Sunday Picture Post: A Forgotten Walk of 2024

Posted on January 12, 2025 by crispina kemp

4th October 2024 we walked the beach from Gt Yarmouth to Caister-on-Sea. But then the following week we had loads of wonderful fungi photos and autumnal foliage, and the beach walk got pushed aside. So now’s time to catch up. Enjoy

4th October 2024

We might like to catch the sunrise, but in early October that rising is early

4th October 2024

Yet we’ve managed to catch the last of the sun’s golden rays!

4th October 2024

4th October 2024

Cute little clouds we have this day. It’s not always so on this coast

4th October 2024

I never tire of taking photographs of the wind turbines – on zoom, for they are more than a mile and a half out at sea

4th October 2024

4th October 2024

The dunes (see Tuesday Treats for our Dune Community)

4th October 2024

At Caister we find a wonderful box of tricks. So thoughtful to provide these for visiting children

4th October 2024

Caister-on-Sea houses an active fishing community. Yet it has no harbour, no river, no jetty, just the beach and this little ‘hard’ at the back of the dunes

4th October 2024

Hope you enjoyed. See Tuesday Treat for the Dune Community

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Me? No, You Can’t Mean Me

Posted on January 11, 2025 by crispina kemp

Image credit: Peggychoucair on Pixabay

That word doesn’t belong to me. It’s like I dropped it somewhere in childhood in the snow and when the snow melted that word ran away with it. Down the drain it went, never to return.

Wouldn’t you say that’s rather a negative attitude?

I’d say it’s realistic. You tell me – you know my life – when’s been a time, an incident, an event when even the most charitable person could have said that of me?

Well…

Yes? Can’t strain your brain to find me a time?

But you’ve just won the game. You’re the winner.

95 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Winner

 

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2024 Pic Of The Month

Posted on January 10, 2025 by crispina kemp

Every year Maria Antonia sets titles for us to fill with our photographs. At the end of previous years I have selected the ones I like best, one from each month (see on the menu bar) to showcase. But for 2024 Maria changed how we’d do it.

Now, it’s only one title per month. This greatly simplifies that previous awesome task of deciding which of each month’s photos to choose.

So here are my photos for #2024picofthemonth and their titles

January: Interior

18th January 2024

February: Head’s Up

17th February 2024

March: Quiet Time

18th March 2024

April: Vintage

18th April 2024

May: Above/Below

4th May 2024

June: Water

17th June 2024

July: Yellow

25th July 2024

August: Cheeky

25th August 2024

September: Mirrored

7th September 2024

October: Read Me

4th October 2024

November: Lost and Found

28th November 2024

December: Golden Hour

4th December 2024

And that’s all for 2024. It just remains to thank Maria for setting the titles. I thank you, Maria 🧐

 

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On a Winter’s Morn

Posted on January 9, 2025 by crispina kemp

Jack Frost
And his wife
Dancing across our meadows and our lanes
Freezing up the puddles
Decorating brimming drains
Challenged the Frost Giants to a fight
The Frost Giants breathed and huffed and sighed
The world turned white
Just look outside!

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #016

Posted on January 8, 2025 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice!

And here there are:

You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps an  answering photo, or micro-fiction, or a poem, or just a caption

As before, there are 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.

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: Details From a Year of Walks

Posted on January 7, 2025 by crispina kemp

Enjoy

Hethel 12th January 2024

Burlingham 23rd February 2024

Swardeston 27th March 2024

Costessey 13th April 2024

Tasburgh 23rd May 2024

Whitlingham 5th June 2024

Coltishall 4th July 2024

Acle 25th August 2024

Upton 7th September 2024

Horsford 17th October 2024

Fritton 11th November 2024

Breydon 4th December 2024

And here’s an extra pic taken on what should have been the last walk of the year, but my ankle gave way and we had to call it off

Bure Park 29th December 2024

That’s all for now, folks.

If I’m not back on my feet before the next Sunday Picture Post is due, then I shall delve into my most ancient archives and find a walk that’s not been posted yet.

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Sunday Picture Post: A Year of Norfolk Walks

Posted on January 5, 2025 by crispina kemp

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

What with Christmas and New Year, and the weather, and yet another debilitating mishap, I’ve been unable to get out for a new Norfolk walk. However, this seems a good time to review the walks of 2024. I’ve picked one walk per month, and one photo per walk. Please, enjoy

The year began with intense cold and threat of snow…

Hethel 12th January 2024

Followed in February by flooding

Burlingham 23rd February 2024

Spring arrived in March, ablaze with yellows

Swardeston 27th March 2024

In April it was bluebells and fresh green leaves that teased our lens

Costessey 13th April 2024

May, the leaves fully unfurled, our world turned green

Tasburgh 23rd May 2024

June we visited Whitlingham Country Park to find its earlier flooding lingered, But this swan and its cygnet didn’t mind

Whitlingham 5th June 2024

In July we sought shady river banks, away from the heat of the fierce sunshine

Coltishall 4th July 2024

In August, while nursing an injured knee and hip, we kept our travels local

Acle 25th August 2024

We’re fortunate to live so close to the Norfolk Broads, for with me still limping in September we were still keeping it local

Upton Staithe 7th September 2024

Autumnal colours tempted us further afield in October

Horsford (Broadland Country Park) 17th October 2024

Those colours continued into November

Fritton Woods 11th November 2024

And with the autumnal colours gone, we returned to the waterside

Breydon Water 4th December 2024

I hope you enjoyed the little review. I don’t claim these as the best of the photos from each walk, more that they’re representative of each environment

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Out of the Clouds

Posted on January 4, 2025 by crispina kemp

Original image: Roger Casco and Pixabay

From out of the clouds
Like a tsunami it surged
Our land and people to submerge
In one eternal purge
Life and death in that moment to merge

28 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Merge

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First Lady Britannia

Posted on January 2, 2025 by crispina kemp

Who’s that atop that column?

That, my friend, is Britannia, the First Lady of this land.

What, like a president’s wife…?

Like a goddess.

She old, then?

She found her name in the first century BCE; given her by the Romans.

So why’s she’s standing up there, so high?

She watches out to sea and protects us from invaders.

She’s not done a very good job, has she, not if she’s been on duty since the Romans…

The column is known as Nelson’s Monument, although it is Britannia atop it. It was erected in 1817, the first of many columns in Britain to honour Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson 1758-1805.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #015

Posted on January 1, 2025 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice!

And here there are:

You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps an  answering photo, or micro-fiction, or a poem, or just a caption

As before, there are 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.

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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