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Sunday Picture Post: Stormy Skies

Posted on January 8, 2023 by crispina kemp

9th December 2022, we hoped to catch the sun as she rose out of the sea. But it wasn’t to be. Instead, we caught some wonderful clouds which I now share with you.

9th December 2022

In the early hours the sanderlings race up and down the beach as the waves roll in and out…

9th December 2022

But looking further out…shame about the lack of light

9th December 2022

It’s only a pup. Mum’s further out

9th December 2022

No visible sun, but her rays colour the clouds

9th December 2022

Moving away from the shore, we head into the dunes

9th December 2022

Just two of the turbines out on the sandbank. A great distance, but this is on zoom

9th December 2022

These clouds remind me of the Sistine Chapel ceiling; I expect to see a hand reaching out!

9th December 2022

The wind-farm…

9th December 2022

With the sun finally put in an appearance, I became a “beach photographer”. See Tuesday Treats!

That’s it. Hope you enjoyed.

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Life Returns

Posted on January 7, 2023 by crispina kemp

3rd Jan 2023

The day was dull, not much sign of life, even the wildfowl were scarce. But…the catkins were out!!!

Celebrate Life, the first title from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

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The Wizard from the Bosphorus

Posted on January 7, 2023 by crispina kemp

image by Jim Cooper on pixabay

He was a Turk, a wizard from the Bosphorus
His spells, we all agreed, sounded totally monotonous
Ponderous, not at all sonorous
In a tongue that was to us quite barbarous
But alas—alas!—he’d spotted us
It seemed the wizard wanted us
We were, he said, to be his hostages
Bait, he said, to catch a hippopotamus
Ridiculous, we said
It would be far less preposterous
To use us to catch a horned rhinoceros

75 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Preposterous

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Friday Fungi

Posted on January 6, 2023 by crispina kemp

9th December we took an easy option and walked the beach and dunes through to the next village. We hoped to catch a amazing sunrise. Oh well, that didn’t happen. But we found an array of fungi. Btw, those small icy crystals, that’s hail! Enjoy

9th December 2022

I love our dunes community. Hope you enjoyed them too.

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CCC217: Angels

Posted on January 5, 2023 by crispina kemp

“So graceful, the swans. And faithful to each other,” my companion remarked as we watched them at their evening ablutions.

“Psychopomps,” I said.

“What’s one of those when it’s at home?”

I laughed at her expression. “It’s the soul’s guide to the Land of the Dead.”

“To heaven?” she asked and crossed herself. “You’re saying they’re angels?”

“The Land of the Dead’s in the high northern lands, where the angels dance amongst the coloured lights.”

“The aurora?”

“The aurora,” I agreed.

“And that’s why we must never kill a swan?”

I nodded, linked our arms, and continued our walk. The sun was setting over the marshland, the old mills silhouetted. We’d come here to watch it.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #217

Posted on January 4, 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: A Medley of Metallic Tones

Posted on January 3, 2023 by crispina kemp

Photos from our walk on 28th November 2022

28th November 2022

That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed!

I still have the photos taken on two walks in December 2022. Thereafter…I wonder what I’ll find in the coming year.

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2022 A Year in Photos

Posted on January 2, 2023 by crispina kemp

Fifty-two photos submitted on Saturdays from the list of titles Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek, how do I choose just 12, one per month? It wasn’t easy. For the full 52 pics See Here

22nd January: Pretty Little Things

19th February: Abstract

17th March: Tickled Pink

16th April: Feathers

7th May: My Happy Place

25th June: Tradition

9th July: Water Water

27th August: Fruit

10th September: Time to Play

22nd October: Own Title/Play-Away

12th November: Tranquil

17th December: Golden Opportunity

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A BIG THANK YOU

Posted on January 1, 2023 by crispina kemp

To all my readers, past, present & future, I’d like to say a big BIG THANK YOU.

I send love & good cheer to you and yours at this turning of the year

For all my books viewauthor.at/crispinakemp

Posted in Fantasy Fiction, Mythic Fiction, On Writing | Tagged Fantasy Fiction, Learning to Fly, Mythic Fantasy, Roots of Rookeri, The Spinner's Game | Leave a comment

Sunday Picture Post: An Uncommon Common

Posted on January 1, 2023 by crispina kemp

28th November, a densely misty morning, we bus into Norwich and out again, to Newton Flotman on the old Roman Road to London. But this isn’t our destination.