Monthly Archives: July 2025

Tuesday Treats: First Flowers of July Part 2

Posted on July 22, 2025 by crispina kemp

Second installment of the miscellany of mostly flower photos taken during our walk on 8th July 2025. Enjoy Those bramble-briars, they’ll grow anywhere, even on top of a gate post 🔼🔽 a wild rose briar already colouring for autumn Surprised … Continue reading →

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Seed Fall Ch26

Posted on July 21, 2025 by crispina kemp

Chapter Twenty-Six of my current wip. As before, all and any comments very much appreciated Please note: This is a weekly post Jess escorted the Banmakka female, Li-Sae-ta, away from the farm and the hive, to beyond the perimeter. No … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Beyond and Back

Posted on July 20, 2025 by crispina kemp

Part Two of our walk on 8th July 2025. Having left Acle Marshes we walk to the tiny hamlet of Tunstall where we eat our snacks and fruits and head on back. We’re happy to have you along. Enjoy We … Continue reading →

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Curse Those Clouds

Posted on July 19, 2025 by crispina kemp

It isn’t a large lagoon It’s not always there Sometimes the shingle slips and fills its basin Sometimes the tide lets rip To shuffle the stones in its spiralling turbulence This morning I grin to see it Expecting the rising … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on July 18, 2025 by crispina kemp

Butterflies from our walk on 8th July 2025, Part 1. Enjoy 🔼🔽 Ringlet, our first this year. And then there were loads! Large skipper 🔽 the only one to allow a photograph Two very similar: Meadow brown 🔼🔽 and gatekeeper … Continue reading →

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CCC043: To Connect

Posted on July 17, 2025 by crispina kemp

What’s a bridge? A construct – seldom natural To link To connect To facilitate ease of communication Between two disparate parts To span a chasm To acknowledge two sides Perhaps to unite a shattered world

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #043

Posted on July 16, 2025 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here there are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: First Flowers of July

Posted on July 15, 2025 by crispina kemp

As usual, a mostly-floral miscellany of photos taken during our walk on 8th July 2025. Enjoy Meadowsweet, which was used in brewing before the Dutch hopped the North Sea to bring us hops! 🔼🔽 Raspberries grow naturally wild in our … Continue reading →

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Seed Fall Ch25

Posted on July 14, 2025 by crispina kemp

Chapter Twenty-Five of my current wip. As before, all and any comments very much appreciated Please note: This is a weekly post The hemp and cotton looked ready to harvest, doubtless sown by the outgoing workers. But what did Jess … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Damgate and Beyond

Posted on July 13, 2025 by crispina kemp

8th July 2025 and though the weather forecast was undecided we decided we’d get out there. Not being sure of next week’s walk, I’m dividing the photos across two weeks. Let’s go… Damgate Carr, at Acle, is a wetland woodland … Continue reading →

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