A single sheep
Doesn’t help me sleep
One and one and one and one
The counting soon is done
And don’t you look at me that way
I’m not trying to sleep in the middle of the day
But later, when the sun and I have gone away
Then one and one and one and one
Again the counting has begun
Written for Pick A Pic Week 5
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
Photos from our walk on 28th September 2024…
28th September 2024
Red Admiral, Comma and Large White
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
The last of the butterflies? Yet they’re still flitting around my garden
28th September 2024
Direction finders… one for road and one for wind
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
Autumn fruits…
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
Rose hips, and the prolific displays of bryony berries
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
The berries of the yew
28th September 2024
Although sheep are more a springtime feature, I couldn’t resist this…
28th September 2024
Hope you enjoyed. It seems summer is lingering here in UK, much to our joy
28th September 2024, a warm and sunny day, we’re walking between the villages, but not through them. Which means rural lands and footpaths edging on mostly arable lands. Please join us.
28th September 2024
Not all fields are ‘farmed’. I’ve a feeling this one is earmarked for residential development
28th September 2024
This lane cuts through a woodland at the back of a manor house, edged here by what are probably former workers’ cottages
28th September 2024
The village church at Framingham Earl. And as with many of the Norfolk churches, the village has migrated towards the arterial road leaving the church stranded at the far edge
28th September 2024
Almost silent, almost deserted rural lane
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
Perhaps a little incongruous, certainly unexpected, to find US military vehicle amongst the farm’s tractors
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
I love it when a public footpath takes us through what would otherwise be a private residence. And these trees… fantastic. We’re leaving Framingham Earl, heading to Alpington and Yelverton
28th September 2024
28th September 2024
We Brits don’t celebrate Halloween with quite the same fervour as our American cousins. So it was a delight to find this in Alpington. Loved the humour
28th September 2024
I do hope you’ve enjoyed this little ‘stroll’; we’ve walked from Poringland, along the outskirts of Framingham Earl, to Alpington and Yelverton, now we’re headed to Hellington to catch the bus home.
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
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
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
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
21st September 2024
21st September 2024
While holly and lord and ladies colour us red
21st September 2024
21st September 2024
Chestnuts and acorns provide the nuts
21st September 2024
21st September 2024
The fungi are beginning to raise their fruiting bodies
21st September 2024
21st September 2024
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
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
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
21st September 2024
21st September 2024
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
21st September 2024
21st September 2024
21st September 2024
Nearing the end of the walk, and again the mist lingers on
21st September 2024
It’s not a deep woodland, the sun shines through it!
21st September 2024
And out of the woods to catch the bus because I’m still a few miles from home.
Hope you enjoyed
crispina kemp 