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Tuesday Treat: Marshland Miscellany

Posted on December 21, 2021 by crispina kemp

Assorted photos taken on our walk from Great Yarmouth to Burgh Castle 9th December. Enjoy.

Reeds… to set the scene

9 December 2021

Cormorant: 9 December 2021

Love this little fella

Red Shank: 9 December 2021

Grey heron acting the lifeguard for a group of widgeon

9 December 2021

Greylag… bobbing around

9 December 2021

Oops! I wonder what startled them

9 December 2021

Tenacious leaves of willow

9 December 2021

Pheasants. On zoom

9 December 2021

Ah-ha! Surprise!!!

9 December 2021

All the same species, gathered together in a hazel plantation

9 December 2021

And that’s all folks. Hope you enjoyed

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Winter Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2021 by crispina kemp

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Sunday Picture Post: In the Early Morning

Posted on December 19, 2021 by crispina kemp

9th December, temperature isn’t sub-zero but the wind is keen. You might like to wear thermals. No bus to catch, we’re walking out of town. Which means we catch the sun rise.

The confluence of Bure and Yare, and the town in darkness beyond

9 December 2021

Breydon Bridge… it has become iconic

9 December 2021

And Breydon Water lies ahead

9 December 2021

And behind us…

9 December 2021

It’s called the golden hour for a reason. BTW that’s a puddled path, it’s not a stream

9 December 2021

Breydon’s grazing marshes…

9 December 2021

For a while now this is our route

9 December 2021

Birds are everywhere but too distant for me to get good focus, even with zoom (they keep moving!)

9 December 2021

One of the farms along the way

9 December 2021

There is a road across the marsh, private but locals walk it. Here the weather’s turned

9 December 2021

For me, this is iconic of our grazing marshes

9 December 2021

We arrive at the Queen’s Head (pub) Burgh Castle. We’re going to head up to the Roman fort where the views are amazing…

9 December 2021

I don’t know if I’ll get a walk in next week so I’m holding the rest of the photos in case. Hope you enjoyed

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Stillness

Posted on December 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Breydon Water: 9th Dec 2021

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

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My Friend

Posted on December 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Photo by AldoDK on Pixabay

Pavonine says this friend of mine
And thinks she’ll trip me
Defeat me
Mute my words and numb my hand
Ha! Little does she know me.
No country mouse me
No shrinking violet
No parson’s daughter
No penitent whore
No better behaved
Not knowing better than I ought-ta
(Not sure of that line
Neither sure of that friend of mine)
Pavonine
Calling all you Beau Brummels
Who deck your lordships up to the gunnels
Pavonines, bow to this friend of mine

81 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Pavonine

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CCC162: The Parish Eagle

Posted on December 16, 2021 by crispina kemp

Little Robin in the churchyard hiding
What was it the bird found frightening
Was the old vicar sermonising
Or the new organ player improvising

It was the eagle, parish-bought
And in stone realistically wrought
To sit above the south porch-door
That frightened young Robin to his core

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #162

Posted on December 15, 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: Nature Decked for Christmas

Posted on December 14, 2021 by crispina kemp

No more fungi. But Nature provides… like it’s all decked up for Christmas

22 Nov 2021

And we even have the Christmas star!

22 Nov 2021

That’s all for now folks. See you next week

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Sunday Picture Post: Last of November Walks (Part 2)

Posted on December 12, 2021 by crispina kemp

22nd November now seems so long ago, but let’s refresh memories. A bus across the grazing marshes take us to Acle where we squelch through Damgate Carr (carr = wet woodland) and over the pastures to join with a dry-ish road (yay!) to Tunstall.

Now to continue. We’re walking on an ancient shore, for where now is marsh used to be the mudflats of a wide estuary