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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #178

Posted on April 6, 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

Tuesday Treats: Mostly Flowers

Posted on April 5, 2022 by crispina kemp

I give you some flowers seen on our walk 22nd March… enjoy

Alexanders: 22nd March 2022

Cow Parsley: 22nd March 2022

Grape Hyacinth: 22nd March 2022

Oak Galls: 22nd March 2022

22nd March 2022

Red Dead Nettle with Bee: 22nd March 2022

and with Campion: 22nd March 2022

Black Poplar Catkins: 22nd March 2022

Willow catkins: 22nd March 2022

22nd March 2022

That’s all for now folks. Hope you’ve enjoyed. More next week

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Sunday Picture Post: Bare Brown and Green

Posted on April 3, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd March and a short bus ride takes across the marshes to our starting point, Acle. We’re going to walk to Burlingham Woods, then on a bit further before we turn around. It is a walk in two parts, the first section characterised by the colour brown. Please, do come along.

A misty start…

22nd March 2022

Every year this tree produces oak galls…

22nd March 2022

Here is a plantation of various wild and domestic fruiting trees. Too early for the best of the blossoms, but here there are teasels galore…

22nd March 2022

And birch, budding red with bark of silver

22nd March 2022

Out of the plantation and over the fields. The earth might look bare and brown but there is a slight haze of green, this summer’s grain

22nd March 2022

The only puddle encountered on this first stage of our walk, but it was easily skirted around…

22nd March 2022

And here we encounter the first of the colour, the crimson catkins of the Black Poplar…

22nd March 2022

And pussy willow…

22nd March 2022

And I leave you with this… cos wherever I am, fungi are never far away!

22nd March 2022

That’s all for this week. Next Sunday we’ll do the rest of the walk… and I promise you some green.

Hope you enjoyed

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Whither Shall You Wander

Posted on April 2, 2022 by crispina kemp

22nd March 2022

It was a misty morning when we set out to follow the path that wends through this vale…

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

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CCC177: My Little Pony

Posted on March 31, 2022 by crispina kemp

“I spit on the Romans and spit trebly upon that hill-tribe queen, Caradoc-Bear’s own kin, who handed him over to the emperor’s men, saying she ‘feared Roman retribution elsewise’.”

“Queen Cartimandua?”

“Yeh, her. My little pony.”

Neve didn’t understand the reference but understood the savage tone. Raesan definitely didn’t like her.

Extract taken from Learning to Fly by Crispina Kemp, Interest? Go to mybook.to/LearningToFlyKemp

Posted in Crimson's Creative Challenge, Mythic Fiction, On Writing | Tagged #CCC177, Crimson's Creative Challenge, Learning to Fly | 14 Comments

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #177

Posted on March 30, 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

Posted in Crimson's Creative Challenge, Photos | Tagged #CCC177, Crimson's Creative Challenge, Photo | 12 Comments

Tuesday Treats: The Onward March of Spring Flowers

Posted on March 29, 2022 by crispina kemp

A few floral delights from our walk on 14th March

Churchyard Cherries: 14th March 2022

Violets: 14th March 2022

Bishy Barny Bee (Ladybird): 14th March 2022

Wallflower: 14th March 2022

Pussy Willow…

14th March 2022

Gorse, of course: 14th March 2022

Couldn’t resist this one: Sun Spurge

14th March 2022

And perched atop the tree where we stopped to peck at our packed lunch…

14th March 2022

Hope you enjoyed

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Sunday Picture Post: A Small Suffolk Town

Posted on March 27, 2022 by crispina kemp

Monday 14th March and we’ve a long way to go, nearly 2 hours of sitting on buses just to reach the small Suffolk town of Bungay. The town sits on the banks of the River Waveney, which is one of the three rivers that flow through my home town of Great Yarmouth to join the North Sea.

Looking here at a model of the town’s medieval origins

14th March 2022

Bungay have three churches, although the Catholic Church of St Edmunds is more recent. St Mary’s (below) is a former priory

14th March 2022

The round tower church is named for the Trinity

14th March 2022

Bigod’s Castle (remains of). Hugh Bigod inherited land from his uncle Roger who had fought beside William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy) in 1066 and beyond. But the family backed the wrong side in later disturbances and had their castles confiscated.