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Gold on a Misty Morning

Posted on December 17, 2022 by crispina kemp

14th November 2022

The day is misty, autumnal colours muted. But here is a gorse bush with its mist-dripping flowers. What a way to brighten the day

Golden Opportunity, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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When Menopause Calls

Posted on December 17, 2022 by crispina kemp

image by Erika Wittlieb on pixabay

“I’m hot,” she said and moved away.

But away from his heat she was cold.

“Come cuddle,” he said, and she returned to his arms.

But a few minutes of that and she was too hot and again moved away only, again, to feel uncomfortably cold.

“Come here,” he beckoned, his warm arms open and inviting.

But a few minutes and again she moved away.

“Heck, why can’t you find the right place, always moving? What’d you call that?”

“Perpetual dynamic equilibrium?” she said.

84 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Perpetual

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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 16, 2022 by crispina kemp

Another Friday…and loads more fungi, these found at Fritton Woods on 14th November

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And the stars of the day…

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These are just a few of the fungi found that day. I’m saving the rest for so this feature can continue beyond the fungi season

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CCC214: Hey-Ho!

Posted on December 15, 2022 by crispina kemp

Hey-ho, hey-ho
Across that tree we go
We’ve heard the bell’s brassy chime
Telling us it’s now school time
So put away that muddy ball
And you be careful you don’t fall!

Inspired by my father’s memory. There used to be stepping stones here when he was at the village school. He remembers the kids kicking around a ball and waiting for the school bell to call. I wonder how many times they arrived in class with wet feet!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #214

Posted on December 14, 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: Wood Carving

Posted on December 13, 2022 by crispina kemp

A treat with a difference. In days gone by felled trees were used in a number of useful ways, most now replaced by plastics. So the timbers are left for Nature to dispose of. Meanwhile they provide homes for wildlife…and the material for would-be sculptors! On our walk of 7th November through East Hills Woods, Costessey, we saw so many wood carvings.

Wow! Look! Someone’s provided us with a place to sit. A shame it’s too early for lunch

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And then this scene greets us…

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A close up… oops, the dragon seems to be munching on a hapless knight!

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And here’s another

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This one looks like a snake, and yet it has legs. A lizard, then?

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No mistaking this one! I love it’s tongue

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Looks like this one’s coming out of the ground. Is it a burrowing dragon?

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The last of the dragons, they’ve met their end at the end of the woods

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Love this little wood-gnome

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I’ve featured this before, but it has to be included. Child-sized table and chairs

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And a whole array of wood-gnomes providing stools for child-sized botties!

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Hope you enjoyed. It was a little different, and fascinating to see

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Sunday Picture Post: The Wooded Hills of Costessey

Posted on December 11, 2022 by crispina kemp

Before I moved to the coast, I had only to open my door and stroll to be amongst these wooded hills. Now (7th November) we bus into Norwich and bus out to Costessey. But it’s worth it…

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Photos taken just a month ago yet the trees were still so vividly green!

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Overlooking the River Tud valley AND being at the end of a terminal moraine provides the woodland with plenty hills!

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Those hills have preserved the trees, ensuring the land wasn’t taken in for grain-growing

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Out of the woods and down the lane a way, we cross the River Tud and detour along its bank where willows hold sway

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Now we’re over the river, it’s not a long walk to the next wooded hill

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We’re heading now to what used to be a common

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Being on gravel and sand, the parish council would set those claiming Poor Law aid to quarrying. Those quarries now have flooded and the land around them grown some trees…

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I have a love of these pools; like some enchanted place

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An earlier attempt to rain now become worthy of the word. But that’s fine cos we’re now heading home, another two buses.

Hope you enjoyed

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One Day in Summer

Posted on December 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd June 2022

Clear Skies, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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Beware the Teddy Bear

Posted on December 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

When goodbye you waved
Deep into my heart you engraved
A pain beyond compare
With a message to beware
Of fast-typing Teddy Bears

23 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Engrave

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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 9, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th November we returned to the village that had spawned us. Here are two long-established woodlands and a more recent area of woodland pools. Altogether ample fodder for the cameras. Here are a few of the fungi found. Enjoy