Friday Fungi Fest

Posted on November 15, 2024 by crispina kemp

More fungi photos from our walk around Costessey Ponds and along Marriott’s Way on 25th October 2024. Enjoy

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I’m thinking these are death caps, but I’m not sure. Certainly members of the Amanita clan

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Above: Another Amanita, probably a Blusher.

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A White Saddle, which is a new find for us. Very excited!

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And back to the nameless…

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But these above are certainly Inkcaps. And below, an abundant flourishing of the Honey Fungus (Armillaria)

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That’s all for now folks. More next week

 

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CCC#008: Reflections

Posted on November 14, 2024 by crispina kemp

She sat there every day
For two hours after school
She waited for him
The guy she thought so cool
But after a fortnight with no sign of him
She named herself a romantic fool

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #008

Posted on November 13, 2024 by crispina kemp

Please note the title of this post. Hope it doesn’t cause you confusion 🤨

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 Treat: Leaves, Berries and Late Flowers

Posted on November 12, 2024 by crispina kemp

A few of the photos from our visit to Marriott’s Way and Costessey Ponds on 25th October 2024. Enjoy

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Above, ivy berries. Below, rose hips

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Ivy flowers, privet berries and oak leaves…

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An ivy vine, unfortunately detached

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Sycamore flashes autumnal colours. Although long ago naturalised, it’s not a native tree

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Forget-me-nots flourish in damp conditions

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Blackberry briars (brambles) and maples, reliable autumn colours

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Hope you enjoyed. More next week

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Sunday Picture Post: Yet Another Misty Morning

Posted on November 10, 2024 by crispina kemp

25th October 2024 the morning begins misty but with promise of sun. So hop upon bus into Norwich, and another bus out. We’re heading first to Costessey Ponds, then along Marriott’s Way to Drayton (but that latter’s for next week’s post). So, let’s go!

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A swift walk along a residential road, we then join a stretch of Marriott’s Way. The mist, much in evidence on our journey, still is holding in Wensum Valley

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We’re hoping for autumnal colour, but it comes so late to our part of the world…and then the leaves fall

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To right and left of the bridge over the Tud, a tributary of the Wensum

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Around the ponds the mist again is thick…

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That mist softens what might otherwise have been brilliant autumn colours…

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There are several ponds, former gravel-diggings. This is one of the smaller ones, inaccessible last year due to extensive flooding of the area

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That’s all for now, folks. We’ll resume our walk next week. Check out Tuesday Treats for more photos from this walk 😘

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A Hunter Did A Hunting Go…

Posted on November 9, 2024 by crispina kemp

4th March 2024

“Jackie, boy?”
Jackie turned back. “Master?”
“Fare thee well?” asked the master.
“Very well.”
“Where goes thee?” asked the master.
“Derry Downs,” the apprentice replied.
“The king’s forest?” asked the master.
“Aye,” replied his apprentice.
“Not to hunt?” the master asked.
“To my hole, down the Down.”
“Hey, thou’st a hole down the Down? Off thee go then,” said the master.
Jackie patted his side where he’d hidden his bow beneath his cloak. And looking around that no one was near, sang with good cheer.
“All for the sake of a merry little doe, amongst those leaves so green-o.”

99 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Hunter

Based on an old English song dating to the 14th century. Also known as The Keeper Did a-Hunting Go

 

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Friday Fungi

Posted on November 8, 2024 by crispina kemp

Welcome to another Friday Fungi Fest with photos from our walk on 25th October 2024 (see Sunday’s Picture Post on 10th Nov)

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Hope you enjoyed. More from that walk next Friday!

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Pick A Pic/CCC#007: The Fairy Hex

Posted on November 7, 2024 by crispina kemp

Ah me, oh woe, but Life is foul
Ma sent me here to wash our knicks
Our vests and blouses and our *kex
But she told me not
Of the fairy hex
Upon this spot.

Soaken
Broken
Drowned
And taken

Though I clutch to any living body
Drain their warmth and wealth
Though I drink their well-being
Yet never can I return to health

*For those not knowing, kex are trousers

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Pick A Pic #7 [Crimson’s Creative Challenge #007]

Posted on November 6, 2024 by crispina kemp

Please note the title of this post. I miss the name, Crimson’s Creative Challenge. So we’ll start it at #007, this being the 7th week of the new format. Hope it doesn’t cause you confusion 🤨

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 Treat: Autumnal Medley

Posted on November 5, 2024 by crispina kemp

An autumnal medley featuring photos taken during our walk on 17th October 2024. Enjoy

17th October 2024

Our native trees tend to be late autumnal-turners. But the chestnut tree isn’t native, thus its leaves are amongst the earliest to turn yellow and brown and drop to the ground. Below: a pioneering birch thrusts through the chestnut leaves, the attached polypore brackets forming like a ladder

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17th October 2024

Moss and lichen are year-round features where the ground and air is damp…

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I know the song says ‘The holly and the ivy’ but here the berries are rowan and holly

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17th October 2024

Beech leaves, gold in the sudden sun…

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17th October 2024

The mist is gone, now all is bright and clear in the sun

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17th October 2024

So busy looking at trees, we forget the lower woodland storey: Bracken, gorse and (below) the seed-heads of wood-sage caught it that wonderful golden autumnal sun

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That’s all for now folks. Don’t forget Fungi Friday!

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