Crimson’s Creative Challenge #97

Posted on September 16, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#97

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 Fungi of Early September

Posted on September 15, 2020 by crispina kemp

A combined post of flowers and fungi…

Evening Primrose: 9 Sept 2020

Hips: 9 Sept 2020

Hops: 9 Sept 2020

So musical, this time of year… (Hip-Hop)

Himalayan Balsam: 5 Sept 2020

Rosebay: 9 Sept 2020

Rosebay: 9 Sept 2020

Rosebay: 9 Sept 2020

Forgive the repetition but this time of year I get obsessed with Rosebay

Common Reed: 9 Sept 2020

Stealing its colour from my hair!

My hair: 5 Sept 2020

Common Reed: 9 Sept 2020

Fading to winter…

Bracken: 9 Sept 2020

When bracken turns we know that autumn is near…

Brittlestems: 1 Sept 2020

Dryads Saddle: 1 Sept 2020

Lichen: 1 Sept 2020

I make no apologies. I like lichen

Lichen & fungi: 9 Sept 2020

Lichen: 9 Sept 2020

Closeup Lichen: 9 Sept 2020

Common Earthball: 9 Sept 2020

Waxcap (probably): 9 Sept 2020

That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed these photos.

I’m out again twice this week; who knows what treasures I’ll find.

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Hot-DMing

Posted on September 14, 2020 by crispina kemp

📷 12/09/2020 CK

Summer spent in tweeting
Chatting, texting, hot-DMing
Work outstanding shifted aside
A summer of fun I’ll not deny
But autumn brings deadlines
Reminds me what I’m supposed to be doing
Time to work, to rectify

35 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Rectify

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Sunday Picture Post: Thirteen Miles to Norwich

Posted on September 13, 2020 by crispina kemp

Tuesday 1st September seems so far away now. But it’s a walk I’ve not yet shared, and so I will.

At Lenwade, the village after Gt Witchingham: 1 Sept 2020

We caught a bus to Norwich, then another heading out to Fakenham, and got off at Great Witchingham where we picked up Marriott’s Way… and walked the 13 miles back to Norwich.

Marriott’s Way Railway Art: 1 Sept 2020

Marriot’s Way makes use of a disused railway track. Some of the rails have been turned into sculptures, each attached to a most uncomfortable seat.

Marriott’s Way runs mostly through woodland: 1 Sept 2020

Speed-curbing barriers warn of the approach of a road crossing

Oak leaves in the sun: 1 Sept 2020

Pylons march across the pastures: 1 Sept 2020

Two passions in one: Pylons and Rivers. This is the Wensum. Marriott’s Way crosses and recrosses it many times on the way to Norwich

Attlebridge: 1 Sept 2020

The level crossing gate at Attlebridge. This used to be my furthest walk along Marriott’s Way. Now… peanuts!

Ash leaves in the sun: 1 Sept 2020

The sun did shine strongly. Not the best condition for woodland photos.

And once out of the woodland, the sun hid behind clouds

One of the many bridges over the Way: 1 Sept 2020

1 Sept 2020

Only 8 miles to go…

Random art: 1 Sept 2020

I don’t know the origin of this, but it’s characteristic of the Way

1 Sept 2020

Wow!!!! Go walkers, go!

River Tud at Costessey: 1 Sept 2020

The Tud is the most excellent of paddling streams. Here it is nearing its confluence with the Wensum at Hellesdon

Hellesdon: 1 Sept 2020

The last road to cross. From here on the roads fly over while the Way crosses bridge after bridge over the Wensum. But I’ve covered this section so many times, I shan’t repeat it here. See Sunday Picture Post: Bridging the Wensum posted 2nd August 2020

Just note: two and a half miles to Norwich

My last shot of the Wensum as it approaches the bridge on Mile Cross Road, Norwich.

And was I tired at the end?

Nope.

Did I ache?

Perhaps my back twinged a bit.

Were my feet sore?

Naa…yes, I confess. But only the right one

Photos of flowers and fungi from this walk and others (5th & 9th September) can be seen in “Tuesday Treat” (on Tuesday!)

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The Rosy Blush of Dawn

Posted on September 12, 2020 by crispina kemp

Up early to walk the 9 miles along Breydon Water from Great Yarmouth to Burgh Castle and back. I wasn’t expecting a notable sunrise and was surprised when I looked back and saw it happening. Meanwhile, in front of me was this…

BreydonWater: 5 Sept 2020

Quality of Light, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

Sunrise over Breydon Bridge: 5 Spet 2020

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CCC96: Wanted, a Kindly Person

Posted on September 10, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #96

Grandma’s house. But Grandma was dead, that house was now mine.

It wasn’t set in the village, wasn’t easily accessible. It sat at the end of an overgrown footpath, all nettles and thistles and brambles. Grandma’s goat had kept it clear, but that goat had long-since died.

All of which presented a problem.

If I was to live in it, I’d need water laid on, and sewerage, and electric. I’d need some way for deliveries to reach me. And it would take more than a goat to clear that path.

Maybe if I advertised some kindly person with the right equipment might volunteer?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #96

Posted on September 9, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#96

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

Posted on September 8, 2020 by crispina kemp

I’m giving no commentary to these photos except to say they were taken on 3rd September 2020 when it seems most of East Anglia experienced an amazing sunset. These photos were taken either at Breydon Water or on my way there. Enjoy…

CK: 3 Sept 2020

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According to Scientists…

Posted on September 7, 2020 by crispina kemp

April 2019

George opened his eyes with grudged reluctance, disturbed from his Sunday morning slumber by her downstairs. Who was she talking to, all ‘sweetness’ and ‘petals’? Next door’s cat, most likely.

He had told her… and here she’d got it in the living room, forbidden that, with their good furniture.

He reached for his trousers. He thumped down the stairs. Let that scare the moggy. He opened the door.

And there was his beloved watering her plants, not a cat in sight.

Cos plants are sentient too.

86 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Sentient

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Sunday Picture Post: At the Third Attempt

Posted on September 6, 2020 by crispina kemp

The main Broad at Whitlingham: 20 August 2020

We were going to Whitlingham Country Park. Twice we’d said it, and then been rained off. Now it was going to happen. But the day would be hot. Best to get an early bus. Be there and walked around and back before the swelter started.

Ha. Things didn’t quite work that way.

An accident on the Gt Yarmouth to Norwich route blocked the road. The police set up a diversion. Ha! A narrow twisting country road where the bus we were on encountered an equally large vehicle.

But eventually, we’re there and no one was paddling, no one sailing…

Whitlingham: 20 August 2020

But a spider was spinning between the parapets of Trowse bridge as we passed it

Trowse bridge: 20 August 2020

We walked around the Broad (aka lake) while the weather was still bearable

one of the many drainage channels: 20 August 2020

Disturbed some skulking moorhen and a coot. Looked for gold…

Shucks, they’re only pebbles: 20 August 2020

Stopped to admire the Old Man’s Beard that was scrambling over a straggling buddleia

Love this colour combo: 20 August 2020

Took loads of photos of trees. But so many trees, not easy to separate just one

A handsome birch: 20 August 2020

It was now getting hot, so we sought shelter in the wooded hills. Previous years we’ve found a rich assortment of fungi. This year we’re too early. But we did find these…

Yellow Curtain: 20 August 2020

Loved the deep ochre colour against the green of the moss

Joining the path again: Rosebay in autumn finery…

Rosebay spindling into dehiscing seed-pods: 20 August 2020

And came upon a regatta. A yacht race in miniature…

Radio-controlled model yachts on Whitlingham Broad: 20 August 2020

Sweltering hot, feeling tired and uncomfortable, we would have left except…

Swans at Whitlingham: 20 August 2020

… the wildlife had different ideas.

BTW: with wildflowers now fewer and fungi not yet in abundance, no Tuesdays Flowers. Instead, a treat…

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