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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CCC193: And All the Land Was Tidy and Paved

Posted on July 21, 2022 by crispina kemp

It all began one hot summer.

The grasses browned and crisped; people trod the dried grasses and rubbed them away.

Next year the grasses tried to grow but…you know how it goes.

Two hot and dry summers later, the parish council said, “Let’s pave the area, it doesn’t grow grass and the wind is eroding it.”

Where had been earth, where had been grass, now was concrete.

That autumn the rain never stopped. Rain, rain, rain. Five years of rain all in two months, they said.

But concrete doesn’t absorb in the way of grasses grown in earth. And so the flood began.

In the aftermath of the “Beast from the East”

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #193

Posted on July 20, 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: Butterflies, Grasses, and Flowers

Posted on July 19, 2022 by crispina kemp

Some of the details from our marshland walk (22nd June 2022). Hope you enjoy

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I suspect this Tortoiseshell butterfly is laying its eggs on this nettle. We saw several in repose on nettles

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Not all butterflies are immediately visible…

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

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Sunday Picture Post: The Back Way

Posted on July 17, 2022 by crispina kemp

Picking up from where we left it last week. We’ve walked Breydon Bank, now for the return walk at “the back” of the grazing marshes.

A farm track takes us across the marshland, to the outskirts of the small village of Burgh Castle…

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We welcome the cooling breeze that whips unhindered across this land. These horses welcome it too

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The track becomes a lane through wooded land…

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…where foxglove grow in amazing abundance…

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After a short run of road, we’re onto a footpath that takes us through arable land (and back into the heat)..

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Looking across the barley to the distant northern rim of Breydon Water..

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Here used to be grazing marsh, here it used to flood in winter, here are the same drainage channels as we saw on the marshland

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The last mile or so takes us along the edge of those grazing marshes, only a drainage channel and a fringe of trees separate us. The white tower on the horizon is the Water Tower (a reservoir) at Caister-on-Sea, north of Great Yarmouth

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From here we’re onto a busy road for the rest of the walk into Gt Yarmouth. But we pass a retail park on the way and stop for coffee.

Hope you’ve enjoyed. Don’t forget to check ont Tuesday Treats for flowers and winged things seen on the way.

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The Power of Attraction

Posted on July 16, 2022 by crispina kemp

Buddleia: 8th July 2022 

Buddleia isn’t nicknamed the Butterfly Bush without good reason. Usually its spires are alive with feeding butterflies. But cos I wanted to take the photo…none.

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

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Braving the Winds

Posted on July 16, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd Dec 2021

It started with a clang
A boom and a bang
White blankets wrapped around
A flood washed the ground
Green began to grace the trees
Braving the winds that iced the leaves
The sun rose strong though ragged and torn
And a new year was born

46 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Year

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CCC192: Lady in Red

Posted on July 14, 2022 by crispina kemp

She rises alone from her bed
An ancient lady in a skirt of red
Brought to these shores by a people long since dead
Amongst grains of wheat and barley for their bread
Mother of millions, and millions fed
Poppy to this tilled land is wed.

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