Stillness

Posted on December 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Breydon Water: 9th Dec 2021

All Is Calm, another title achieved from the list for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.

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My Friend

Posted on December 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Photo by AldoDK on Pixabay

Pavonine says this friend of mine
And thinks she’ll trip me
Defeat me
Mute my words and numb my hand
Ha! Little does she know me.
No country mouse me
No shrinking violet
No parson’s daughter
No penitent whore
No better behaved
Not knowing better than I ought-ta
(Not sure of that line
Neither sure of that friend of mine)
Pavonine
Calling all you Beau Brummels
Who deck your lordships up to the gunnels
Pavonines, bow to this friend of mine

81 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Pavonine

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CCC162: The Parish Eagle

Posted on December 16, 2021 by crispina kemp

Little Robin in the churchyard hiding
What was it the bird found frightening
Was the old vicar sermonising
Or the new organ player improvising

It was the eagle, parish-bought
And in stone realistically wrought
To sit above the south porch-door
That frightened young Robin to his core

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #162

Posted on December 15, 2021 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: Nature Decked for Christmas

Posted on December 14, 2021 by crispina kemp

No more fungi. But Nature provides… like it’s all decked up for Christmas

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And we even have the Christmas star!

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That’s all for now folks. See you next week

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Sunday Picture Post: Last of November Walks (Part 2)

Posted on December 12, 2021 by crispina kemp

22nd November now seems so long ago, but let’s refresh memories. A bus across the grazing marshes take us to Acle where we squelch through Damgate Carr (carr = wet woodland) and over the pastures to join with a dry-ish road (yay!) to Tunstall.

Now to continue. We’re walking on an ancient shore, for where now is marsh used to be the mudflats of a wide estuary

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This farmstead sits like an island in a sea

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And into Halvergate

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Looking out to the marshland. That once was sea.

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There’s now so few inhabitants in Tunstall, its parish has been combined with Halvergate

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At Halvergate church I found mention of present-day relatives of the lady who married my several-times great-grandfather in the late C18th

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Time to turn around and return to Acle…

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Wide skies and fantastical cloudscapes has attracted many artists here

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And back to the pastures where we walk alongside the Fleet

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And back through Damgate Carr where I stop for a moment… unable to resist interesting reflections

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That’s all folks for now.

I have managed to dodge the rain and evade the winds to get out for a hike this week… so I have fresh photos for next Sunday’s Picture Post.

Hope you enjoyed.

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The Smuggler

Posted on December 11, 2021 by crispina kemp

image: Colin Behrens on pixabay

Sonia heaved her relief at passing through customs without being stopped. Now to get out of the airport and find the car.

It was where they’d agreed. She fumbled for her keys, the spares given to her before the trip.

Door unlocked.

And in.

Now to switch facemasks. She tucked the used mask into the glove compartment – along with the five diamonds sewn between the layers.

66 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Smuggle

 

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A Woodland Visitor

Posted on December 11, 2021 by crispina kemp

Wood Pigeon: 6th December 2021

The Wood Pigeon more often perches on hedgerow trees and in woodland. Here it’s perching on my fence (photo taken through my window).

On the Fence, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek by Maria Antonia.

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CCC161: What Was It?

Posted on December 9, 2021 by crispina kemp

“Jamie?” Gerald waved his hand in front of my face.

I slapped it away. “What?”

“Where were you? Lost in a gaze.”

“Looking at the…the tree,” I said, hesitantly.

“Oh, what have you seen? A woodpecker, yea? A squirrel?”

“Er…um…sure, that’s what I saw, yea just…just a bird.”

But it wasn’t a bird. It was…it was…I didn’t know what. An alien? A ghost? An elf? Yea, right, laughable, yea. But what was it?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #161

Posted on December 8, 2021 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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