The Back Way Around Lound

Posted on June 19, 2022 by crispina kemp

2nd June and the day starts bright. Although it’s a Thursday, thanks to the Queen’s Jubilee, it’s also a bank holiday…which means Sunday bus services. We decide not to go far from home and bus to Hopton, the first village south of Gt Yarmouth and Gorleston.

Hopton Church…

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A few 100 yards and a bramble-guarded footpath bring us to a woodland…

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Through which a gentle stream trickles…

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To drain into a delightful sunlit pool…

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Do not tell me that fairies don’t dwell here

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And to prove this is a fairy tale woodland, here grows foxgloves…

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Out of the woodland and across the fields.

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Here’s where the lettuces grow…

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We emerge into the village of Lound but hurry on. A greenway takes us to Ashby St Mary… more poppies!

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From Ashby church (no village in sight) we veer wide to approach Lound from a NW direction, not taken before though we’ve visited the village many times

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Before we reach the village-proper, we turn onto another way-marked path…

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Up, up a path, threaded between fields…

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We’re on the road back to the buses that’ll take us home

And of course, we stop every few steps to take flower pics… and such (See Tuesday Treats)

 

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Old World Charm

Posted on June 18, 2022 by crispina kemp

1st Aug 2017

Lavinia stared at the email open on her tablet with mouth agape. She didn’t understand the rejection. The agency had commissioned her to photograph the award-winning picturesque village of Saxlingham. She had sent in fifty photos specifically chosen for “old world charm”.

But they didn’t want charm; they wanted “old and abandoned, neglected, decrepit”.

54 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Picturesque

 

 

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The Trapeze Artist

Posted on June 18, 2022 by crispina kemp

13th June 2022

Damselflies were everywhere flitting, tempting and teasing my lens. Then…yes!…this one held still just long enough for me to point and click though not sufficient for me to get a good focus.

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

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CCC188: There’s Gold in Them There Hills

Posted on June 16, 2022 by crispina kemp

“What’s this place then?” Millie glanced back at George, her hiking companion who, although younger always was slower.

George slipped off his backpack and pulled out the map.

“Don’t bother,” Millie said, impatient. “I remember now. It’s that prison I saw marked on the map. Open Prison, I guess that means no high walls.”

“That prison is five miles east of here. This is a water treatment plant.”

“No,” Millie said incredulous, “A water treatment plant does not require this much security. If it’s a water plant then it’s a cover for something.”

“Maybe there’s gold in them there hills,” George mocked.

She shot him a withering look. Then, “Watch out!”

George clambered onto the verge to allow the vehicle to pass. It pulled into the gateway. The gate slowly slid open. High Security Transport, the signage said.

“It’s a prison,” Millie said.

“Or there really is gold in those hills.”

I can’t say for certain that it’s a water treatment plant, but the installation does belong to a water treatment company.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #188

Posted on June 15, 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: Flowers, Flies and Other Beasts

Posted on June 14, 2022 by crispina kemp

Shots from our walk on 28th May 2022. A medley.

If you look closely you’ll see there are two bees…

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Water Lilies and Water Violets…

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Fancy fungi found hiding along the way…

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A grey wagtail; it flitted like a butterfly across the village pond

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A thick-thighed bug settles on a complimentary poppy

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Tutsan in flower and berry

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Dratted bee got into shot!

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Another foxglove, another bee…

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A beef escort across this pasture. They were quite insistent on accompanying us… somewhat closely…

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Blue damselfly…on reed

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A red damselfly? I think so. And bittersweet…

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Guardian of Damgate Carr…

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Fungal brackets, hiding amongst the greenery

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And that’s all. Hope you enjoyed. More photos next week.

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June Flowers

Posted on June 13, 2022 by crispina kemp

Too many flowers from our walk to include in tomorrow’s Tuesday Treat, so here’s the overspill…

Dog Rose: 28th May 2022 

Fuchsia: 28th May 2022 

Bittersweet: 28th May 2022 

Water Violet: 28th May 2022 

Viburnum/Guelder Rose: 28th May 2022 

Dogwood: 28th May 2022 

Ox Eye Daisy: 28th May 2022 

Poppies: 28th May 2022 

Blackberry Bramble: 28th May 2022 

Hope you enjoyed. More flowers…amongst other things…tomorrow

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Sunday Picture Post: Onward to Halvergate

Posted on June 12, 2022 by crispina kemp

28th May we bused to Acle with intent to walk to Halvergate. Last week I shared the photos from the first stage of this walk, Damgate Carr. Now onward across Acle Grazing Marsh to Halvergate.

Out of the woods and onto Weavers Way, long distance path

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The Way takes us alongside the reed-fringed Fleet, a drainage channel, maybe ancient tidal creek for time was when this entire area was an extensive estuary

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All kinds of water weed thrive in the drainage channels

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Weavers Ways wending along

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A drover’s track crosses the Way… Old Man Willow stands guard. But that’s not the way we’re heading

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Weaver’s Way… on and on, now between willows that creak in the wind. A cuckoo calls from the trees, no hope of sighting it

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We slip through a gate. The Way now crosses the grazing marsh. We have cattle for company, the pastures guarded and defined by a grid of drains

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A gap in the hedge shows the agricultural land beyond the marshes, that’s where we’re headed

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Off the grazing marsh and onto the road…

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The road takes us to Tunstall. Despite the parish church is part-ruined, its chancel still serves this very small village

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And here is the village of Halvergate, just its eastern arm

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We walk through the village to the church where we sit in the sudden sun to eat our lunch. Then we turn around and walk back again.

Hope you’ve enjoyed. We’re heading to the Norfolk/Suffolk border next week

 

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The Castle

Posted on June 11, 2022 by crispina kemp

Bungay: 14th March 2022

They were tourists, obvious with their cameras, and the way they looked into every courtyard, down every alley and lane they passed. They made repeated reference to a leaflet.

Finally, they drew level to where I sat with a coffee at a table outside a café. Curious, I couldn’t resist.

“Are you looking for something? Can I help?”

“We’re looking for the castle,” the bearded one said.

“We’re chasing architecture,” the other chuckled.

I spread my hands. “Look around, architecture everywhere.”

“Huh, vernacular architecture,” the bearded one said with disdain.

90 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Vernacular

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A Rose by Any Other Name

Posted on June 11, 2022 by crispina kemp

Rhododendron: 2nd June 2022 

“A flower by any other name would smell as sweet,” said Shakespeare.

Aye, and a rhododendron by any other name would be easier to spell!

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

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