Carving by Mark Goldworthy in Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich. Photo by Graham Hardy
Mother Kemp, ‘tis good to see you on your feet again
As I’ve been these past two days
Then you’ll ‘ave seen your Will at the Globe yestereen? Got a good part, ‘as he?
Good enough. Comes on stage, prances and dances, an’ off he goes again
No words to say?
Mayhap, but lost to me thanks to the flibbertigibbets
60 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Flibbertigibbets
William Kempe, 1560-1603, was an actor and dancer in Shakespeare’s early days of theatre. But he’s best known to me for his 110-mile London to Norwich Morris Dance Marathon in 1600.
Not an ancestor; he belonged to the Kentish Kemps, not those of the Waveney Valley
crispina kemp 
A very interesting story
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I like that my family name is associated with Shakespeare!
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Indeed something to be proud of. 🫶🏼
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Love it – and the story 😃
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Thank you. I’d like to claim William as an ancestor, cos I do enjoy Morris Dancing. But his association is to south, not north, so there we are
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What a wonderful smidgen of history all wrapped up in the thanks to the flibbertigibbets.
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All composed in my head while walking home with my morning shop 😌😄😁
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the teacher called her a flibbertigibbet
i looked up the word and laughed
by the minute
that silly old nun was always making fun
she probably just discovered the word
and was determined for it to be heard
she shouldnt’ have said it to christine clench
who said excuse me dear sister i don’t speak french
stop being a stupid idiot
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Interesting!
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Smack them up side the head, I say.
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Depends on their number? 🤔🙄😁
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What a wonderful bit of history, Crispina
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