Hergé’s Adventures of TinTin

7th September 2021

An hour before sunrise and yesterday’s heat created a muggy mist which now lay heavy over the tranquil sea. In the far distance, lights and the thrum of a ship’s engine. This was surely a test for my camera. Truly, I nearly missed the boat.

Miss the Boat, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.

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CCC148: Sail Away

For his birthday I bought him a yacht. He sailed away without saying goodbye.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #148

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

27th August we walked from Great Yarmouth to Lowestoft. Here are some of the flowers seen on the way

Marram grass: 27 Aug 2021 

A wonderful medley of species & colour seen growing on the cliffs: 27 Aug 2021 

27 Aug 2021 

Tree lupins provide cover for the sand: 27 Aug 2021 

Rosa rugosa aka beach rose: 27 Aug 2021 

Teasels: 27 Aug 2021 

Fennel, we see it flowering everywhere this year: 27 Aug 2021 

Cliff top flowers: 27 Aug 2021 

More teasels… teasels everywhere on these cliffs: 27 Aug 2021 

We take a break at Hopton… where I clicked this cormorant

27 Aug 2021 

Hope you enjoyed. More next week

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Bad News

What use a newspaper when the news is grim
Better to burn it, make the day less dim
Been like this now for years
Headlines grimmer than a soul can bear
Come on, reporters, you can do better than this
Or is it that editors won’t take a risk
We’ve heard this before
From torturers of yore
Making profits out of people’s wails
Bad news mean big sales

68 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Newspaper

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Sunday Picture Post: Beach and Cliff

27th August we set out early from Great Yarmouth

Bridge over River Yare: 27 Aug 2021

And arrive at the harbour’s mouth, just across the river, in Gorleston

27 Aug 2021

27 Aug 2021

On Gorleston seafront, street art commemorates the making of the movie Yesterday in 2019…

27 Aug 2021

27 Aug 2021

27 Aug 2021

Looking seaward… it’s early, the beach empty, the lifeguards not yet on duty

27 Aug 2021

27 Aug 2021

Between crumbling cliff and battering sea: 27 Aug 2021

27 Aug 2021

No, it’s not a miniature version of Sea Henge. It’s a bush that before the winter storms grew atop the cliff

27 Aug 2021

Hopton, where the incoming tide forces us up the cliff where seats are planted sooo conveniently for a rest

27 Aug 2021

Hope you enjoyed the first part of this walk. From Hopton to Lowestoft next week

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Coastal Erosion

Gorleston Cliff: 27 Aug 2021

Slowly – or not so slowly – the sea nibbles at the land. And these cliffs, being of loosely compacted sand, crumble and fall. This photo shows that crumble in process, with the bushes previously growing atop the cliff now sliding down.

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

And, hey, I’ve got a line. BINGO!

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CCC147: Pale Moon Lady

Pale Moon Lady at the gate
You are early, I am not late
I refuse your proffered charms
Refuse to slip into your arms
See, I’m happy; see, I thrive
Days are numbered; I’m alive
Be gone, don’t haunt me, please don’t tease
My time’s not yet to rest in peace.

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #147

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 and Flutterbies

The walk from Tunstall to Halvergate and back to Acle Marshes is mostly through arable land, the flowers seen reflect this…

Fennel: 10th Aug 2021

On the village pond: 10th Aug 2021

10th Aug 2021

10th Aug 2021

Oh! Delicious… fungi: 10th Aug 2021

And the butterflies…

Gatekeeper: 10th Aug 2021

Unmistakeable, the Peacock: 10th Aug 2021

Equally noticeable, Red Admiral: 10th Aug 2021

A Green-Veined White (maybe): 10th Aug 2021

Small White, male: 10th Aug 2021

Speckled Wood: 10th Aug 2021

and the first I’ve ever seen and identified and managed a photo…

A Wall: 10th Aug 2021

And with a return to marshland… dragonflies

10th Aug 2021

10th Aug 2021

That’s all folks for this week. Hope you enjoyed. Next week we’ll be walking the coast so bring your cozzies…

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