Crimson’s Creative Challenge #156

Posted on November 3, 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: Fungi and Other Things

Posted on November 2, 2021 by crispina kemp

As we cross the bridge across the Wensum, I see this…

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Surely a good sign for the day’s fungi-hunt

From the bridge… this: 15 Oct 2021  

Bracket Fungi are there all year round. But in fungi-season they grow and put on fresh colours…

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And then there are those that only appear at this time of year…

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And then there is this. I’m told it is an Amethyst Deceiver. These little things were everywhere

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That’s all for fungi this week. I’ll leave you with this (leave:leaf, get it? Pun)

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Sunday Picture Post: Mousehold Heath

Posted on October 31, 2021 by crispina kemp

15th October, we bus into Norwich and arrive wonderfully early to walk through uncrowded streets. We’re heading for Mousehold Heath, a (mostly) wooded height that sits above Norwich on the banks of the Wensum. We cut through the cathedral close whence we emerge to this…

St Helen’s “Great Hospital”, Bishopgate, Norwich: 15 Oct 2021

We cross the river at Bishopsgate Bridge and straight away begins the climb

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Norwich as seen from St James Hill: 15 Oct 2021

We’re now on the edge of Mousehold Heath, about to venture in

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I have featured this free-standing wall before. And I still don’t have the history of it. This is new graffiti, I’ve not seen these hearts before

Love in the Woods: 15 Oct 2021

Someone is keeping an eye on us: 15 Oct 2021

In a clearing, we find Pitch & Putt…

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Comprising gravel and sand, it’s no surprise to find over the centuries the heath has been much quarried… resulting in these wonderful hills (yes, we climb them)

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Looking up, looking down

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At the heart there is the heathland

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Hope you enjoyed, and managed the climbs with me. Oh, and we found some interesting fungi. But that must wait till Tuesday Treat.

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Such a Bore

Posted on October 30, 2021 by crispina kemp

image: Bohdan Chreptak on pixabay

I love this woman
She’s one of the best
But the prompts she gives us
I swear are a test
Not of our encyclopaedic knowledge
But how we’ll use the word
That’s not like the rest
Take today’s vellichor
To say of old bookshops would be a bore

48 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Word Prompt: Vellichor

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For St George and England

Posted on October 30, 2021 by crispina kemp

Detail, St Ethelbert’s Gate, Norwich Cathedral: 15 Oct 2021

St George features on St Ethelbert’s Gate at Norwich cathedral. The gate was built in 1316 after the previous was destroyed in riots.

I think this qualifies for A Long Time Ago, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.

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CCC155: Lily

Posted on October 28, 2021 by crispina kemp

Lights
Bright sparkling lights
Like stars fallen to earth
Stars singing her worth.

Lily woke up smiling while still in bed
Her dream repeating in her head.
The stars had beckoned her
Called to her from afar
Granted her dream to be a film star.
Within her, excitement zinged
A Hollywood agent must have heard her sing.

Her phone vibrated and bleeped the once
An incoming text to announce
A successful interview, in her excitement Lily had forgotten
But the position applied for she now had gotten
To play the part of Ursula the Bear
The cuddly mascot at the local pier.

Oh well, maybe next year.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #155

Posted on October 27, 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: Fabulous Fungi

Posted on October 26, 2021 by crispina kemp

Yay! That time of year is here. I’m making no attempt to name the fungi (unless it’s obvious); just going to leave you to enjoy them. Please, enjoy them

Jelly ear: 4th Oct 2021 

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Earth Ball: 4th Oct 2021 

More of a lichen than a fungus: 4th Oct 2021 

Earth Stars: 4th Oct 2021 

And more: 4th Oct 2021 

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That’s all for now, Folks (it is still early in the year for fungi) Maybe next week I’ll bring you more

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Sunday Picture Post: Lound Lake

Posted on October 24, 2021 by crispina kemp

4th October we head to Lound Lake. We’ve skirted it on previous visits to the area. This time we’re to walk through the nature reserve. What will we see? But first we’ve a 2 mile walk from the bus stop to get there, at first by country lane…

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Then through a woodland…

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Where fungi grow (more of those later)…

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To arrive at the lake…

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Although called a lake it is one of the Broads, now repurposed as a reservoir

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How many geese make a gaggle?

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Moorhen: 4th Oct 2021 

And a curious young swan: 4th Oct 2021 

The reserve includes grassy upland, fantastic for butterfly hunters…

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And tree-shaded walks…

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And around a second lake the pine trees grow. For me, this tree is iconic

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I featured the second part of this walk earlier this year, so I’m going to leave this here. Ah, I mentioned fungi: See Tuesday Treats.

Hope you enjoyed. More next week.

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My Favourite Face

Posted on October 23, 2021 by crispina kemp

South Face, Norwich Cathedral: 15 Oct 2021

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

This isn’t the face of the cathedral most visitors see. They arrive from Tombland via the west gate, to the applause of clicking cameras. The west face is very ornate and gothic.

This is the south face, part of the original build, and Byzantium (Romanesque) in design

South Face, Norwich cathedral: 15 Oct 2021

The difference between Byzantium and Gothic is easily seen here

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