What use a newspaper when the news is grim
Better to burn it, make the day less dim
Been like this now for years
Headlines grimmer than a soul can bear
Come on, reporters, you can do better than this
Or is it that editors won’t take a risk
We’ve heard this before
From torturers of yore
Making profits out of people’s wails
Bad news mean big sales
68 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Newspaper
27th August we set out early from Great Yarmouth
Bridge over River Yare: 27 Aug 2021
And arrive at the harbour’s mouth, just across the river, in Gorleston
27 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021
On Gorleston seafront, street art commemorates the making of the movie Yesterday in 2019…
27 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021
Looking seaward… it’s early, the beach empty, the lifeguards not yet on duty
27 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021
Between crumbling cliff and battering sea: 27 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021
No, it’s not a miniature version of Sea Henge. It’s a bush that before the winter storms grew atop the cliff
27 Aug 2021
Hopton, where the incoming tide forces us up the cliff where seats are planted sooo conveniently for a rest
27 Aug 2021
Hope you enjoyed the first part of this walk. From Hopton to Lowestoft next week
Gorleston Cliff: 27 Aug 2021
Slowly – or not so slowly – the sea nibbles at the land. And these cliffs, being of loosely compacted sand, crumble and fall. This photo shows that crumble in process, with the bushes previously growing atop the cliff now sliding down.
Piece by Piece, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.
And, hey, I’ve got a line. BINGO!
Pale Moon Lady at the gate
You are early, I am not late
I refuse your proffered charms
Refuse to slip into your arms
See, I’m happy; see, I thrive
Days are numbered; I’m alive
Be gone, don’t haunt me, please don’t tease
My time’s not yet to rest in peace.
Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN
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:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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
The walk from Tunstall to Halvergate and back to Acle Marshes is mostly through arable land, the flowers seen reflect this…
Fennel: 10th Aug 2021
On the village pond: 10th Aug 2021
10th Aug 2021
10th Aug 2021
Oh! Delicious… fungi: 10th Aug 2021
And the butterflies…
Gatekeeper: 10th Aug 2021
Unmistakeable, the Peacock: 10th Aug 2021
Equally noticeable, Red Admiral: 10th Aug 2021
A Green-Veined White (maybe): 10th Aug 2021
Small White, male: 10th Aug 2021
Speckled Wood: 10th Aug 2021
and the first I’ve ever seen and identified and managed a photo…
A Wall: 10th Aug 2021
And with a return to marshland… dragonflies
10th Aug 2021
10th Aug 2021
That’s all folks for this week. Hope you enjoyed. Next week we’ll be walking the coast so bring your cozzies…
image by Keith Johnston on pixabay
It was easy to take stock
To list the qualities
The abilities
The attained training
The experience
To lay my plans
I would not be taken for a fool again
I would marshal my weapons
And SLAM the man!
39 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Marshal
Last we we left our marshland walk at Tunstall. Today we’re heading to Halvergate. Please do come along.
Tunstall church: 10 Aug 2021
Tunstall pond: 10 Aug 2021
Not the usual garden gnomes! 10 Aug 2021
And not the usual *look-a-like* homes: 10 Aug 2021
Halvergate church: 10 Aug 2021
Inside: 10 Aug 2021
And out: 10 Aug 2021
The famous flint flushwork, much in evidence in this part of Norfolk
Wide sweeping views from what once was the Great Estuary shore: 10 Aug 2021
Wide land, wide skies: 10 Aug 2021
Needed x60 zoom to get these 2 mills: 10 Aug 2021
The marshland wasn’t drained until early C19th. Before them *marsh* was the true description.
Oops, is it to rain on us? 10 Aug 2021
Love farm machinery, old or new: 10 Aug 2021
The lane to the marshes and the last leg home: 10 Aug 2021
That’s all for now folks. See Tuesdays Treats for the butterflies, dragonflies and flowers seen along the way
27 Aug 2021
A Speckled Wood. We all know how restless a butterfly is. So when it came to rest I took a chance. I wasn’t sure of the focus, the sun was blazing through the leaves and reflecting on the pond beyond. But hey, as you can see…
Serendipity, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.
Ted thought no one would find him, holed up in the old telephone box. No one used it; everyone had their own mobile phones.
But his rural sequester was broken when the village got a new vicar.
“Since the phone box no longer houses a phone, the parish council has agreed we should turn it into a ‘Bring-and-Borrow library.”
But it didn’t please Ted when the vicar agreed he could stay. For now where was he to hide away?
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