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Tuesday Treats: Flowers, Flyers and Fungi

Posted on April 12, 2022 by crispina kemp

Details seen on the second part of walk 22nd March 2022. Enjoy.

If you’ve seen this week’s Sunday Picture Post, then you’ll know we saw LOTS of daffodils

22nd March 2022

I’d like to tell you what kind of flowers these will be but at this stage I can’t tell. Is it too early for apple?

22nd March 2022

Tutsan: 22nd March 2022

Celandine: 22nd March 2022

Primroses: 22nd March 2022

A white violet… just the one: 22nd March 2022

Violet-blue violets: 22nd March 2022

Plane or Sycamore, not sure: 22nd March 2022

Butterbur: 22nd March 2022

Oxlip or Cowslip? 22nd March 2022

And the promised fungi, still looking good because it’s been so wet

22nd March 2022

Which leaves us with flyers…

Comma: 22nd March 2022

Red legged Partridge: 22nd March 2022

That’s all for this week. Hope to get you more for next week

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Sunday Picture Post: How Green Grows My Land

Posted on April 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

As promised, the second part of our walk to Burlingham Woods, and beyond.

Burlingham Woods were formerly part of Burlingham Hall. And those landowners of late really did like to pretty-up their woods. The plants remain to the delight of us walkers…

22nd March 2022

I love this mini forest, the way the light is catching

22nd March 2022

Beyond the woods…

22nd March 2022

And back on the road to walk back to Acle

22nd March 2022

Hope you’ve enjoyed. More next week

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It’s Plain to See

Posted on April 9, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd March 2022

Is it a bird? Is it a plane… yea, it’s a plane.

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

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Yellow Sausage, You’ll Do

Posted on April 9, 2022 by crispina kemp

image by TheUjulala on pixabay

As a young child I had difficulty articulating words… until I started school and had speech therapy. It was hard work and annoying for a child of five who would rather be outside playing with friends. Three words/phrases I remember caused me the most trouble: “Yellow”, “Sausage” and “You’ll do”, which I pronounced as Werrow, Totidge and Yodel.

57 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Yodel

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Book Review: Roots of Rookeri by Crispina Kemp — Sammi Loves Books

Posted on April 7, 2022 by crispina kemp

Crispina Kemp, historical fantasy author of the five book series, The Spinner’s Game, and Learning to Fly, is about to release another fantastic story, this time, Roots of Rookeri, my review for which you can find below. It’s set for release on 15th April 2022, so add the date to your diary, or follow the link […]
Book Review: Roots of Rookeri by Crispina Kemp — Sammi Loves Books

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CCC#178: All I Have Left

Posted on April 7, 2022 by crispina kemp

We had a fight.
Yea, yea, I know, we’re always fighting, but this was the worst.
I lost it – my patience with him, my tolerance, my everything.
I told him to pack his bag and to go.
And he went.
And he took everything.
Now all I have left is that wall.
I swear, I’m never going to live in a caravan again.

Note for non-UK readers: caravan = trailer

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #178

Posted on April 6, 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: Mostly Flowers

Posted on April 5, 2022 by crispina kemp

I give you some flowers seen on our walk 22nd March… enjoy

Alexanders: 22nd March 2022

Cow Parsley: 22nd March 2022

Grape Hyacinth: 22nd March 2022

Oak Galls: 22nd March 2022

22nd March 2022

Red Dead Nettle with Bee: 22nd March 2022

and with Campion: 22nd March 2022

Black Poplar Catkins: 22nd March 2022

Willow catkins: 22nd March 2022

22nd March 2022

That’s all for now folks. Hope you’ve enjoyed. More next week

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Sunday Picture Post: Bare Brown and Green

Posted on April 3, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd March and a short bus ride takes across the marshes to our starting point, Acle. We’re going to walk to Burlingham Woods, then on a bit further before we turn around. It is a walk in two parts, the first section characterised by the colour brown. Please, do come along.

A misty start…