Monday Flyers

Posted on August 21, 2023 by crispina kemp

Butterflies from our walk 17th July 2023…

17th July 2023 

The blackberries were certainly a draw for the butterflies along the way. Here’s a Comma and a Meadow Brown

17th July 2023 

17th July 2023 

Red Admiral momentarily at rest…

17th July 2023 

A pretty Small Copper, our first sighting!

17th July 2023 

The Gatekeeper!

17th July 2023 

And a small white; this is the one most often seen in gardens…

17th July 2023 

A Large Tortoiseshell, not in great abundance this year…

17th July 2023 

Gatekeeper. Along with the Meadow Browns, these were everywhere, dancing in the air, refusing to settle to allow us a pic…

17th July 2023 

This Comma has come down to earth to allow me the chance to focus…

17th July 2023 

More blackberries, this time attracting Meadow Browns…

17th July 2023 

And that flashy Red Admiral…

Hope you enjoyed. Flowers tomorrow

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Sunday Picture Post: The Old Ways

Posted on August 20, 2023 by crispina kemp

In days of old when women were bold and drove their chariots to stir their tribes… yea, 17th July 2023, we’re in Boudica country – Saxlingham, a few miles south of Venta Icenorum. Please, join us as we head away from Pye Road (a Roman construction, now A140)…

17th July 2023 

Where Fairfield Lane meets the Roman road…

17th July 2023 

Few houses, small-holdings and farm buildings is all…

17th July 2023 

This is gently rolling countryside…

17th July 2023 

Mixed farming is the norm here. Sheep this side…

17th July 2023 

Grain to t’other…

17th July 2023 

We turn off the lane, to pass through a farm yard…

17th July 2023 

The farmer’s house, pretty in pink…

17th July 2023 

Keeping an eye on the clouds. Thunder is forecast…

17th July 2023 

Ah, relief to be out of the sun. I’ve a strong belief this is the continuation of the road that runs from Venta Icenorum (Caister St Edmunds) to Saxlingham but it was left to be a greenway when parishes were told to metal their roads…

17th July 2023 

Locally known as Mud Hole…and I have passed this way when it’s been deep in water. Yet on an old map, ca.1891, a building is marked close by, by name of Mud Hall. Hmm.

17th July 2023 

And of course, Saxlingham Thorpe church ruins, dear to my heart…

17th July 2023 

Looking across the fields to the church at Saxlingham Nethergate…

17th July 2023 

And hurrying now for the bus before that cloud bursts!

Hope you enjoyed. See also Monday Flyers and Tuesday Flowers.

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Fun Fungus Find

Posted on August 19, 2023 by crispina kemp

16th August 2023

This Shaggy Inkcap is a tad early in appearing, but these things happen After The Rain, which is the title I’m claiming from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week 

And that gives me another line on the Photo Bingo Card

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My Speciality

Posted on August 19, 2023 by crispina kemp

Image: 51581 on Pixabay

It is my undeniable
Speciality
In each and every
Eventuality
To act with irrefutable
Impartiality.

15 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Impartiality

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CCC249: I Told The Man

Posted on August 17, 2023 by crispina kemp

I told the man
He’s the one to blame
Ought to hang his head in shame
Mend that hole, I said, mend it now
Do you want us to lose our precious cow?
Don’t be ridiculous, Ma’am, he said
A cow won’t pass through there, not even its head!
A regular cow, a regular cow, maybe not
But mine are fairy cows and them’s little tots!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #249

Posted on August 16, 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: Petals and Wings

Posted on August 15, 2023 by crispina kemp

Photos from our visit to Scarning Fen 12th July 2023. Enjoy.

12th July 2023

For me, this Meadowsweet is the epitome of wetland flora!

12th July 2023

Bindweed, the terror of every gardener. But it does look beautiful clambering over fences, the sun shining through those petals…

12th July 2023

Vetch is another clamberer of fences…

12th July 2023

Thistles need no explanation. They’re great attractors of bees and butterflies. But no posing today

12th July 2023

Woundwort almost lost amongst the ubiquitous willow-herb…

12th July 2023

So many species of trefoil, I’m not sure which this one, but it’s everywhere…

12th July 2023

Toadflax…and bee…

12th July 2023

Can’t resist a lady-bug (Bishy Barny Bees in Norfolk)

12th July 2023

Meadow Brown, playing hide and seek…

12th July 2023

Meadow Brown being showy…

12th July 2023

A skipper and…?bug?…

That’s all for now, folks. More next week. Hope you enjoyed

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SS Nicholas and Withburga and Scarning Fen

Posted on August 13, 2023 by crispina kemp

12th July, the day seemed fair. We hopped on a bus, then on another. We were heading into Central Norfolk, to East Dereham, on the outskirts of which lies Scarning Fen. We’ve visited before, but early in the year. The sun was shining! Yay!

12th July 2023

St Nicholas church in the grounds of which…

12th July 2023

St Withburga’s Well. For history geeks, she was youngest daughter of Anna, King of the East Angles.

12th July 2023

Welcome shade…

12th July 2023

The fen greets us. No shade here…

12th July 2023

Disappointed at the lack of vistas, but this, in all directions, is how it looks!

12th July 2023

That sameness is cut across by water channels. A true taste of the Fens…

12th July 2023

12th July 2023

There’s a much-overgrown path that runs alongside this. We push our way through…

12th July 2023

To find fantastic variety of water and few plants, most of which I cannot name…

12th July 2023

And the familiar water forget-me-knots…

12th July 2023

More familiar, hemp agrimony…

12th July 2023

And meadowsweet…

12th July 2023

These brambles protected a special plant…

12th July 2023

Orchids, growing undisturbed in a shady glade…

12th July 2023

A last look back before we leave…

See Tuesday’s post for more flowers and…shh, butterflies!

Hope you enjoyed

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Swan River

Posted on August 12, 2023 by crispina kemp

7th August 2023

It really was quite relaxing to walk alongside the river, with the ducks and the swans and the geese (not in shot). Calm, one might say, which is the title I’m claiming from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week 

And that gives me another line on the Photo Bingo Card

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Not the Solution to Evolution

Posted on August 12, 2023 by crispina kemp

image: Leonhard Niederwimmer on Pixabay

Cut the carbs and oxygen too
What I mean is the CO2
They claim it’s the solution
To our continued evolution
No, Dorothea, simple idea
But no panacea
Just as cutting the carbs
Is not the solution
To the pandemic of excess weight distribution.

44 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Panacea

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