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Tuesday Treats: Up Close and Personal

Posted on September 10, 2024 by crispina kemp

A few of the photographable subjects we encountered on our visit to Acle on Sunday 25th August 2024. Enjoy… Berries, some ripe, some not: blackberries and ‘haws’ (berries of the hawthorn) Rowan, aka mountain ash… And rose hips… all looking … Continue reading →

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Grandma’s Attic, Chapter Twenty-Five

Posted on September 9, 2024 by crispina kemp

The penultimate chapter of Thredwyl’s adventure. Read it all FOR FREE on Thredwyl’s very own site * * * Large in his professorial garb, Professor Angelus Margev blocked the alley, a beatific look of relief on his sweet old face. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Gateway to the Broads

Posted on September 8, 2024 by crispina kemp

Sunday 25th August 2024 is a UK Bank Holiday and traditionally the last of summer. We hop a bus as far as Acle, “the Gateway to the Broads,” but we start out early before the traffic and the heat build … Continue reading →

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CCC304: Master of the Riverside

Posted on September 5, 2024 by crispina kemp

Lord Cormy, the cormorant, perching proud upon his pole Surveyed the length of the riverside His. His domain. His to rule. But Lord Cormy was a blithering fool For not a hundred yards further along Hunkered down Humble in attitude … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #304

Posted on September 4, 2024 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.) You respond with something CREATIVE Here are some suggestions: An answering photo A cartoon A joke A caption An anecdote A short story (flash fiction) A poem A … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: Marshland Flora

Posted on September 3, 2024 by crispina kemp

Some (and only some) of the details seen on our walk on 17th August 2024. Enjoy. Purple loosestrife and hemp agrimony Water mint and bittersweet nightshade Meadowsweet entangling with reed; fleabane lending support to willow herb What is surely a … Continue reading →

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Grandma’s Attic, Chapter Twenty-Four

Posted on September 2, 2024 by crispina kemp

Continuing the story of Thredwyl’s adventure. Read it all FOR FREE on Thredwyl’s very own site * * * Thredwyl needed to head for the road Daisy had drawn in red. She’d said that at some place along there, and … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: A Gentle Marshland Walk

Posted on September 1, 2024 by crispina kemp

17th August 2024 and the weather looked like being kind to walkers. And so, now the marsh has had time to drain and dry, we’re off to Damgate Wood and Acle Marsh. Please join us. I promise you it’s dry … Continue reading →

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Now What’s He Up To?

Posted on August 31, 2024 by crispina kemp

It cannot be denied, this cormorant has a certain cheeky look about him, as if he knows something that you don’t. He’s probably smirking cos he knows that delicious taste of freshly caught river fish, and you don’t! Anyway, I’m … Continue reading →

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Going Once, Going Twice…

Posted on August 31, 2024 by crispina kemp

Timely, he gasped as, flustered, he slipped into the only vacant seat and straightened his hat – the wind had caught it, tugged it and left it awry. For if that bus had been two minutes earlier he’d have been … Continue reading →

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