CCC206: Poor Polly No-Drawers

Poor Polly No-Drawers couldn’t keep a thread on
Every cloth, large or small, she’d shed
Her coat
Her jacket
Her dress
Her shoes
Her socks
Her vest
And yes, even her drawers
We found her hat on a signpost and following the sign, found Polly
She was feeding chickens with grain from the farmer’s silo.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge # 206

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 Treat: Fungi, Fruits and Nuts

Fungi, fruits, nuts and this… all in autumnal colours

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Hope you’ve enjoyed.

Next week…more fungi. It is the season

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Sunday Picture Post: Gates, Grass and Trees

20th September 2022, we bus to Norwich, then a second bus. To come home we’ll need a third bus, for we’re walking between the bus routes. The walk is along country lanes

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Along the lanes gates fail to enclose fields of rusty docks and grasses

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Some gates fail to enclose private woods

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The lane is lined with trees that hold mistletoe high into the sky

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The lane takes us through a village. More gates, these into gardens, these more secure

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A footpath takes us out of the village…

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and delivers us onto another lane

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Where there’s an ivy-bound gate. Not sure this one would open

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The gate to this field was secure

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Here’s a hefty, hearty tree…

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And another gate… though our route takes us to right of this

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The last gate…

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And that’s all for today… please join me again next Sunday when we find water birds on a misty morn

 

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These Wicked Cramps

image by Rafael Neddermeyer on Pixabay

Wicked cramps are gripping my legs
Grampa says it’s because I lack magnesium
And that’s why the accompanying restless jifling
But that doesn’t answer this raging thirst
Nor yet the intermittent vomiting
Grandma says to dispose of that
Not to let anyone touch it
To wash their hands
To not pass it on
She says this isn’t the common collywobbles
But the highly infectious
Potentially lethal
Cholera morbus


68 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Collywobbles

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Are We Too Early?

20th September 2022

I offer no explanation; those with eyes to see, will see 😉​

Trick or Treat, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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It’s Not Too Late

As any writer will tell you, there’s no such thing as too many beta readers. They are the most valuable, treasured part of the writing process. So if you’ve been toying, but yet undecided, there is still time.

Alsalda Bear

When a people arrive from overseas the changes they bring allow Detah to grasp the future she believed was denied her – if she has the courage to stand against her family. Meanwhile there’s a mystery to be solved.

This is mythic fantasy, set in a mythic Late Neolithic Western Europe.

Interested? https://crispinakemp.com/contact-me/

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CCC205: 10,000 Fairy Lights

There had been sightings, but none around here – they’d been mostly in the south. So imagine our astonishment when the field ahead of us lit up like 10,000 fairy lights.

After two years of darkness, the sun had found a way through the thick layer of volcanic dust!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #205

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 Treat: An Autumnal Miscellany

Berries, fungi, colourful leaves… a miscellany of such things as these. Enjoy…

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That’s all for now folks. More next week…

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