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CCC184: The Border Trench

Posted on May 19, 2022 by crispina kemp

It took one hundred men one hundred years to dig out the border trench one hundred feet deep.

But that was one thousand years ago.

Time has filled it with silt and drift. Today it took me less than ten clicks to cross it.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #184

Posted on May 18, 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 and… Things

Posted on May 17, 2022 by crispina kemp

Spring is the best time for wild flowers. Please browse with me what Nature offers us…

6th May 2022

It is the time for apples and pears…

6th May 2022

And May (hawthorn) of course…

6th May 2022

It’s a time for daisies… these are stitchwort

6th May 2022

These too are stitchwort… except that big one. That’s an Ox-Eye daisy

6th May 2022

And we humans aren’t alone in liking daisies…

Female Orange Tip: 6th May 2022

And while we’re talking butterflies…

Speckled Wood: 6th May 2022

Common Comfrey: 6th May 2022

Our two most common wayside comfreys (although I could be wrong with their identification, since there aeveral similar)

Russian Comfrey: 6th May 2022

And while we’re looking at blue flowers, though coming down a bit in size!

Speedwell: 6th May 2022

And keeping it small…

Cranesbill: 6th May 2022

Then on the wet-marshy common… ransoms! (wild garlic)

6th May 2022

Looking like celestial crowns as they hold their flowers over the water

6th May 2022

I hope you enjoyed. Now, let’s see, what I might have for you next week?

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Sunday Picture Post: Happing on Flordon Common

Posted on May 15, 2022 by crispina kemp

Out of nowhere, without the slow build usual of spring, Friday 6th May is going to be hot. Not roasting-hot, not height of the summer-hot, but hot. So fill those water-bottles, pack your sunscreen, and come along with me.

Two buses take us to Long Stratton, a small town on an old Roman road (we’ve been there before, the start of many walks). We head out of town northeastward and happen upon Tharston

6th May 2022

Too soon to take advantage of this seat. As with many Norfolk villages, the church is way-way-way away from the present-day village

6th May 2022

Just to remind us of the month, every hedgerow is white with May blossoms (hawthorn)

6th May 2022

The route is over fields and along little leafy lanes…

6th May 2022

Anyone who knows me knows I’ve a passion for pylons. If we see nothing else this day, still I’d be happy with these

6th May 2022

Twisty-turny country lanes, and sprawling farm buildings…we’re happening upon the next village, Hapton

6th May 2022

More little lanes, and across a pasture with cattle grazing

6th May 2022

And we’re at destination. Flordon Common. Next month (June) this path will be lined with yellow flag (wild iris)

6th May 2022

In centuries past this stream powered several mills on its way to join the river Yare just outside Norwich. How things do change!

6th May 2022

No yellow flags today, too early. Instead the common has turned white with ransom flowers (wild garlic), and oh boy, is that a tantalising smell

6th May 2022

We follow the path kept wide by grazing cattle to rejoin the country lanes at Flordon village. By now the heat has become oppressive. The two miles back to the bus-stop somewhat resembles walking into an oven; I want to return to the shade of the trees

6th May 2022

I hope you enjoyed the walk. I did. But I have to admit, I have a heart problem which makes me hyper-sensitive to heat (doctor says I shouldn’t go out in it but stupid me, I keep going)

Hope you’ll join me again next week. And don’t forget to check out Tuesday Treat for the flowers seen on the way

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Marguerite

Posted on May 14, 2022 by crispina kemp

14th May 2022

Marguerite wasn’t used to this
Crammed together with her sisters
In the nursery
Now she’d been bought
She had the spotlight

21 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Spotlight

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Along The Street

Posted on May 14, 2022 by crispina kemp

6th May 2022

This charming cottage is visible only in the winter, in summer obscured by trees and herbage, as if the seasons play hide and seek with it.

Hide and Seek, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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CCC183: That Was Harry

Posted on May 12, 2022 by crispina kemp

That was Harry
Fishing was his life
Every spare moment
Neglecting his wife
Their 15^th anniversary
She bought him a stove
Asked the local Tesco’s
To deliver his food
Friends asked her
Don’t you get jealous
Of all those fish?
No, she said
For without my Harry
Marriage is bliss

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #183

Posted on May 11, 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

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treat: Flowers, Feathers, Wings and Things

Posted on May 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

A selection of photos taken on my walk 25th April 2022. Hope you enjoy

May blossom: 25th April 2022

(Probably apple): 25th April 2022

Definitely apple: 25th April 2022

Forget-Me-Not: 25th April 2022

Ransoms (wild garlic): 25th April 2022

More ransoms: 25th April 2022

Lords and Ladies: 25th April 2022

Marsh Marigold aka King Cups: 25th April 2022

25th April 2022

Orange Tip butterfly on Lady’s Smock: 25th April 2022

Holly Blue on Ivy: 25th April 2022

Small While on Garlic Mustard: 25th April 2022

Speckled Wood on White Dead Nettle: 25th April 2022

Blue Tit on apple tree: 25th April 2022

Mallard on water! 25th April 2022

And finally, for fungi lovers

Southern Bracket hiding away cos it’s not at its best: 25th April 2022

I do hope you’ve enjoyed. 25th April 2022 was a fantastic walk. I came home with 597 photos. It’s not been easy to select which ones to share with you: I wanted to share them all!

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Bluebell Wood

Posted on May 9, 2022 by crispina kemp

Photos taken 25th April 2022 in Green Hills Woods, Costessey. Feast your eyes. Sorry I can’t share with you the divine scent that filled that wood and made us quite giddy.