Sunday Fungi: Kept in the Dark

Posted on February 2, 2020 by crispina kemp

After the fantastical fungi forms of late, I give you a typical mushroom shape. It’s name? So many it could be that I won’t hazard the guess.

Like clustered lights aglow in the dark in a hollow log

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Art Decor

Posted on February 1, 2020 by crispina kemp

I walk past this doorway on my every return from the shops, and always it catches my eye.

A touch of Art Decor on Great Yarmouth’s Old Fire Station: 31st December 2019

The Old Fire Station has long since been replaced, and the building converted into residential apartments.

I claim it as Detail, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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CCC64: The Elders

Posted on January 30, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #64

“What’s that?”

“What’s what?”

I nodded at the structure. “Them.”

“Oh, them. Them’s the Elders.”

“What elders?”

“The Elders that were here before we came.”

“But nothing was here before we came.”

“The Elders were here.”

I looked at her. She was joshing me, yea? “When?”

“In the Elder Times; when else, of course.”

I didn’t believe her. There was nought but a mud-bank here before we came.

Because to me, they look like three elders, with heads together, discussing what now to do with the town. Though I suppose they could be wishbones. The giant Roc perhaps?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #64

Posted on January 29, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#64

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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Behind the Garden Shed

Posted on January 27, 2020 by crispina kemp

Imps being impish, sneaking away with a shroom… image by Hans Braxmeier on pixabay

I knew a family of imps when I was a kid
Lived behind the garden shed
My folks never saw them
Cos whenever they looked the imps promptly hid

I’d talk to them often though they’d rather play
Games vicious and tormenting
Left me with bruises and welts
That for endless days wouldn’t go away

They told me their names, they suited them well
Peccable, Perious and Pervious
Peccable nipped and pinched
Left me with lumps that then would swell

Pervious… shh, I shouldn’t be telling you this
Had desires beyond my young ken
He’d whip out his wazzy and… you know
But he swiftly tucked it when I gave him a kiss

As for the grandiose notions of Imp Perious… enough said.

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Imperious in 123 words

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Sunday Fungi: The Blob

Posted on January 26, 2020 by crispina kemp

No, not the classic sci-fi movie, but probably the most un-fungus-looking fungus, White Brain (Exidia thuretiana)

White Brain, one of the jellies…

Well I did promise you a potential alien… 🙂

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The Wall

Posted on January 25, 2020 by crispina kemp

There is a wall around our town, which aptly fits Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek challenge title of Around Town.

Of the many intact stretches of the wall, I picked this one cos… well, seems someone might be living there.

The wall dates to 1261 when King Henry III granted Great Yarmouth the right to enclose the town… against the danger of pirates!

Want to know more? See this link.

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CCC#63: A Picture of Me?

Posted on January 23, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #63

Who? Me? You want to make a picture of me?

Ow, but that’s… a-maaazing. Me? Are you sure you want me?

And I suppose you’ll want me to smile?

Oh dear. No, you’ll have to come back in a while.

Why? Because can’t you see? I’m naked. You’ll have to wait for a new coat to grow.

Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge #63

I don’t often do cute but… isn’t he sweet! 🙂

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #63

Posted on January 22, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#63

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.

For an increasing number of British farmers the alpaca has become the go-to for wool production. The alpaca’s fibres fetch a much higher price than common old sheep. But its still a rare sight in our countryside.

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Mr McGoo

Posted on January 21, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by Adina Voicu on pixabay

Mr McGoo supped too much brew
It’s true, phew, he hadn’t a clue
He slumped on the pew with only one shoe
Ignored all the fuss, looking askew
Till sobered anew

Written from Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Anew in 31 words

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