Tuesday Treat: Skies

Posted on June 29, 2021 by crispina kemp

All photos taken 23rd May 2021 around Breydon Water and Grazing Marshes

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Birds, Boats & Buds

Posted on June 27, 2021 by crispina kemp

June 11th, with the temperature rising, we decide to take a bus to the North Norfolk Coast. Cos there it’ll be cooler. Right? Mmm. When we arrive the tide is high. So we walk the prom and take in the sights.

Gull: 11th June 2021
Not a Rock Dove, despite it’s standing on a rock. It’s a Collared Dove: 11th June 2021
A true Action Shot: 11th June 2021
11th June 2021
One self-opinionated Cormorant: 11th June 2021
Sheringham is a fishing town, adhering to traditional ways: 11th June 2021
11th June 2021
Check out the perspective on this (repays close study): 11th June 2021
Unlike my hometown where all is flat, North Norfolk coast has cliffs: 11th June 2021
and a flint-cobbled beach: 11th June 2021
Thrift carpets the cliffs: 11th June 2021
11th June 2021
Sea Campion, too, grow on the cliffs: 11th June 2021
And sea aster: 11th June 2021
11th June 2021

That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed our day out!

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Anyone for Cricket?

Posted on June 26, 2021 by crispina kemp

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

Cricket has been played here, on Swardeston Common, since a time immemorial. Alas, it was the wrong day to catch them in play.

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CCC137: Phew, A Treasured Chance to Rest

Posted on June 24, 2021 by crispina kemp
Crimson’s Creative Challenge

Phew. a treasured chance to sit and rest, though I’ve had to get up at 4:00 am to do so. Moving home is such a chaotic time, the worst part reconnecting phone and broadband.

I’m sorry folks but I’m not going to be on WordPress again until after 6th July. I have scheduled photo posts to last till next week’s CCC. Thereafter…

Please excuse if I don’t visit your posts. In those rare and quiet moments, I shall try to contact by phone, but with so many of you I cannot hope to reach you all.

In the meantime, I take this chance to wish you all well and promise you I shall be back… sometime in July.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #137

Posted on June 23, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC137

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: Flowers

Posted on June 22, 2021 by crispina kemp

Photos of flowers taken on our walk from East Carlton to Swardeston via Intwood 1st June 2021

Grasses are flowers too. Not sure if this is foxtail or timothy

Horse chestnut (conker tree)…

Leopardbane, a naturalised garden escapee…

Cranesbill, one of the many varieties…

Here’s another you might not think of as a flower. Plantain

And another naturalised escapee, Russian Comfrey…

These tiny sapphires are speedwell…

Purple cranesbill…

(Wild) Star of Bethlehem, the flowers and stems much smaller than the garden variety

And that’s all for now. Hope you enjoyed

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Sunday Picture Post: Intwood

Posted on June 20, 2021 by crispina kemp

We left our walk at Catbridge Lane, heading to East Carlton and Intwood. To resume (all photos 1st June 2021)

Across the paddock, beyond the thicket and gardens and common, is Mulbarton church. But we’re not heading that way.

Foxtail grasses (or maybe timothy) edges a paddock… edges a paddock, as do we

The footpath delivers us onto another tree-shaded lane… to East Carlton

One of two gatehouses we pass, guardians of East Carlton Manor

This shady lane leads down to the river (which here is barely a stream). But that’s not where we’re going

Last time I came here there was only a stile. Now there’s a kissing gate (and the stile remains)

Truly, all the way from East Carlton to Intwood the lane was wonderfully shaded with vistas of sheep meadows beyond

Finally out of the trees… and we’re greeted by a cooling breeze. Close to lunchtime now, thinking of where we shall stop

The distinctive mail van adds just the right note to this picture of a canola field and verges lined with hedge parsley

Ah! Intwood church… where we’ve reserved a seat beneath a cherry tree to eat our lunch

The Lady of Intwood. Who is she? I’ve featured this before (Sept 2018) and at that time I researched her identity. Mystery Lady

Buttercup meadow alongside the lane back to Swardeston to catch the bus home

Hope you’ve enjoyed our walk and enjoyed the views of this fresh green land

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To the Manor

Posted on June 19, 2021 by crispina kemp

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

For anyone interested, this is Intwood Hall, just outside Norwich, a bit of Victorian Gothic Revival

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CCC136: Gusted

Posted on June 17, 2021 by crispina kemp
Crimsons Creative Challenge 136

He asked me which I’d rather see, the sun or the clouds.

I said clouds.

And so he gusted up a storm and blew the thick clouds over me.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #136

Posted on June 16, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC136

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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