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Sunday Picture Post: Summer Down By The Estuary

Posted on September 10, 2023 by crispina kemp

16th August dawns loud with sun. What better day to walk alongside the estuary. Cooling breezes from the water…or so we hope! So, fill the water bottles and let’s go…

16th August 2023

But first there’s the common to cross…

16th August 2023

Tide is high, the water reflects the deep blue sky

16th August 2023

We stop to take a slug of water, and look back. What’s happened to the cooling breezes?

16th August 2023

We’re trapped between grazing marshes and the water, it’s baking hot, and very humid

16th August 2023

We leave the estuary, to cross the grazing-marsh…

16th August 2023

By tradition, this is cattle-grazing country, but of late horses have taken their places. These are rescued horses, a charity totally funded by public donation

16th August 2023

The road winds between alders and willows…

16th August 2023

To take us to the higher ground that is Burgh Castle which overlooks the Yare and Waveney confluence…

16th August 2023

Clouds are amassing. Are we to get rain? No matter, we’re ready to catch the bus home. It truly is the most humid conditions, clothes drenched.

Hope you enjoyed

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Baked Estuarine Flora

Posted on September 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

16th August 2023

This colourful collection of summer-baked flora caught my eye as I walked alongside the path beside the estuary.

Along The Path, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

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Exhibits At An Exhibition

Posted on September 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

image on pixabay by Peggy Marco

“Stirling!” he said.

I said, “What? You can’t be serious. But that is crap.”

“Au contraire, my currant bun,” he said. “That reaches the highest pinnacle of artistic expression.”

I looked again at the exhibit, corralled as it was within a cordon of red-baked bricks. Wisely, visitors kept a distance.

“And where,” I said, “will you stamp the hallmark on that pile of dung?”

64 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Hallmark

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CCC252: That Heavy Throb

Posted on September 7, 2023 by crispina kemp

It had grown in volume
That heavy throb
Announcing
Something
Frightening
About to appear
Something
Big
Materialising
Out of the empty air
Imagination into hyperdrive
What could it be?
Too many war movies
On TV
Nerves now in a mess
But it was more like something out of *M*A*S*H*

Alas, this was a real emergency, not something staged for TV. I hope they got their patient to hospital in time and everything turned out fine.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #252

Posted on September 6, 2023 by crispina kemp

Here’s how it works:

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 newly minted proverb, adage or saying
An essay
A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

Your creative offering is indeed yours
Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it.

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: Summer Flowers

Posted on September 5, 2023 by crispina kemp

Some of the flower photos from our walk on 7th August. Enjoy…

7th August 2023

St John’s Wort after flowering. Not sure which species. I have this in my garden and I’m most upset because mine haven’t turned this wonderful crimson-red!

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Hares Foot Clover…

7th August 2023

Tansy…a herbalist remedy for intestinal worms!

7th August 2023

Teasel with lady-bugs snuggling tight (Bishies in this part of the world!)

7th August 2023

Corn Marigold, Corn Cockle and Mayweed showing their colours amongst the bracken…

7th August 2023

Field Scabious…

7th August 2023

Corn Marigolds and Poppies, such a bright combination…

7th August 2023

Bladder Campion. Love these, they hang around like fragile ghosts…

7th August 2023

Toadflax…

7th August 2023

Hemp nettle… it was growing just into the woods…

7th August 2023

Bittersweet. Since childhood these flowers have fascinated me…

7th August 2023

Bittersweet berries. Oops, poisonous!

7th August 2023

Old Man’s Beard, aka Traveller’s Joy, the wild cousin of Clematis…

And that’s all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed.

More next week!

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Sunday Picture Post: A Breton Chase

Posted on September 3, 2023 by crispina kemp

7th August we return to the formerly “forbidden” woods of Costessey, this time as a short-cut to the neighbouring parish. But first, this…

7th August 2023

We’re hoping to walk along the river Tud which flows through this anciently-held Breton estate but deep beds of nettles stand in our way. Instead we’re content with this…

7th August 2023

In Domesday Book, compiled 1086, this estate was held by the Breton Count Rufus. Before Norman rule it had belonged to the English Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, Harold (who briefly was king in 1066)…