Crimson’s Creative Challenge #222

Posted on February 8, 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: Dingies, Boats and Yachts

Posted on February 7, 2023 by crispina kemp

Southwold 12th January 2023, a world of boats… which just happen to be one of my photographic passions. And so, happy to share these with you

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Aren’t they just beautiful, such elegant lines, even those that have seen better days.

That’s all for now folks.

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Sunday Picture Post: A Grey Day Down South

Posted on February 5, 2023 by crispina kemp

12th January and the weather forecast isn’t encouraging. Overcast and windy. But we board a bus to the next coastal town to south of us (Lowestoft) where we catch another bus…to the next coastal town to the south of there. Southwold. Please enjoy these photos of the day’s excursion…

St Edmund’s Church. I’ve a fondness for St Edmund, our patron saint before St George replaced him.

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Adnams Brewery: Adnams and Southwold are synonymous! I love the smell of malted barley but my walking partner (my daughter) cannot abide it. Tastes!

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Yep, that’s the lighthouse

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And down to the promenade where the beach huts line up as if on parade. No sunbathing today

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We head down to River Byth – not a big river – through what to us is familiar marshland. A check back over our shoulders to the water tower and golf course

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At the river’s mouth…hints of how windy!

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This is a fishing port, although it’s also home to pleasure yachts

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Fresh fish, shrimps, crabs and lobsters…

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Saying goodbye to the Blyth, we head back into town…

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Sorry, we disturb the egret with our chatter

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A last look across the marshland before we seek a fish-and-chip shop in town for our lunch, and then the bus home.

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Hope you enjoyed this walk. Shame about the weather. For me, the highlight was the boats…but I’m leaving them for Tuesday Treats!

 

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Sunshine Yellow

Posted on February 4, 2023 by crispina kemp

Cromer, 27th January 2023

Amongst the mostly blue fishing boats on Cromer beach the twin-hulled Boy Max grabbed my eyes

Eye-catching, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

Below, a shot of the mostly blue fishing boats

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Listen to Me

Posted on February 4, 2023 by crispina kemp

Image by Simone Vom Feld

Don’t speak to me of your spending-spree
Nor your vacation by the sea
Truth, my dear, I fail to see
What reasons for your fanciful glee
Overspent
The bank’s not going to relent
They’ll charge you double
Their fees will cause you trouble
Paying that will burst your bubble
I ought to spank you hard
Like the time you spray-painted the yard
Listen to me
Shepherd your money, that’s the key

71 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Key

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Friday Fungi: The Finale!

Posted on February 3, 2023 by crispina kemp

Alas, my fungi archives are empty, and so this must be the last of the Friday Fungi feature (until autumn). That’s not to say the occasional fungus won’t sneak into the Sunday or Tuesday posts. So please do enjoy these shots from Smockmill Common, 28th November 2022

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I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the fungi that help brighten up the wet autumn days…

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CCC221: On Church Parade

Posted on February 2, 2023 by crispina kemp

Regimental colours
On Church Parade
Spirits flagging

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #221

Posted on February 1, 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: Fowls and Tails

Posted on January 31, 2023 by crispina kemp

3rd January at Whitlingham Country Park, the usual wildfowl…

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And catkins, wonderfully early

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Providing us with sun though the sun wasn’t there!

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Old Man’s Beard aka Wild Clematis

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Oh yes, and some fungus

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Hope you enjoyed. Something totally different next week!

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Sunday Picture Post: Water, Water, Rain and Lake

Posted on January 29, 2023 by crispina kemp

3rd January 2023 we catch the bus to Norwich and alight on the outskirts. We’re heading to Whitlingham Country Park. Forecast says rain. But what the heck, there’s a cafe here.

Here used to be a summer retreat for the monks at Norwich cathedral…

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The lake is much used by those who enjoy messing about on the water…

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I don’t know what’s kept in these red containers, but I love it’s wing-like canopy

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The lake is separated from the River Yare by a berm the width of a footpath

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The train to Great Yarmouth crosses the river…

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Looking out across the lake, wishing the sun would shine

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A place to sit. A shame it’s so cold. But the sun’s finally shining

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The almost continuous rain of late has resulted in extensive puddles!

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Looking the length of the lake…and the sun’s gone in and it’s raining

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Heading back along the other side of the lake…where the cafe sits!

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The last photo, for the rain now pelted down!

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And that was our day out. A coffee while we waited for the rain to stop (which it didn’t) and back to the bus stop

Hope you enjoyed

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