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Friday Fungi Fest

Posted on November 29, 2024 by crispina kemp

Some of the fungi we encountered at Fritton Woods, aka Waveney Forest, on 11th November 2024. Enjoy…

11th November 2024

That’s all for this week, folks. Although the full fungi season is now drawing to a close, I have weekly walks with fungi pics enough for another two, maybe three weeks… until Christmas

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CCC010: This Little Piggy…

Posted on November 28, 2024 by crispina kemp

Have you seen Maisie today?

Nah. I think she went to market.

Oh dear, I do hope she doesn’t stay. Me and Jolene were expecting her to stay home and play. Jolene’s cooking a massive ox-roast.

She’s the best chef – or so she boasts.

Aye, so she says but, excuse me, no food for me. I have to hurry off, I need to pee!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #010

Posted on November 27, 2024 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, except this week I’ve taken one from Friday Fungi, too). 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: Autumn Colours

Posted on November 26, 2024 by crispina kemp

I regret the fewer photos for this post this week. While the trees are decked in vibrant colours, the colour is lacking elsewhere. But, let’s go for it. Photos of colours seen on our walk on 11th November 2024. Enjoy…

11th November 2024

This hardly needs saying: Beech, and Beech and Holly

11th November 2024

Oak still showing green against the vibrancy of a cherry tree

11th November 2024

The sun tried to blind us, but it couldn’t steal the colours

11th November 2024

Young birch trees and, below, bracken and heather, alert us to this now is heathland

11th November 2024

Loved this one: Honeysuckle berries hang like Christmas Tree decorations on a young fir tree.

And that’s all for now folks. But I do have more for next week when we’ll explore Fritton Woods, a forest best seen in autumn!

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Sunday Picture Post: Sandy Lane

Posted on November 24, 2024 by crispina kemp

11th November 2024, we’re heading out to Fritton Woods, aka Waveney Forest, which requires an approximate 2 mile walk along the aptly named, unmetalled, Sandy Lane. This autumn has been dry, so no deep puddles to drench our feet. Enjoy…

11th November 2024

The lane takes us first through farmland one side and the common, the other side. We hear those pigs before we see them. Love to see them reared outdoors

11th November 2024

The trees are really turning colour now…

11th November 2024

And now it’s a golf course one side and still the common on the other

11th November 2024

To me, the epitome of this walk!

11th November 2024

Ancient oaks clinging to banks worn into a hollow-way by centuries of rain and feet

11th November 2024

And all too soon we’re at the forest. There’s been much felling over recent years with fears of gravel-quarrying this heathland. But that project fell through (phew, so glad) and the trees are reclaiming the land. But more of that next week.

Hope you enjoyed

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In Nine-Hundred-Thirty-Three

Posted on November 23, 2024 by crispina kemp

Image by Dorothe from Pixabay

Woe is me
I’m lost at sea
In nine-hundred-thirty-three
I’d thought: a Viking’s life for me
I’ll head out north
For Iceland, and that vicinity
But I’m not Viking born and bred
I can’t navigate, I’ve not the knowledge in my head
How they do it’s a mystery
To me

50 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Vicinity

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Friday Fungi Fest

Posted on November 22, 2024 by crispina kemp

Photos of fungi seen along Sandy Lane on our way to Fritton Woods on 11th November 2024. Not so much colour now, seems the trees are stealing the show! So, let’s go…

11th November 2024

We were disappointed to find no parasols where previous years there have been loads along this lane. Perhaps the weather has been too dry (no puddles and mud-baths to negotiate!)

Anyway, hope you’ve enjoyed. Fungi found at Fritton Woods next week

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CCC009: A Winsome Lass

Posted on November 21, 2024 by crispina kemp

A winsome lass
Dainty feet treading grass
Tripping o’er the fields and tracks
Heading out to where the parish turns its back
There, she doffs her cotton smock
And none can see her
None will look
As she slips into the welcome waters
Of the wending Wensum brook

Here’s where I used to swim. It’s not a brook but a beautiful chalkland river, very clean waters (when recent rain hasn’t washed silt into it!)