Sunday Picture Post: To Promenade Beside the Sea

Posted on January 2, 2022 by crispina kemp

20th December, we bus to Kessingland and walk back to Lowestoft along the beach. But at Pakefield we cheat and walk on the promenade provided…

A lone tree watches us pass

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I name this X Marks the Spot. That wind turbine sits on Britain’s most eastern point, Lowestoft Ness

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Gazing out to sea while eating lunch, curious of the shape of this ship. I just had to zoom in to see. I think it’s a helipad

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Beach huts at Pakefield… for changing in privacy, sheltering from wind, and making cuppas. They look like garden sheds to me

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I love this rainbow beach hut. I think the owner used tester pots

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Beach huts at Lowestoft. A different look. Corporation-owned?

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Lowestoft sea front…

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Groynes at Lowestoft… and that ship

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The Royal Yacht Club… not that the royal yacht docks there. This is where I stand and dream. Now, which one do I want?

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That’s the one for me, all decked out. Sail away, sail away, sail away…

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Hope you enjoyed this little jaunt along the prom. Thank you for following me. I wish you Peace, Love & Contentment in 2022.

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On New Year’s Day

Posted on January 1, 2022 by crispina kemp

1st January 2021

On New Year’s Day 2021 I took this photo in the blue hour before sunrise. Here you see it on my laptop. A Photo of a Photo, I claim that title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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A Year of Photos 2021

Posted on December 31, 2021 by crispina kemp

Every Saturday since 2018 I have posted a photo from a list published by Maria Antonia. To see all 52 photos posted in 2021, see Top Menu or click here.

These I’m showing you are my favourites, one from every month.

January

In The Cold: 2nd January 2021

February

Loud/Quiet: 6th February 2021

March

This Side of Things: 6th March 2021

April

Fill The Frame: 10th May 2021

May

Up Close: 8th May 2021

June

Splash of Colour: 12th June 2021

July

Wheels: 10th July 2021

August

Serendipity: 28th August 2021

September

Big Picture: 25th September 2021

October

Within A Frame: 9th October 2021

November

Texture: 27th November 2021

December

Black and White: 4th December 2021

Hope you enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed the taking and choosing. Now, I wonder what photos I’ll take in this coming year!

Wishing you all Love, Peace, and Contentment in 2022. 

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CCC164: Here I Stand

Posted on December 30, 2021 by crispina kemp

It rains. And I stand here.
The wind howls. And I stand here.
It snows. And I stand here.
The sun shines bright. And I stand here.
But when the klaxon sounds
Calling my fellows from around the town
Then I’m first to our station, another soul to save.

The statue is of a Lifeboat Man. The Royal National Lifeboat Institute is manned mostly by unpaid volunteers. Founded in 1824, it has 238 lifeboat stations around our coast with 444 lifeboats.

*Manned* as in handed, for there are women crewmembers too

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #164

Posted on December 29, 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 Treat: Winter Dunes

Posted on December 28, 2021 by crispina kemp

We don’t expect to find much of interest in winter on the dunes, swept by salt-laden winds. Yet I did find a few subjects for my lens.

In a sheltered spot…

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It’s a succulent, but I’m not sure what

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Yay! Fungi

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And lichen, the earliest coloniser of post glacial lands

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Sea buckthorn. I was surprised at how many berries left though they’ve lost their deep orange shine

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And the leaves of sea buckthorn… what few remain

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Sedge holds its colour no matter what comes its way

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What comes is wind… and the wind sweeps the sand… to cover everything

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Tree lupin. A hard frost will blacken them, but not the salt and the wind

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And a final photo, one I couldn’t resist, seen on Lowestoft pier…

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That’s all for now, folks. Wishing you all Peace, Love & Contentment in the coming year

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Sunday Picture Post: Winter Dunes

Posted on December 26, 2021 by crispina kemp

20th December: it took us 2 buses to reach Kessingland beach where the dunes stretch into the distance in mimic of the Gobi desert. Here the marram, so green in the summer, had bleached almost to white. The challenge was to find colour.

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Even the few berries that remained on the sea buckthorn had faded. Made no difference to this blackbird. He still munched on them

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I’m not used to seeing reeds on the beach… but this is a different dune system to the one I’m familiar with at Great Yarmouth

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Here there is water. These quite extensive pools are called slacks

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Patterns left behind by the tide…

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And that sea was a little bit choppy

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Before we leave the dunes and the beach, a look landward at the ever eroding cliffs

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Habitation! And beach huts where traditionally bathers would change in privacy. These days they’re more likely used to shelter from our wonderful English winds!

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We continued our walk along the prom into Lowestoft. But I’m saving those photos for another day. Hope you enjoyed. And Happy Christmas!

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Like a Band of Boys

Posted on December 26, 2021 by crispina kemp

image by Thomas Wolter on Pixabay

Neighbour’s an elderly lady
Quiet
But Christmas Eve
Like a band of boys
What a din
What a noise!

19 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Prompt: Din

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Harbour Lights

Posted on December 25, 2021 by crispina kemp

20 December 2021

I was waiting for the sun to crest the horizon but just couldn’t resist turning the zoom to the distant lights at the harbour’s mouth (perhaps as much as a mile away)

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

To show how it works…

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CCC163: Gloria in excelsis

Posted on December 23, 2021 by crispina kemp

Gloria slammed the door on the carol-singers with their “Deck the halls”.

She didn’t want to be jolly. Or rather she wanted to be jolly all on her own. Why, when all year round they left her alone, couldn’t care less if she lived or drowned, must they bully her into enjoying their company? Just because of the season. No! No, no, and no again. She didn’t like company. She didn’t want to sing, at least not their songs. She was okay on her own.

She put on her music, opened a bottle, sank into her chair, and skinned a spliff. NOW Gloria was in excelsis.

Happy Christmas. And please be considerate of your neighbours. Maybe they LIKE to be on their own and do their own thing. That doesn’t mean they are lonely.

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