Tuesday Treats: Riparian Flora and Fauna

Posted on August 2, 2022 by crispina kemp

Photos of flora and fauna seen on last Tuesday’s walk. Usually I group the fauna and separate them from the flora. Not today. Today I give them to you as we encountered them. Enjoy

Surprised to see so many damselflies while we’re still in the heart of the city

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And water plants, even if they are on the far side of the river and not too good focus…

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Bittersweet is everywhere

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As is Traveller’s Joy aka Old Man’s Beard (Clematis vitalba)

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Golden Rod, a garden escapee/wasteland plant

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Rowan is heavy with berry

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Love burdock…

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Yellow water lily just showing its head

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Everywhere, these damselflies…

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And this fungus…I don’t have a name for it but isn’t it bright!

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That’s all for now. I have more for you next week…butterflies, fungi, water lilies…

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Sunday Picture Post: Wending Along the Wensum

Posted on July 31, 2022 by crispina kemp

In case you’ve missed the news, we here in England have had a heatwave. I know it’s not been a patch on temperatures elsewhere, but we’re Brits and we’re not used to it. Worse, some people (me) have medical reasons why we can’t go out in such heat. But last Tuesday (26th July) the Weather God was in benign mood. And so please join me for a gentle stroll along the wending Wensum. Enjoy

The first of the many bridges we’ll cross over the Wensum. It wends, truly…

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A family of swans

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And ducks. Still within the heart of the city, I think these ducks are used to humans feeding them

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Meadowsweet and Great Willow Herb, for me typifies river edges

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When you take a scenic detour beside a river you expect it to be wet underfoot…

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But it’s worth the soggy soil to be beneath the trees, beside the water, on such a hot day as this is turning to be

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Oh look, another bridge! This one’s for foot traffic and cyclists only

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Not the Wensum but a drainage channel…this area was once very swampy. The green on the water is pondweed

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Meadows to cross to rejoin the main track…

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Heading now to the City Boundary…

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Looking down on the Wensum from yet another bridge

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These cows have the right idea, seeking shade to chew the cud. We’re looking for somewhere to sit too, it’s coming on lunchtime.

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We’re only halfway through the walk but I’m saving photos from the second half for next week (forecast is hot again, though not heatwave-hot it’s too hot for me, so no walkies next week. Good job I have plenty of photos from this walk!)

Hope you enjoyed. Hope it helped to keep you cool!

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Bridge Across the Wensum

Posted on July 30, 2022 by crispina kemp

St Crispin’s Bridge, Norwich: 26 July 2022

St Crispin is patron saint of shoemakers. After the collapse of the Norfolk weaving industry, the main employers in Norwich were the shoe factories. Alas, most of those have gone too. But  St Crispin remains…as a road and a bridge.

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

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With This Green Plastic Ring

Posted on July 30, 2022 by crispina kemp

Photo by Victoria Art on pixabay

Timmy waited outside the Girl’s Entrance, his tummy all a flutter. His hands, still damp from their unaccustomed washing, were jammed deep into his pocket.

The rest of her class were out. Where was she? Ah! Here she comes, golden curls in disarray, huge brown eyes bright and alive. Though she walked alone, she was smiling.

“Janey,” he said. “Will you marry me?” And he pulled from his pocket the green plastic ring he’d found in his Jamboree Bag that morning.

She scrunched her nose. “Yes.”

86 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Jamboree

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CCC194: Fall Guy

Posted on July 28, 2022 by crispina kemp

[Trigger Warning]

Tick tock
It’s late o’clock
Meeting my brother at the dock
Injured ego, he’s been defrocked
On a charge of having mocked

Nay, it weren’t like that, he say
T’was all the other way
The flower-ladies came in and gasped
What’s going on they quickly grasped
With skirt round my waist, it weren’t no laugh
Bishop ready with his staff
But Bishop’s the Bishop and who am I?
No career status, I’m the fall guy

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #194

Posted on July 27, 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: Heathland Wings and Things

Posted on July 26, 2022 by crispina kemp

All photos taken on our walk around Mousehold Heath on 4th July 2022. Enjoy

Seed Pods, Gorse: 4th July 2022

Heather & Gorse: 4th July 2022

More Heather & Gorse: 4th July 2022

The birch leaves are early turners: 4th July 2022

Small Copper: 4th July 2022

Small Copper: 4th July 2022

Speckled Wood: 4th July 2022

Comma: 4th July 2022

Gatekeeper: 4th July 2022

Dragonfly: 4th July 2022

Robin: 4th July 2022

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

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Hot Day, Monday in the City

Posted on July 25, 2022 by crispina kemp

Continuing from Sunday, we walk the backways into the city…cos it’s so pretty

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The Adam & Eve, there’s been a beer-serving inn here since 1249 (though not this same building)

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We cut through an overlooked alley…

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Look around you, do…but don’t forget to look up, too

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And out the other end onto a Dickensian street…

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Love Norwich. Hope you liked it too

Don’t miss Tuesday Treats for more photos from this walk

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Sunday Picture Post: Taking the High Road

Posted on July 24, 2022 by crispina kemp

4th July. Sunny. Hot. We didn’t want long hours on a bus. We went to Norwich then walked to Mousehold Heath, the local beauty spot

A riverside walk, a good way to start the day

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The depth of the valley shows the force of the river over the ages

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Cow Tower, a gun emplacement in ages past

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From River Wensum to St James Hill on Mousehold Heath, a noticeable climb! And a fantastic view of Norwich with its city hall, cathedral and so many churches

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Trees. Shade. Bliss.

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Some inhabitants are very old

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Climbing up to the heathland plateau…

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Open, exposed to the sun, the trees here already don their autumnal colours

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A watering hole…great place to sit a while and have lunch

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Alas, time to catch the bus to take us home…

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But there are more photos to come. See Monday, see Tuesday…

Hope you enjoyed

 

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When Daddy Was A Soldier

Posted on July 23, 2022 by crispina kemp

4th July 2022 

This used to be the face of Britannia Barracks back in 1937 when my father joined the army (Royal Norfolks). Now it is the face of Norwich Prison. I remember the military tattoos here with the fantastic military bands…all so long ago now. Yesteryear.

Another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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