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CCC199: Jumbled Sail

Posted on September 1, 2022 by crispina kemp

So this is what’s meant by a “jumbled sail”? But they’re all motor cruisers. Though I wouldn’t mind a cheap “one-off” at a fiver. What do you mean, prices start at £500?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #199

Posted on August 31, 2022 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: Fruits of an Unplanned Walk

Posted on August 30, 2022 by crispina kemp

Monday 22nd August, the weather turns cool enough for me to risk a short walk…2 or 3 miles upriver. The riverside hedges are fantastically full of fruit

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The view across the river with the wide skies for which this part of Norfolk is renowned

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Butterflies flit in great numbers. And occasionally oblige me with a photo op!

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Autumnal sights…

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In a damp depression of the land there is a pond where, if you’re very quiet…

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Oops! I’ve been sighted…

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That’s all for now. I’ll see what I can find for you next week

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Seaside Rendevous

Posted on August 28, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd Oct 2021

There’s a Rhapsody the whole world knows
Maybe not all the words, but how the chorus goes
We can’t refrain from singing along
This most unlikely opera-styled song
But who pays mind to the other tracks?
What of the shark with the fin on his back?
My personal favourite is ‘39
A May-penned song about space-travel and time
“In the land our grandchildren knew”
And I know all about a Seaside Rendezvous
Living by the sea, as I do
That’s where I met the Love Of My Life in ’83
Never wed, just Good Company

95 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Opera

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Sunday Picture Post: Morning Mist on the Marshes

Posted on August 28, 2022 by crispina kemp

We haven’t managed a proper hike again this week. But that’s okay cos there are photos left from 22nd April 2022. Hope you enjoy…all this mist might help cool us on these hot summer days

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Early morning in spring, the birds are visible and vocal

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Some I capture easier/better than others

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But I don’t give up

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And I’m rewarded…

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Turning away from Breydon Water, the mist still lies thick on the common

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Bejewelling the reeds…

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The rising sun gilds all it touches

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Wide view of the marshes. I’m heading to that ridge

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For a while I rejoin the path beside Breydon Water

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And receive a wonderful surprise…bluebells are not native to this environment!

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Turning now to cross the marshes, back to civilisation…the mist is lifting

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It’s a private road giving access to the grazing marshes. But me with my feet and my camera do no damage

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And that’s all folks. I’m hoping to have fresh photos for you next week

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Fruits of Summer

Posted on August 27, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd August 2022

I don’t have a positive id on these. But they seem too big to be sloes, and too small to be domestic plums. So I’m thinking they’re bullace, which is a wild damson.

Whatever the actual prunus species, it’s a fruit, and another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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CCC198: Casper My Friendly Ghost

Posted on August 25, 2022 by crispina kemp

Casper was a lad of seven when he entered Greyfriars Priory.
He lived his days in the granary checking in the sacks of grain
And checking them out again
He petted the granary cat
Who ate the rats and mice and soon grew fat
But day arrived when Casper died
No one mourned, no one cried
The friars took his body away
Put it into a boat and ferried it downriver
To the sea
But his spirit they left
To haunt me

Until a year ago I lived at the back of those houses in a place built in 1603 on the ruins of Greyfriars Priory. There was a “presence” who I named Casper.  This is to honour him.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #198

Posted on August 24, 2022 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: In an English Country Garden

Posted on August 23, 2022 by crispina kemp

No wild flowers today. Instead, a selection of shots over two days in my garden. Enjoy…

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Photos taken as a record of my first year with this garden. Compare photo below, taken last year during the clearance of a forest of sycamore *saplings*

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That’s all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed

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