Frosties For Breakfast

Posted on February 12, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th February 2022

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

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My Father

Posted on February 12, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th February 2022

My father, born under adventuresome Aries
was hard to please
Unlike Capricorn’s sure-footed mountain-goat.
When he had a great fortune he would gloat
A fortune, note, that we didn’t see
Next day he’d swear he would rather shovel shit in the Isle of Capri.
Mother had two words for him, and I agree
Ambitious, capricious

55 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Capricious

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CCC170: So I said to him

Posted on February 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

So I said to him, I said, I can’t work no ruddy faster.

And he said, all hoity cos he’s the gaffer, he said, you’ll work as fast as I say.

So I said to him, cos I weren’t having that, I said, they’re building another church down the road, I’ll go work on that.

And he said, all red in the face, he said, you walk off this job and I’ll make sure you’ll never work again.

Well, I’d had enough of him. So I said, you can take your threats and stuff them up your anus.

And he said…well, you can see what he said by what he’s had done to me. Stuck here as a ruddy gargoyle for ever more.

St Andrews Church at Kirby Bedon, Norfolk

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #170

Posted on February 9, 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 Treat: Feathered Fun

Posted on February 8, 2022 by crispina kemp

Photos from our walk on Thursday 27th January. The day started overcast, so apologies if the photos don’t sparkle.

The blackbird, nature’s alarm clock…

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And the mallard, nature’s mocker, for their quack sure does sound like mocking laughter

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The shy little moorhen, always delighted to get a photo of these…

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From shy to flashy… Spectacle Geese aka Egyptian Geese

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More geese, these the more common grey lag

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Black-headed gulls in winter plumage. Love how they all face the same way…

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The swan needs no introduction…

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An immature swan comes in to land (to water?)…

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Loved this immature’s markings, so distinct, as if it’s been embroidered…

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More swans, more ducks, all of a muddle. What’s the attraction?

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If you hadn’t guessed it, a gent on a bike has thrown them some swan-&-duck food. But the gulls are first to it…

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That’s all folks. Hope you enjoyed. I wonder what we’ll have next week? See you all then

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Sunday Picture Post: Village Life

Posted on February 6, 2022 by crispina kemp

Last week we walked the Yare Valley. Today, we’re back on Norfolk’s mostly flat top, walking the villages (second part of walk 27th January 2022)

Every Norfolk village should have one of these…

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And they all have one of these…

St Andrews, Kirby Bedon: 27th January 2022

Sometimes the church is open and we get to peep inside…

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At Kirby Bedon there are two churches. Alas, St Mary’s has seen better days…

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A village must have a farm. Great sums of money were spent on their barns when the new system of farming (field rotations) came in.

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And all those barns and fields require this…

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But where do the villagers live?

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As we started with a church, so we leave. This is the beautiful but humble church at Hellington…

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And this is it’s ornate and ancient entrance…

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That’s all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed our visit to the villages of Kirby Bedon, Bramerton, Rockland St Mary and Hellington. I pray you’ll join me for Tuesday Treat. I believe last week I promised you some birds.

 

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You Keep Me Hanging

Posted on February 5, 2022 by crispina kemp

27th January 2022

This wonderful lion’s head is a detail from an ornate light fitting. But while the lion is Life, here he is perfectly Still. And so… Still Life, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

27th January 2022

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No worse than the pox

Posted on February 5, 2022 by crispina kemp

image by Christian Dorn on pixabay

The plague, it was said, caused a worldwide flummox
But it was nothing, they said, no worse than the pox
Which pox? Cowpox, chickenpox, swinepox?
Didn’t they know the pox was a killer?
Whether detoxed or vaccinated, nothing could stop this grave-filler.

42 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Flummox

 

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CCC169: Little Jack

Posted on February 3, 2022 by crispina kemp

Jack dusted himself down. His legs were aching, a burn in his calves. But he knew that would ease as soon as he walked. At least he’d made it to here. So much for the nay-sayers.

Oh, you’ll fall, they said. Look how tall it is.

And so it was. It was the mightiest beanstalk he’d ever seen.

He looked around him, stretching his over-worked legs. Now, where was that giant?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #169

Posted on February 2, 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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