Monochrome: 31st Dec 2019
I confess I did tweak the photo. Those bins were very dark green. Otherwise, the photo captures another grey day in Great Yarmouth. And it had begun with dazzling sun!
See here for a list of titles for Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek challenge.
I was out on Wednesday, a walk alongside the estuary known as Breydon Water. As you can see, the tide was high.
Berney Arms windmill, view from Breydon Water: 8th Jan 2020
And look what I saw…
Alder-tree catkins: 8th Jan 2020
Hazel-tree catkins: 8th Jan 2020
And…
Blackthorn flowers: 8th Jan 2020
Which was enough to make me think Spring is on its way! Oh, Yay!
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #61
For the third time, Mr Davidson looked at the address he’d been given.
Marine Parade. Not Marine Crescent or Drive. Marine Parade.
He looked again at the items listed on the estimate:
Five days. Seven at most.
But this wasn’t the supposed glasshouse in someone’s garden. It was a rigging rusted palace! He cursed the lad he’d taken on to man his phone just a week ago. Claimed himself trained? Trained to claim dole.
#CCC61
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:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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.
The photo shows the upper portion of the Winter Gardens, a peoples palace of metal and glass constructed in 1878 in Torquay. It was transported to Great Yarmouth in 1904.
Photo by SeaReeds on pixabay
Up before the family stirs, rooms to clean, beds to turn, slops to empty, floors to wipe, rugs to lift and outside shake, grates and irons to clean, fires to lay in hearths and stoves, doors to answer, gloves to take… and you suppose I’ve time to lollygag with you? No, best you take your flowers and court a shop-girl.
60 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
I love that second doll’s face. She looks so pissed off!
Can’t help thinking of the Maid of Hearts… 🙂 but inadvisable to eat. And, you might note, it was a very wet day!
Black Bulgar aka Bachelor’s Buttons: 1st Oct 2019
The interior of this cup-shaped fungus is described in the field guides as dark brown. But herem some show as wine-red. First Nature website shows a photo of a red cup, yet makes no mention of this variation.
January update… and yes, it looks like I’m going to make that launch date of 20th March 2020, Vernal Equinox for publishing the five books of The Spinner’s Game on Kindle and POD. Treble Yay!
I can report with enormous relief that all five books – The Spinner’s Child, Lake of Dreams, The Pole That Threads, Lady of First Making and The Spinner’s Sin – are now thoroughly polished with every word sparkling. I completed the last on Christmas Eve! That warranted a drink.
And hey, here’s another chance to show off Lauren Willmore’s fantastic cover designs.
If there’s one thing I love as much as making maps, it’s formatting for publication. I’m currently working on The Spinner’s Child, but once that’s done, with templates set I should zoom through the others. I’ve downloaded the fonts Lauren used for the cover design, so I’m able to match the interiors with the covers.
As I said on the December update, I’m getting to grips with Inkarnate’s map-making app. And now I’ve shelled out for the commercial licence I get a whole load more effects to play with. Too many for my needs, but… sure is fun to play with them.
My intention was to use this supplement as a Giveaway with Pre-Orders, but formatting those five books, and the maps, must take precedence. But regardless, once I’ve completed it, I shall use it for promotional purposes… one way or another.
And that’s it for now. This must be my shortist ever update. Must be nearing completion!
Next e-book update: Sunday 9th February 2020
2020, a new year, a new list of titles for Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek challenge.
A New Year’s Eve scene on South Quay: 31 Dec 2019
For me it started on the last day of the old year. The day dawned warm, with hardly a breeze, and not a raincloud in sight. Right, grab the camera and get out. My thought was only to walk around town, since Around Town is one of the titles for this year.
Out of the door, turn right, 35 yds to the quay. And the above scene greeted my eyes.
That was it, the perfect shot for Up In The Sky.
I took several more shots, including this one…
Breaking the illusion: 31 Dec 2019
I could have put the camera away, turned around and gone home. But it was such a balmy day that I kept on walking. And scooped several more “interesting” shots.
If you fancy a hand at this weekly (yet annual) challenge, details and the list of titles can be found on Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek challenge.
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #60
Nay, lad, now don’t you call out too loud,
You’ll scare away the Nithings who live down by that drain.
Aye, lad, you don’t want to scare the Nithings.
But what are the Nithings? I hear you ask.
Why, lad, they be nothing but the darkest of happenstance.
Why begin the New Year with Sense and Sensibility… I’ll leave that to Jane Austen. Instead I’ll begin the New Year with Jest and Frivolity.
CCC#60
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:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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.
