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Sunday Picture Post: A Year of Norfolk Walks

Posted on January 5, 2025 by crispina kemp

HAPPY NEW YEAR! What with Christmas and New Year, and the weather, and yet another debilitating mishap, I’ve been unable to get out for a new Norfolk walk. However, this seems a good time to review the walks of 2024. … Continue reading →

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Out of the Clouds

Posted on January 4, 2025 by crispina kemp

From out of the clouds Like a tsunami it surged Our land and people to submerge In one eternal purge Life and death in that moment to merge 28 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Merge

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First Lady Britannia

Posted on January 2, 2025 by crispina kemp

Who’s that atop that column? That, my friend, is Britannia, the First Lady of this land. What, like a president’s wife…? Like a goddess. She old, then? She found her name in the first century BCE; given her by the … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #015

Posted on January 1, 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 there are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treat: Details Seen Along The River

Posted on December 31, 2024 by crispina kemp

Some additional photos from our sunrise walk on 20th December 2024. Enjoy It was encouraging for our town’s economy to see so many ships in port This is a shot I couldn’t resist. Spotlight on the mallow I am fascinated … Continue reading →

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Work In Progress Ch4

Posted on December 30, 2024 by crispina kemp

Chapter Four of my current wip. All and any comments very much appreciated Canipse couldn’t control his teeth, jammed tight and grinding, but he did try not to clench his fists. That would have been altogether too noticeable. That Zem … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: To The Harbour’s Mouth

Posted on December 29, 2024 by crispina kemp

20th December 2024 is the closest we can schedule a solstice walk. But will we catch the sunrise, when most days have been grey and overcast? We can hope.  Please join us Despite the sun is still beyond the sea’s … Continue reading →

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Caught In The Pink

Posted on December 28, 2024 by crispina kemp

This Little Egret looks to be blushing, caught bathing just as the sun bursts free of a low bank of clouds and although it’s the ‘golden hour’ the sun’s rays paints everything pink and red. Despite the blush, I’m claiming … Continue reading →

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Fenced Around, It’s Absurd

Posted on December 28, 2024 by crispina kemp

Fenced around with uncommon words To use in exactly forty, that’s absurd Yet Sammi grants us grace Gives us a little manoeuvring space We don’t have to use the same part of speech Good, cos beleaguer is beyond my reach … Continue reading →

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CCC014: Home

Posted on December 26, 2024 by crispina kemp

So happy was I After all these years to be going home Yet I wasn’t sure I’d taken the right turning Nothing familiar in my surroundings And the farther I walked The more I baulked Certain now I’d lost my way … Continue reading →

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