13th May 2023, lunch in the churchyard at Halvergate, sitting beside a wonderful rosebush. I just have to share!
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And then there’s the rash of spring fungi…
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Brackets exist all year round but they swell quite delightfully in the rain…
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And after the rain, up crops all kinds of fungi
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Hope you enjoyed these, you fungi fanatics!
13th May, after many days of persistent heavy rain we take a chance and walk the “wetlands” from Acle to Halvergate, and back.
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The old parish of Tunstall has diminished much in size and now is combined with Halvergate. The village sign gives the spellings as recorded in Domesday Book
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Outskirts of the village, this wonderful barn conversion
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With an ancient tractor. Was it already decayed into the soil at time of conversion? It makes for a different garden ornament!
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A taste of the village!
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Lunch in the churchyard, then returning by way of Tunstall…where the former telephone box is now the village bring-and-borrow library
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Tunstall church, bedecked with blossoms
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Evidence of the rain… puddly muddy farmyard!
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And heading back now to the grazing marsh, knowing full well it’s going to wet and muddy
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The Fleet overflows…
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Yep!
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And here the cuckoo calls to let us know it really is spring!
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To avoid the last stretch of muddiness we take a track back to the village… umph, more water, more mud!
But it was good a walk. Hope you enjoyed. Tuesday Treat includes… tra-la-la… fungi!!!!
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The sun was suddenly bright; I had to reduce the glare. Happy Poppy, popping
Dazzling, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week
Image by Sabine van Erp on Pixabay
Tired
Doris slumped down on the sofa
Coat still worn
Shoes kicked off
Tired
Too tired even to yawn
Yet she yawned the same
Tired
And she’d still the supper to cook
Had she no microwave meals?
She was too tired to look
Tired
Ever since she retired.
48words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Tired
Three Separate Stories, One United Land
Alsaldic Lands Trilogy charts its rise and fall through the lives of the people who made it great, and destroyed it
Book One ON SALE NOW
You know how it is, as soon as you throw something away, you need it. For me, it was the twenty years of notes taken from archaeological reports that covered every Eurasian country. But they were gathering dust. And I’d made no use of them. And I was moving.
Regret came the following year while walking the Mendips in Somerset, and a story began to form in my head.
I returned home and began again on the research. It was as well that I did for so much more was now known.
In 2005 I submitted a synopsis and three sample chapters to an agent. Almost the same day I was rushed into hospital with a virus that had inveigled its way into my brain. Its effect was much like a computer virus, it broke my connections. Result, I lost aspects of language.
But again, that was probably for the best. For while relearning language I also learned “how to write fiction”.
That story, begun in my head while walking the Mendips, submitted and returned with need of revisions, then simmered until I was ready to give it its final form.
And here it is.
Available as of 10th June as e-book and paperback.
Book Two follows later this summer
Lonely tree
Emerging from the mists of time to meet with me
You are ancient while I am young
Your years are numbered, mine just begun
What advice for me, what can you say
To help me face this life, come what may?
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:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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
13th May 2023, Acle to Halvergate, so many flowers all vying for my camera to snap their pics. Now to decide which ones to show you. I hope you approve the selection…
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And finally, my favourite. Lords and Ladies
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There were fungi too. But I’m leaving them till next week.
Hope you enjoyed.
13th May dawned bright and dry after a week of persistent heavy rain. We discussed, shall we change our plans to walk Acle to Halvergate and back, which involved crossing Acle grazing marsh. Nah, we’d take a chance on finding dry footing.
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The walk begins at Damgate Carr, a wet woodland on outskirts of Acle. The path is muddy but not impassable.
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And it’s great to see everything greening!
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I’ll admit, to reach this far did require full concentration! But, hey, here it’s walkable
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Beside us the Fleet is running high…
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So too the channels that drain the marsh…
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Any slight degree of warmth has the marshes steaming…
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We’re through the worst of it (mud, water-run grasses, overflown channels). Oh, but now the sun has left us!
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I love canola fields, such a welcome colour this time of year…
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Look! A proper road. I do hope we don’t meet a tractor…
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Talking of which, here’s some very old tractor-houses…
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The day has turned bleak but we trundle on…
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We’re now on the outskirts of the village of Halvergate. I love this place, the distant vista. Beyond that mist is the North Sea. We’re standing on the one-time beach of the long ago “Great Estuary”.
And that’s where we’re leaving it for this week. Too many photos to cram into one post. Second half next week! See you then.
