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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…

3rd January 2023

And catkins, wonderfully early

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

Old Man’s Beard aka Wild Clematis

3rd January 2023

Oh yes, and some fungus

3rd January 2023

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…

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

The train to Great Yarmouth crosses the river…

3rd January 2023

Looking out across the lake, wishing the sun would shine

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

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

3rd January 2023

The last photo, for the rain now pelted down!

3rd January 2023

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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On the Rising Banks of Wensum Valley

Posted on January 28, 2023 by crispina kemp

7th November 2022

Norfolk is notoriously flat. But we do have rivers and some, especially those rising in the centre of the county, do have noticeable valleys. The Wensum is one such river.

Run For The Hills, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

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I Blame That Op

Posted on January 28, 2023 by crispina kemp

Image by Scott on Pixabay

The world can go spin
The neighbours make whatever their din
The vicar commit his endless sin
Cos I’m telling you, Jimmy
That full frontal lobotomy
Was the very end of me
Until that op I didn’t have this apathy

40 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Prompt: Apathy

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Friday Fungi: Return to Fritton Woods

Posted on January 27, 2023 by crispina kemp

With no new fungi photos, I’m returning to our visit to Fritton Woods on 14th November to show you the photos missed first time around. Enjoy

14th November 2022

and a close up

14th November 2022

That’s all for now, folks. I am running low of fungi photos but I’ve probably enough for another two or three Fridays. So…see you next week.

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CCC220: Of Frost Giants and Wood Elves

Posted on January 26, 2023 by crispina kemp

The wood-elves danced till breaking dawn.

But breaking dawn brought down the frost.

“Too soon!” some few still-sober dancers roared, which to the rushing swirling waters beneath the bridge sounded more like a rustling, less than a whispering.

The frost-giants’ breath claimed the dancing elves, stuck them, frozen, to the stone.

Unable to move, the wood-elves moaned. They had danced too long, frost had come too soon. This was their doom.