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How I Lost My Virginity to an E-book Reader

Posted on January 6, 2018 by crispina kemp

I’m an old-fashioned lass, though some might question the ‘fashion’ and just leave it at old. I prefer books that come on paper. But since I am presently rewriting the 550,000 words Feast Fables Trilogy, previously posted on WP, with … Continue reading →

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A Year Full of Norfolk Images

Posted on December 30, 2017 by crispina kemp

Too often it’s only the flowers and fungi that get pulled from my collection and posted to here. So, I thought with the year’s end near, I’d post some of the others, the non-flowers. The choice wasn’t easy: I allowed … Continue reading →

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Christmas Glasses

Posted on December 23, 2017 by crispina kemp

What to do with photos taken for a purpose, and then not used? I took these photos with intent to use in the Saxlingham history, recently posted. But somehow, they never made it in. The church of St Mary the … Continue reading →

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The Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2017 by crispina kemp

The sun has left, has gone away cold and darkness rules the day the earth is hard, the trees are bare bleak and barren winter’s here. But light the fire and watch it burn and know the sun will yet … Continue reading →

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Seasonal Sillies

Posted on December 16, 2017 by crispina kemp

When I began this blog in November 2012 I began with silliness. But being a new blog, my madness wasn’t seen by many. Now I’ve taken a sample of those sillies and not so much re-posted as relaid and renovated.

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Evolution of an e-book [1]

Posted on December 9, 2017 by crispina kemp

Couple of weeks back, when I wrote of my plans to publish Feast Fables as an e-book, I promised regular updates on progress (see A Makeover for Crimsonprose). I now realise if I wait the month round I risk my … Continue reading →

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The Migrating Village of Saxlingham Thorpe

Posted on December 2, 2017 by crispina kemp

Returning to the Norfolk village of Saxlingham, Nethergate and Thorpe, we’ve arrived at the High Middle Ages: post-Hastings, post Norman Conquest and all that. While William and his mail-clad henchmen hadn’t treated kindly with the English lords of this land, … Continue reading →

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A Makeover for Crimsonprose

Posted on November 25, 2017 by crispina kemp

Five years of blogging, time’s come for a makeover. And I don’t mean a new header, though that will come. And I don’t mean a new WP theme, though likely there’ll be one. I mean a complete overhaul. Five years … Continue reading →

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An Act Of Union

Posted on September 13, 2016 by crispina kemp

Guided by the spirit-light of the loyal Loyse to the only possible means of escape—an underwater passage giving onto the sea—Mideer has still to claim her inheritance, the throne of Madjaria . . . Read on. It was Hean discovered … Continue reading →

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Light In A Lightless Place

Posted on September 6, 2016 by crispina kemp

Coshed on her head and taken from her bed, Mideer has been stolen from her guarded retreat. But by whose hand and by whose orders? And to where is she taken, with what intent? . . . (penultimate episode) Read … Continue reading →

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