Admiring the View

Posted on May 1, 2021 by crispina kemp
22nd April 2021

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

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Learning to Fly — Lauren Willmore

Posted on April 30, 2021 by crispina kemp

Learning to Fly: The Spinner’s Game Continues by Crispina Kemp My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read an early version of Learning to Fly and loved it. I’ve also read all the previous Spinner’s Game books, but this isn’t necessary and first time readers can easily jump in here. I’ve always considered myself a […]

Learning to Fly — Lauren Willmore
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CCC129: Old Man of the Woods

Posted on April 29, 2021 by crispina kemp
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #129

Old man? But he would be old if he had lived; he was older than me.

“I’ll be waiting for you right here,” he said every time we parted. “Even if I die, I shall still wait here for you.” And me, the callous bitch, married his brother within a year.

Thirty years since I’ve been here, his brother now joined him in death. And what did I expect to find? His ghost? No, just this carving, done as a self-portrait he’d said.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #129

Posted on April 28, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC129

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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Yare Valley Flowers

Posted on April 27, 2021 by crispina kemp

Spring has definitely arrived in the Yare Valley…. enjoy

Few-Flowered Garlic: 15 April 2021
It lined the paths and in the sun smelled (to me) divine: 15 April 2021
Horse Chestnut: 15 April 2021
Norwegian Maple: 15 April 2021
Cherry: 15 April 2021
15 April 2021
Moschatel: 15 April 2021
Violets: 15 April 2021
White violets: 15 April 2021
Cuckooflower aka Lady’s Smock: 15 April 2021
Marsh Marigold aka Kingcup: 15 April 2021
Nettles… oh yes, and a pheasant: 15 April 2021
Cow Parsley… everywhere: 15 April 2021

Hope you enjoyed this little taste of spring. More next week

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Something Different

Posted on April 26, 2021 by crispina kemp

Monday is usually my day for answering Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt but this week I answered it straight into the comments. Which frees up today for something… different.

Mandarin Duck: 15 April 2021
Close-up: 15 April 2021
Mallard duck… looks like she’s fending off Mr Fancy Pants! 15 April 2021
And now she’s called in Barny Barnacle Goose for extra defence: 15 April 2021
Meanwhile, Mr Mallard Drake is in a tiff: 15 April 2021
The Egyptian Geese watch the spectacle: 15 April 2021
And Mr Cobb Swan casts a watchful eye on his family: 15 April 2021
Whitlingham Park… where birds of a feather flock together (sometimes in harmony): 15 April 2021
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Along the Yare

Posted on April 25, 2021 by crispina kemp

You’d think with living at the mouth of the Yare (Yarmouth) I’d have enough of that river. But no. Early on 15th April, despite an unfavourable weather forecast, we catch the bus to Norwich and get off at the outskirts to walk a way along the River Yare.

Trowse: 15 April 2021
Can you see this? The raindrops. 15 April 2021
We’re at Whitlingham Country Park beside the Yare, trying not to get too wet: 15 April 2021
Edged by wooded hills, a former gravel quarry, those hills are steep: 15 April 2021
Precipitous! : 15 April 2021
Climbing out of the river valley… the sewerage treatment plant: 15 April 2021

Aren’t you glad cameras don’t capture smells!

Weather’s not looking any better: 15 April 2021
Canola gives colour to this landscape: 15 April 2021
Back down to the river; there are 2 pubs on our route: 15 April 2021
Oh for those hazy lazy days of summer: 15 April 2021
It won’t be long now; that river soon will be busy: 15 April 2021
Our path lurches dangerously close to the river: 15 April 2021
Reeds standing proud beneath a lowering sky: 15 April 2021
The cattle that graze the marshes here 15 April 2021
Up hill again (we’re almost at destination): 15 April 2021
The second pub along the way and destination: 15 April 2021
And now the weary walk back to the bus: 15 April 2021

Hope you’ve enjoyed our walk. By the time we get back to the bus route it’s 10 miles, the sun has come out and my feet are sore.

For Tuesday Treat I’ll show you the flowers seen on this walk. But before that, breaking habit, Monday I’m gonna treat you to birds!

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Nature’s Looking Glass

Posted on April 24, 2021 by crispina kemp
22 April 2021

Here’s the seat where I usually rest when I gain this stage of my walk. But not this time. The flooding earlier in the year has not yet receded, turning the woodland floor to glass.

Glass/Mirror another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia

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Hello? Anyone home?

Posted on April 22, 2021 by crispina kemp
Crimson’s Creative Challenge

“Guess nobody lives here anymore.”

“But this is the right address.”

“Yea, and no one’s used those steps in many a year. Tell me again what he looked like.”

“Old. Gnarled.”

“And green?”

“What’re you implying?”

“A short little cobbler, was he?”

“A cobbler, yes, that’s why I’m here.”

“I think you’ve been tricked by a leprechaun. Let’s get out of here. Quick!”

“A-ah, too late.”

“Run!”

“Can’t, I’m stuck.”

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #128

Posted on April 21, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC128

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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