Tuesday Treat: Spring Flowers

Posted on March 23, 2021 by crispina kemp

Hi. As promised, the flowers seen on last Friday’s walk. Enjoy

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Daffs… of course; probably garden escapees but now growing wild

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Blackthorn, Quick-thorn, Sloe, call it as you will

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Alexanders. Always early to flower

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And the low-growers…

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These have to flower early to catch the light before cast into shade by their taller neighbours

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And I promised you pussy-willow. An entire lane was turned silver with these

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Hope you enjoyed. I’m walking the camera again today. Let’s see what new treats I can bring home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You are my Sun

Posted on March 22, 2021 by crispina kemp

Oct 2020

You are my sun
You keep my warm
You light my life
When day is done
You carry me down
To enfold me
In your netherworld of dreams
Yet, my love, you are so hot
I’ll burn if at a distance I am not
Thus for safety I’ll remain orbiting

50 words, written for Weekend Writing Prompt: Orbit

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Sunday Picture Post: Early on a Spring Day

Posted on March 21, 2021 by crispina kemp

Friday 19th March – the day before the vernal equinox – the Met Office forecast suggested I might catch a sunrise

Screenshot from Met Office website: Gt Yarmouth 19 March 2021

But with the sunrise scheduled for 5:59 I needed to be out early

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Downriver from Haven Bridge; towards Breydon Water beyond Breydon Bridge

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Like Lot’s wife, I glance back… the awaited event must be nigh

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And here the sun shows herself, no mist nor clouds to hide her

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For an hour or so after, the sun tints the clouds and gilds the grasses

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As the sun rises she casts blinding light over Breydon Water

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Soon I acquire a walking companion who stays always slightly ahead…waddling

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And geese take to the air

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Low tide, a film of water covers the mud and reflects the blue sky. Beautiful.

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And the much-photographed Berney Arms Mill

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As the path enters Burgh Castle, Spring greets us full frontal…

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Burgh Castle with its Roman ruins… a good place to stop for a coffee from my flask

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I choose a different route back… along a flooded lane

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and a track that takes me back to Breydon

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The photo doesn’t show that the trees either side are pussy willows (I’ll show you that in Tuesday Treat)

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A last look at Spring… until Tuesday Treat

Hope you enjoyed the walk

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What the Romans Did

Posted on March 20, 2021 by crispina kemp

Burgh Castle: 19 March 2021

These Roman remains of  a C3rd fort sit 5 miles distant from Great Yarmouth (when walked via the estuary bank). There and back gives me a 10-mile hike.

Wall/Tower from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia

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CCC123: What Have They Done?

Posted on March 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge 123

What have they done to me?
Taken me and turned me to stone
Never again to go home
Sat upon a post in the cold
Do they think this foliage will fool me?
I am not young but I ain’t so old
Roar they said, roar and guard us
Cos not one of them knows how to be bold.
And I shan’t mention the birds that regularly shit on me.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #123

Posted on March 17, 2021 by crispina kemp

CCC123

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: Details

Posted on March 16, 2021 by crispina kemp

A few of the smaller things seen on my walk last week
(Acle to South Walsham via Upton)

Remember the mistletoe tree? Not an easy shot, but…

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And the fairies’ garden, where the rowan leaves offered early colours

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Alder hung with catkins and cones

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We met some animals along the way

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Our path took us around the perimeter of Upton Fen where the channels sprout fresh green

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and the hazel catkins blow in the wind

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and fungi are never far away

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and daffs grow on the banks

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To arrive at South Walsham Broad where the Egyptian goose is a common sight

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Flowers seen along the way…

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That’s all folks… no Tuesday Treat next week, not sure I’ll get out for a walk
(my father’s funeral, you understand)

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Gladly Would I

Posted on March 15, 2021 by crispina kemp

May 2017

Happily would I trudge the many mud mired miles
Gladly would I work my feet
Rub them raw in shoes until they blister
Just to see this perfect vista

29 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Vista

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Sunday Picture Post: Land of My Fathers’

Posted on March 14, 2021 by crispina kemp

Monday 8th March dawns misty and cold. But we’ve arranged to do this 10-mile walk from Acle via Upton to South Walsham (home in 1817 to my many-times great-grandpa, John Self Brown) and back, and so we will.  The bus takes us across the grazing marshes to Acle. Thereafter it’s mostly off-road walking.

Despite a parish almost empty of families Fishley church remains open: it serves the people of Upton too

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Cutting across the field to Upton, what’s this we spy in the naked branches? Could this be mistletoe? Indeed it is.

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There’s a secluded garden accessed via the footpath into Upton village…

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You’d be forgiven if you thought I climbed a tree to take the photo. But look again…

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This delightful garden is a community resource… and home to fairies

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Our path takes us through the reeds…

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with views over the marshes to a mill beside the River Bure

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To deliver us at Upton Staithe

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Maybe you think of willows when you think of rivers and lakes. But here are alders decked in crimson and gold

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Destination, South Walsham Broad. We sit awhile to eat our lunch, accompanied by Mr Mallard

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And back to Upton by road where we pass an ancient Grandmother Oak

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Before we leave the area, I love old houses; I’d love to live here…

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Hope you enjoyed this week’s walk. The sun didn’t shine, most of the paths were deep in mud, but there were some interesting sights. I’ll share more of those with you on Tuesday.

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Lined Up and Waiting

Posted on March 13, 2021 by crispina kemp

Upton Staithe: 8 March 2021

The boats line up, ready to move down the channel and into the river as soon as our government lifts the Covid restrictions.

Follow Me, from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia

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