Monthly Archives: August 2025

Tuesday Treats: Ready For Fall

Posted on August 12, 2025 by crispina kemp

A medley of photos from our walk on 6th August 2025. Enjoy High summer, the best of the wild flowers now are putting out seeds, out hedgerows now are rich in nuts and fruits (not all are ripe) 🔼Chestnut and … Continue reading →

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Seed Fall Ch29

Posted on August 11, 2025 by crispina kemp

Chapter Twenty-Nine of my current wip. As before, all and any comments very much appreciated Please note: This is a weekly post Canipse had ample time to construct a story. Yet when Dorsin landed the flier – too close to … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: A Quiet Corner

Posted on August 10, 2025 by crispina kemp

6th August 2025 dawns bright and clear. Forecast says it’s going to get out hot but not till late in the day. So plenty of water, fruits for nibbles, let’s go. It’s a double bus ride to get to the … Continue reading →

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This Ancient Xylophone

Posted on August 9, 2025 by crispina kemp

Inrushing storm waves run to shore Turning and tossing Tumbling, raking, rearranging No melody played on these ancient stones Chinking and chiming Never quite rhyming Yet assuredly playing A sibilant symphony On this old xylophone 35 words written for Sammi’s … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 8, 2025 by crispina kemp

Some of the butterflies, damsels and dragons seen on our walk on 25th July 2025. Enjoy 🔼Small white and Green-veined whites 🔽 ⏬ 🔼 Gatekeepers 🔽 🔼 Wall, showing underwing pattern 🔽 male wall ⏬female wall 🔼 Common blue male … Continue reading →

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CCC046: The Bishop and the Carrot

Posted on August 7, 2025 by crispina kemp

What had he done to bring this curse on One moment a red-coped bishop Leading a procession through a field ready to crop The next, brought low with a beetling brow A carrot in the soil beneath him rooting deep … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #046

Posted on August 6, 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 they are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: A Breydon Miscellany

Posted on August 5, 2025 by crispina kemp

A miscellany of photos taken during our walk on 26th July 2025. Enjoy 🔼 Of course the blackberries are fruiting. Yet it’s unusual for all the berries to turn colour in unison. Had to have a pic (picture, that is, … Continue reading →

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Seed Fall Ch28

Posted on August 4, 2025 by crispina kemp

Chapter Twenty-Eight of my current wip. As before, all and any comments very much appreciated Please note: This is a weekly post The door of Hive One was up, yet no sign of Armar. Too weary to worry about that, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: A July Day Beside Breydon Water

Posted on August 3, 2025 by crispina kemp

26th July 2025, forecast is for it to get out kinda hot in the afternoon so we decide if we walk alongside Breydon Water we’ll catch a cooling breeze. Please, join us Between town and Breydon lies a fen-like area … Continue reading →

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