Crimson’s Creative Challenge #146

Posted on August 25, 2021 by crispina kemp

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:

  • 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 Treat: Marshland Flowers

Posted on August 24, 2021 by crispina kemp

Flowers seen on our walk of 10th August. Enjoy.

Hemp Agrimony: 10 Aug 2021

Raindrops on Nettles: 10 Aug 2021

Berries on honeysuckle: 10 Aug 2021

Water mint: 10 Aug 2021

Angelica: 10 Aug 2021

Tutsan: 10 Aug 2021

Bittersweet: 10 Aug 2021

Purple Loosestrife: 10 Aug 2021

Great Willow Herb: 10 Aug 2021

Berries of Guelder Rose: 10 Aug 2021

Figwort, a rarity for me: 10 Aug 2021

Growing beside the village pond, the figwort makes a satisfactory break in this walk. More next week. Hope you enjoyed.

 

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The Alpha Male

Posted on August 23, 2021 by crispina kemp

picture by Beto G on pixabay

My man is resourceful
He’s intelligent, tenacious – he stays the course, has a PhD
He’s imaginative, the creator of hot plots that feature me
His body’s robust, well-formed with thighs that are solid
Respected, respectable, nothing about him squalid
He isn’t young but not yet old
A snappy dresser, yet not over-bold
So what if I’m not his first, for neither is he for me
Pre-loved… just wish he were free

71 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: pre-loved

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Sunday Picture Post: Marshland Walk

Posted on August 22, 2021 by crispina kemp

10th August, we hop on the bus… and get off at the next stop: Acle, the far side of the grazing marshes. We’re walking from Acle to Halvergate via Tunstall. These photos record the first stage… to Tunstall. Waterproof boots required. Ready? Let’s go.

We enter Damgate Carr: 10 Aug 2021

Snails love this wet environment: 10 Aug 2021

10 Aug 2021

making out on the hemlock: 10 Aug 2021

Damgate Carr,, a wet woodland… 10 Aug 2021

10 Aug 2021

Out of the Carr, the path edges the marsh: 10 Aug 2021

This is willow country! 10 Aug 2021

10 Aug 2021

So grateful for whoever keeps the reeds and grass cut back: 10 Aug 2021

10 Aug 2021

Delighted to see the water plants in the drains: 10 Aug 2021

Acle marsh is grazed by cattle: 10 Aug 2021

Cud-chewing, yummy: 10 Aug 2021

At the edge of the marsh: 10 Aug 2021

Along narrow lanes we arrive at Tunstall church

Here we’re taking a break. We’ll continue the walk next week. Hope you’ve enjoyed. Sorry about the insect bites!

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Met Office Lied

Posted on August 21, 2021 by crispina kemp

14 August 2021

Breydon Water, a short walk from where I live, is where I go to take photos of sunsets. This day the Met Office forecast an overcast sky, too cloudy for the sun to shine through, but I needed the walk. As it turned out that, like Sméagol, Met Office lied… though it lasted only 5 minutes and it wasn’t a sunset.

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

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CCC145: RIP, Grandma

Posted on August 19, 2021 by crispina kemp

“Don’t you go falling down that well, Little ‘Un,” That’s what my grandpa said every time.

“She won’t fall, you daft ‘un,” my grandma always answered him and would allow me to carry the empty bucket down the moss-lined garden path.

But at the well she always took that bucket from me and did something with it inside the cover.

“Right you go, now,” she’d say, “wind her down.” And I would turn the handle, standing on tiptoes when it reached the top and putting my weight on it to bring it back down.

There’d be a splash as the bucket hit water. And that’s when grandma took over. Winding her up would be too hard a task for me.

The year I was seven – in the May – that task proved too much for her too. Rest In Peace, Grandma.

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #145

Posted on August 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

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:

  • 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 Treat: Butterflies on Flowers

Posted on August 17, 2021 by crispina kemp

Butterflies are everywhere now, and in the heat they settle on the pollen-rich flowers. They seem to have a preference for purple! Enjoy.

Red Admiral: 2 Aug 2021

Red Admiral sharing space with a Peacock: 2 Aug 2021

Gatekeeper: 2 Aug 2021

Peacock on Knapweed: 2 Aug 2021

Large White: 2 Aug 2021

Red Admiral on Thistle: 2 Aug 2021

Gatekeeper flashing the underwings: 2 Aug 2021

Meadow Brown underwings: 2 Aug 2021

Meadow Browns: 2 Aug 2021

Holly Blue: 2 Aug 2021

Painted Lady: 2 Aug 2021

Peacock: 2 Aug 2021

And now for something different…

Honey Bee, Honeysuckle: 2 Aug 2021

And even more different…

Bracket Fungi: 2 Aug 2021

Fungi: 2 Aug 2021

That’s all folks. Hope you enjoyed

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Until Forever

Posted on August 16, 2021 by crispina kemp

Crispina Kemp: 14 Aug 2021

Glow
My heart does glow
I’ll have you know
When you are near
When you show you care

Slow
The days goes slow
Like a sluggard flow
When you’re not around
When you are gone

Grow
My love does grow
And this to you, you know I’ll vow
Ever to be by your side
No matter where we both reside

Howl
You know I’d howl
And I would growl
A wild beast on a leash
If from this vow you now release
That we will be together
Forsaking any other
This day until forever

94 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Glow

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An Ode to I Know Who

Posted on August 15, 2021 by crispina kemp

Ought I to blush?
Am I a lush
To spend the night
In Dionysus’ arms
inebriated by his charms?
A Bacchanalian revelry,
My Lord, I cry, It’s most unlike me!

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