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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 5, 2025 by crispina kemp

A few of the fungi we found along the way on 25th November 2025. As usual, if I’m not sure of the identity, I won’t give it. Enjoy Two stinkhorns 🔼 Dog Stinkhorn 🔽 Common Stinkhorn 🔼 These are like too … Continue reading →

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CCC063: The Magician

Posted on December 4, 2025 by crispina kemp

Billy hefted the bicycle, crossbar resting on his shoulder. Five miles, his walk from school, but he counted that as a blessing. His only blessing of this day. Five miles, plentiful time to construct a story. Billy’s mother watched as … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #063

Posted on December 3, 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: Bits of Colour

Posted on December 2, 2025 by crispina kemp

A selection of colourful shots from our walk on 25th November 2025. Enjoy 🔼 Beech leaves are always a good bet for autumnal colour 🔽 🔽 Alder, crimson catkins, crimson cones, I love to see this tree in its full … Continue reading →

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Seed Fall Ch45

Posted on December 1, 2025 by crispina kemp

Chapter Forty-Five of my current wip. As before, all and any comments very much appreciated Please note: This is a weekly post Jess burst with elation. Cela-Byi lived. As soon as she woke, he removed her blood-thickened clothes. Despite she … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: A Path Retrodden

Posted on November 30, 2025 by crispina kemp

We’d kept a watch on the weather for 25th November 2025. Of the several sites, there was no consensus. It’s going to rain in the morning, only; in the afternoon, only, all day; not at all. We take a chance. … Continue reading →

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Room With A View

Posted on November 29, 2025 by crispina kemp

I was intrigued. A narrow flint-walled passage led away from the clifftop. At its end, a house with this porthole type window, glass mirrored. A restricted view, but nonetheless a view of the sea View From Here, one of the … Continue reading →

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The Boss

Posted on November 29, 2025 by crispina kemp

He is a mumbler Can’t put one word in front of another He’s a stumbler Words, like a poker, stick in the wheel of his tongue His cursive script looks… just wrong It’s completely unreadable Utterly unutterable So why is … Continue reading →

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Friday Fungi

Posted on November 28, 2025 by crispina kemp

No fungi hunt through muddy woods this week. A warm and dry hunt this week instead – through the archives. I was looking for a collection I hadn’t yet posted. I found Tyrrell’s Wood, 8th October 2019. Truth, I had … Continue reading →

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CCC062: Under the Pier

Posted on November 27, 2025 by crispina kemp

Under the pier Where the racing waves Like wind playing with uncovered hair Entangle Where racing waves pummel Boom and batter a confusion All angles Where limpets and barnacles hold Deathly tight Under the pier That’s where they found her … Continue reading →

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