Crimson’s Creative Challenge #232

Posted on April 19, 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
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory) by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: Flowers, Fungi and Lichen

Posted on April 18, 2023 by crispina kemp

18th March 2023, we walked to Fritton Common via lanes and tracks, and saw… these…

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18th March 2023

These growing just beyond a garden fence are probably cultivated primroses. But the next two photos are 100% the genuine wild McCoy

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So many of the wild plum species in flower now, difficult to name them

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And these are everywhere where the soil by nature is damp…

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Fungi masquerading as a clutch of eggs… well, it is egg-laying season

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Fungi masquerading as jelly-sweets…

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And lichen…

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18th March 2023

Hope you’ve enjoyed. Let’s see what next week brings

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Wrecked on MY Pay-Check

Posted on April 17, 2023 by crispina kemp

image by Steve Buissinne on pixabay

He drank too much – was always drunk, stumbling and pissing on the neighbour’s doorstep.

He frequented those kinds of nightspots, feasting his eyes – and who knows what more – on those erotic dancers.

He had what he called a ‘stable’ of lovers, all sexes, all ages, for he said one lover could never satisfy him.

He attended friends’ parties – and I don’t want to know what happened there.

He was altogether a dissolute wreck. And all on MY pay-check.

I sought dissolution.

81 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Dissolution

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Sunday Picture Post: By Lane and Track to Fritton Common

Posted on April 16, 2023 by crispina kemp

18th March and the weather forecast isn’t good but we hop aboard a bus into Norwich, and then another out, and so far the rain has held off

18th March 2023

This for me is the epitome of a country lane. Maybe because it’s the lane that took me as a child to my grandma’s.

18th March 2023

18th March 2023

There are a few farms and smallholdings but no residential clusters

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18th March 2023

And now we’re off the road and onto track…

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18th March 2023

Up-up over a hill…

18th March 2023

This reveals a great age to the track, long centuries of use

18th March 2023

So far the rain has stayed away. Now it comes as a persistent drizzle. We pack our cameras away

18th March 2023

We’re already at Fritton Common by the time the rain stops…

18th March 2023

Some very old trees here, and old cottages… and sheep to keep the rough grasses in order!

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Walking the 2 miles to catch the bus home and…

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The heavens open! Camera tucked away again. It’s been a good walk, despite those ‘showers’.

Hope you enjoyed. See Tuesday Treats for the ‘things’ we saw along the way…

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In An English Country Garden

Posted on April 15, 2023 by crispina kemp

6th February 2023

A garden passed while walking the camera…

Topsy-Turvy, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

And that’s another line…

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CCC231: The Things You See

Posted on April 13, 2023 by crispina kemp

The things you see when walking your dog. Dead bodies – they’re always found by dogwalkers. And couples coupling. I’ve never encountered either.

But I did see this.

Is it a drug deal? Or a trade in diamonds? Amsterdam is directly across the sea. Is it a hostage exchange?

But my money’s on an innocent explanation. A mechanic, maybe, helping to fix a limping cruiser.

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #231

Posted on April 12, 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
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory) by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

I apologise for the line at the top of that photo. I was standing beneath a bridge!

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Tuesday Treats: Flowers and Fungi

Posted on April 11, 2023 by crispina kemp

6th March 2023, we visited two different woods. Here’s what we found

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Gorse, the mark of a heathland woods: 6th March 2023

Ivy berries, linger longer: 6th March 2023

And fungi! 6th March 2023

Yay! So bright on a dull day: 6th March 2023

That’s all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed

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Sunday Picture Post: Taking in Two Woods

Posted on April 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

6th March wasn’t the best of weather, but wasn’t the worst. After all, it is only early spring. A short bus journey takes us south of the county border to Gunton Woods.

6th March 2023

The trees hold out their naked branches, but beneath them are snowdrops, daffodils and winter aconites

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6th March 2023

The deeper in, the more established those drifts seem to be

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And someone close is looking after the birds

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6th March 2023

This is definitely a planting, but I liked the scene it created

6th March 2023

Peeping through the ivy-bound trees to Gunton church

6th March 2023

The train no longer runs yet the bridge remains to provide clear division of the two woods. Heading now to Corton Woods, where we’ve walked many times

6th March 2023

No under-plantings here; it’s all together more natural. Also of a different nature, being on heath instead of clay.

6th March 2023

Lots of holly and ivy here keeps it dark, even at this otherwise leafless season

6th March 2023

6th March 2023

That’s all for today. Flower and Fungi treats on Tuesday.  Hope you enjoyed

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Taking in the View

Posted on April 8, 2023 by crispina kemp

5th April 2023

Last time I passed this way, there was just the one model, all alone on the seat. I see now he/she has company.

How Bizarre, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

And that’s another line…

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