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Sunday Picture Post: Sun, Sky and Sea

Posted on February 12, 2023 by crispina kemp

After a month of mostly slab-grey sky, 27th January promised to be sunny. We take a bus to Norwich, and another to Cromer on the North Norfolk Coast. Here’s some of the photos from our day out. Enjoy…

Cromer Pier, famous for its theatre

27th January 2023

Yes, this is a North Sea surfer…

27th January 2023

While it’s the perfect day for a stroll along the prom, we’ve decided to go visit the lighthouse up on that hill. Please come with us…

27th January 2023

A backward look…

27th January 2023

Looking back to Beeston Stump, the highest place in Norfolk (cos we’re a mostly flat county)

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Looking down…

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Looking back…

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Looking ahead…

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Destination…

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Hope you enjoyed. We certainly did

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Huh?

Posted on February 11, 2023 by crispina kemp

Cromer 27th January 2023

It is, of course, a landing place for an air-sea rescue helicopter

Pick a Letter, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

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To My Would-Be Valentine

Posted on February 11, 2023 by crispina kemp

Image by Jill Wellington on Pixabay

Oh would-be lover, I entreat
No more of your rough-hewn poems without meat
I tire of this naïve talk of the moon
And how you swoon
It’s altogether too jejune

30 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Jejune

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CCC222: Happy Moving Day

Posted on February 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

Micky the Robo-Crab
Grown too big for his shell
Beseeched the ship’s carpenter to craft him a fitted crib

Oh happy Micky Robo-Crab
Into his new shell he crept

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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

12th January 2023

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.

12th January 2023

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

12th January 2023

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

12th January 2023

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

12th January 2023

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

12th January 2023

Fresh fish, shrimps, crabs and lobsters…

12th January 2023

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

12th January 2023

Sorry, we disturb the egret with our chatter

12th January 2023

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

12th January 2023

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

27th January 2023

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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