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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By The Way

Posted on April 20, 2021 by crispina kemp

Quite simply, flowers seen along the way on our walk on Saturday 10th April. Hope you enjoy this wonderful splash of spring as much as I did.

Apple blossom: 10 April 2021
10 April 2021
10 April 2021
Red Dead-Nettle: 10 April 2021
Dead-Nettles & Stitchwort: 10 April 2021
Pink Campion: 10 April 2021
Alkanet: 10 April 2021
Ground Ivy: 10 April 2021
Forget-Me-Nots: 10 April 2021
Cowslips: 10 April 2021
Primroses: 10 April 2021
Barren Strawberry: 10 April 2021
:Star of Bethlehem: 10 April 2021
Wood Anemone: 10 April 2021

Truly, spring is here, with flowers everywhere.

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This Man of Mine

Posted on April 19, 2021 by crispina kemp
image by Pexels on pixabay

This man, what can I say?
Colliding on the internet
such is the common way
sent me pics.
Uncanny likeness:
Man from Uncle
Sapphire and Steel.
Can this be real?
But I’ve no doubt
A Scotsman’s genes will out

39 words for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Uncanny

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Into The Woods

Posted on April 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Oh yay! Although the sun’s hiding, yet spring is truly come. We take the bus from Great Yarmouth to the small town of Acle on the far side of the grazing marshes. Most of our route will be off-road. But after all the rain, how muddy will it be? We don’t care; we set off.

Farm track: 10 April 2021
Silver birch: 10 April 2021
Sycamore: 10 April 2021
Into the woods: 10 April 2021
Daffodils and primroses everywhere: 10 April 2021
10 April 2021
10 April 2021
Canola field adds a brighter yellow: 10 April 2021
Wow, this was a quagmire on our last visit: 10 April 2021
Turkey-tail Fungus: 10 April 2021
Male catkins of Black Poplar: 10 April 2021
Unidentified: 10 April 2021
I am told this is a Bee-fly! 10 April 2021
Hemblington Church from across the field: 10 April 2021

We intended to catch a bus into Norwich from here. But thanks to covid there is no bus. We walk to the next village. Same story: buses early & late to serve the workers but none on a Saturday afternoon. We get a taxi into Norwich where we catch a bus back home.

Watch this space on Tuesday for the flowers seen.

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Double Vision

Posted on April 17, 2021 by crispina kemp
15th April 2021

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

And they stood like that for what seemed an age, blocking my path!

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Misery

Posted on April 15, 2021 by crispina kemp
Crimson’s Creative Challenge

Mercy was her name
To the door she came
A nurse, she wore a mask
The look she gave me, I was scared to ask
In truth, I didn’t dare
Does Stephen King still live here?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #127

Posted on April 14, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC127

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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