turned green
Tasburgh 23rd May 2024
June we visited Whitlingham Country Park to find its earlier flooding lingered, But this swan and its cygnet didn’t mind
Whitlingham 5th June 2024
In July we sought shady river banks, away from the heat of the fierce sunshine
Coltishall 4th July 2024
In August, while nursing an injured knee and hip, we kept our travels local
Acle 25th August 2024
We’re fortunate to live so close to the Norfolk Broads, for with me still limping in September we were still keeping it local
Upton Staithe 7th September 2024
Autumnal colours tempted us further afield in October
Horsford (Broadland Country Park) 17th October 2024
Those colours continued into November
Fritton Woods 11th November 2024
And with the autumnal colours gone, we returned to the waterside
Breydon Water 4th December 2024
I hope you enjoyed the little review. I don’t claim these as the best of the photos from each walk, more that they’re representative of each environment
crispina kemp 
Colourful reflections on the passing of time, very nice.
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Thank you, Bobby.
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Great selection Crispina
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Thank you, Sadje
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You’re most welcome. I hope you’re feeling better now?
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I was until this morning. And there’s my back screaming at me again! Oh hum 😘
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Oh I’m sorry. Gentle hugs
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Thank you 😘
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My pleasure
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What a wonderful 2024 review. Best wishes to you for 2025!
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Thank you, Frank. May we all thrive in 2025
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Wonderful recap of your year in pictures!
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Thank you, Dale. I wish I could post all the photos, but we have limits!
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Oh I know. Since December 26th, I’ve gone out every day, walking an average of 6.5 km (according to my Sports Tracker – which I am not sure of how well it measures) and have taken hundreds and hundreds of photos! I’ve still not seriously culled through them, nor shared (outside of the ones taken on my phone).
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My folders bulge and groan under the weight. Or would if they were the old school physical photos!
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I know exactly what you mean! It is the same for me.
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Digital, I praise it!
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No kidding!!!
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But even so, hard drives, usb sticks, and WP limits how many we store. However, my laptop is one terabyte, and I’m not there yet!
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There ya go!
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🙂
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I envy you have time to take walks through the country. Soon I’ll do the same.
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I will admit, it is easier after you retire. Yet I was doing these walks long before I retired, and they were longer walks. What I didn’t have time for was the regular posts on WP!
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If I’m lucky, I’ll retire in 2028.
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I hope it all goes well and you get to retire as planned. It’s a different world!
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Your photos are beautiful, Crispina!
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Thank you. I love this land I live in, love the vistas, the flora, and fauna. I think that shows in the photos
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Happy New Year!
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And to you, Matthew 😃😘✨️
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I really enjoyed re-living the year in this way Crispina, I hope you’re feeling better soon.
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Thank you, Andrea. It seems the more I do to try and strengthen my body the more it gives way on me. So yesterday I overstretched and the back strongly objected. Now today I got out of bed and my knee gave way. I sometimes wonder if my body is telling me to quit all this wandering of the byways and vegetate at home like so many people of my age
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I’m sure you’d never be satisfied with that 🙂
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Absolutely not. Over the past year I’ve cut down on distances. Gone are the days of 10 to 15 miles hikes. Now it’s closer to 5 miles. And I’m more careful on hills (most of which in the part of ‘flat’ Norfolk are disused quarries).
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