In Praise of Pleasure

Posted on October 19, 2024 by crispina kemp

Crispina Kemp 10th October 2022

Life is a lesson we want not to learn
Without merits, demerits or rewards to earn
A lesson with a curriculum that covers pain
Emotional
Physical
Mental
Again and again
We long for the school bell to ding-a-ling
A release from the suffering then to bring
That bell rings in our playtime
Hopscotch with repetitive long-learned rhyme
We welcome the leisure
Caked and sated in pleasure
And believe it all a wondrous respite
From our continuous earthly plight
But when we open our eyes
What a surprise
For us pleasure has more to teach

94 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Teach

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After the Ugly Bug’s Ball

Posted on October 17, 2024 by crispina kemp

What a ball!
What a night!
What utter exhaustion!
Had to pause
Had to wait
For my wings to dry out
Then we’ll party again…

Written for Pick A Pic Week 4, pic #3

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Pick A Pic Week #4

Posted on October 16, 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). 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: All Sorts of Everything

Posted on October 15, 2024 by crispina kemp

A few of the details from our walk on 21st September 2024. Enjoy

21st September 2024

Berry season: spindle and sloes make for a prolific and colourful display

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While holly and lord and ladies colour us red

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Chestnuts and acorns provide the nuts

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The fungi are beginning to raise their fruiting bodies

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The last of the dragonflies dries itself in the morning sun

21st September 2024

A Large White butterfly graces a purple-headed thistle, while the Red Admiral goes in for a colour-clash on these deep crimson haws

21st September 2024

And that’s all, folks! Hope you enjoyed

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The Show Must Go On

Posted on October 14, 2024 by crispina kemp

image credit: Alexa on pixabay

I loved working in the theatre. Not that it was always fun. Such as when the owners needed my secretarial skills and gave dictation ‘by committee’ – such confusion that could be. And then there was acting P.A. to visiting performers, especially of the star quality.

I remember one such ‘star’ who urgently needed meds else he couldn’t perform that night. For vertigo? I thought that had something to do with heights. Apparently not. I organised the meds from my GP. The show must go on.

85 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Vertigo

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Sunday Picture Post: Return to Norfolk (Lound Part 2)

Posted on October 13, 2024 by crispina kemp

21st September 2024, we’ve bused to Hopton, south of the county border, to walk back via Lound Lakes nature reserve. Last week we left the walk at the main lake. Now we resume. Please join us

21st September 2024

The morning mist stretches over the water

21st September 2024

In winter the lake is busy with ducks and geese, but not yet, just a swan all alone

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21st September 2024

This lake is available for fishing. It forms part of the local water company’s reservoir. The steep sides are wooded in pine

21st September 2024

After a short climb we’re back in arable country, and Norfolk

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Nearing the end of the walk, and again the mist lingers on

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It’s not a deep woodland, the sun shines through it!

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And out of the woods to catch the bus because I’m still a few miles from home.

Hope you enjoyed

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Lost Amongst The Mosses

Posted on October 10, 2024 by crispina kemp

Lost amongst the lichens and the mosses
She opens her petals, the day to grace
We don’t know her name
But all the same
That little white flower’s more precious than finest lace

For Pic #3, Wk 3

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Pick A Pic Week #3

Posted on October 9, 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). 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: A Mishmash Miscellany

Posted on October 8, 2024 by crispina kemp

A miscellany of photos from our walk 21st September 2024 in the order they came off my camera. Can you match them to the photos in Sunday Picture Post? Regardless, enjoy…

21st September 2024

Yellow toadflax, a reliable late flowerer

21st September 2024

Flowers amidst the mosses and lichens

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21st September 2024

I do love to see these crimson blackberry leaves at this time of year. And those tiny fungi we nearly stand upon

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

Two colonisers of hedgerows and fences: Bittersweet and Honeysuckle

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21st September 2024

I know I’ve said it many many times, but I do love the alder tree with its succession of flowers, cones and fruits

21st September 2024

Not many fungi arising yet, but the birch polypore is a ‘staple’

21st September 2024

Where there is water…

21st September 2024

In a dew-drenched meadow, self-heal seed heads and delicate grasses…and a spider’s web draped over the brambles

21st September 2024

Hope you enjoyed. Second part next week!

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Sunday Picture Post: A Short Hop South of the Border

Posted on October 6, 2024 by crispina kemp

21st September 2024 looked like it would be a good walking day so, hop on bus – and hop off again over the county border at Hopton. We’re to walk back to Great Yarmouth via the nature reserve at Lound Lakes. Please join us…

21st September 2024

Lound Lakes were formed the same way as the Broads, as peat diggings that then flooded. The difference? These are in a river valley. So we see the sun cresting the rim

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

Wherever the soil is damp, there you’ll find the alder tree!

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There is a constructed ‘dry’ path through this wet woodland at the tail-end of the watercourse otherwise this swamp would be impassable

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I love looking back…

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21st September 2024

The early morning mist clings to the trees, reluctant to relinquish its clasp

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21st September 2024

A sun-scorched meadow… once the sun rises above the trees. First half of walk – the walkway that crosses the main lake.

21st September 2024

We’ll leave our walk here and return to complete it next week.

Hope you enjoyed.

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