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Tuesday Treats: A Mixed Bag of November Pics

Posted on November 18, 2025 by crispina kemp

Some pretty pics from our walk on 12th November 2025. Enjoy 🔼 Red clover, still in flower 🔽 Catkins? This early? More flowers late in bloom 🔼 Ox-eye daisy 🔽 Yarrow The wildlife on the river Wensum 🔼 I haven’t seen this … Continue reading →

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Seed Fall Ch43

Posted on November 17, 2025 by crispina kemp

Chapter Forty-Three of my current wip. As before, all and any comments very much appreciated Please note: This is a weekly post Jess had already faced the problem of what to do with a dead body when Poalt died. A … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Wensum Valley, Ringland Hills

Posted on November 16, 2025 by crispina kemp

12th November 2025, the forecast given is dull and dreary with light rain at least until lunchtime. Regardless, we hop a bus to Norwich and another bus out to the furthest reaches of Costessey. We’re following the course of the … Continue reading →

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Like Siblings

Posted on November 15, 2025 by crispina kemp

Like siblings they share a name Like siblings they’re not the same Like siblings one’s older And perforce the other is younger The elder throughout the lengthy years Has produced a magnificent magnum opus to enchant listening ears The younger, … Continue reading →

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Friday Fungi

Posted on November 14, 2025 by crispina kemp

More fungi photos from our walk on 30th October 2025. Enjoy As usual, if I’m not sure I will not name. And mostly, I’m not sure 🔼 Wow, here’s one I can name (but only because I checked with someone). … Continue reading →

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CCC060: The Cobbler’s Gold

Posted on November 13, 2025 by crispina kemp

Beneath the tree a squat cottage grew As if out of the earth A native dwelling for a native man The man had the look of one grown out of that soil Short and gnarly Like a beech tree’s roots … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #060

Posted on November 12, 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: Yay! Colour

Posted on November 11, 2025 by crispina kemp

An assortment of various photos, including some fungi, from our walk on 30th October 2025. Enjoy 🔼 Chestnut leaves refusing to leave the tree 🔽 Beech leaves, not old enough yet to let go 🔼 Mountain ash, aka rowan 🔽 … Continue reading →

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Seed Fall Ch42

Posted on November 10, 2025 by crispina kemp

Chapter Forty-Two of my current wip. As before, all and any comments very much appreciated Please note: This is a weekly post To satisfy Kookka, Jess put his mind to learning the Itamakku ways. First, he would learn the star-beasts. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Autumnal Trees

Posted on November 9, 2025 by crispina kemp

30th October 2025, a day of dazzling sun. So we hop the bus to Norwich and head off to Mousehold Heath, that wonderful tree-grown heath with its precipitously-sided former quarries where fungi tend to show themselves around about now. I … Continue reading →

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