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Boredom
The bane of my existence
Where’s the challenge, the excitement
Every day, this sameness
Bereft
Since you left
I long to expire
Be buried in a cold earthen grave
For with my ungodliness it’ll never be beneath the church nave
I long for a stake
Driven deep into my heart
Since we’re apart
To rapidly end this vapid existence.
60 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Vapid
We’ve plastic now for all our needs
So now we can save the trees.
Plastic is polluting our environment
Reject, use paper instead.
Burning fossil fuels is tipping our climate
But it’s fine to burn wood and trees are renewable.
This is a wood shed, a store for firewood. There are several throughout this little woodland.
Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE
Here are some suggestions:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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
18th January 2024 being sub-zero we had expected a winter wonderland but the air was too dry. Yet in a few sheltered spots we did find some glistening foliage…
18th January 2024
18th January 2024
And in one sheltered spot we found this…
18th January 2024
We had hoped for hazel trees heavily decked with their golden tassels. We found a few…
18th January 2024
18th January 2024
Is that all? No. There was this…
18th January 2024
18th January 2024
We found some interesting tree trunks…
18th January 2024
In the churchyard…
18th January 2024
And in the woods
18th January 2024
We found wind-dried plants gilded by the sun…
18th January 2024
18th January 2024
We found colour… in tiny spots
18th January 2024
18th January 2024
And at the last, a tenacious crimson leaf of the bramble briar…
18th January 2024
Hope you enjoyed. Time for a coffee and warm-up now. Next week we’re down on the beach… in very high winds!
18th January 2024 dawned cold, and windy. But what the jig, we’re still walking. Two buses later we’re off on a circular walk around the Norfolk village of Hethel (for those who like to know, it’s the home of Team Lotus). So wrap up warm, we’re looking at -7ºC… with wind.
18th January 2024
We expected to find a winter wonderland. But it’s been so dry. Even so, that church (Bracon Ash) was a God send. Fingers already numb!
18th January 2024
Unusual for a Norfolk church, it hasn’t a tower. Its single bell sits outside the door.
18th January 2024
Wide skies, clouds and trees, such are today’s subjects…
18th January 2024
Snow is forecast for midday…
18th January 2024
We turn here to a footpath, which used to be a road. It runs alongside Lotus Works test track. No cars today
18th January 2024
T’other side of the path is Hethel Great Wood. It is flooded, and floods are frozen. But at least it’s warmer out of the wind
18th January 2024
18th January 2024
Solid puddles! The gate gives way to another path which takes us through a second woodland.
18th January 2024
The woodland is worked… for firewood
18th January 2024
Couldn’t resist the twisted trunk
18th January 2024
Hethel church, another God send. It has coffee making facilities and a toilet. Bless those parishioners!
18th January 2024
And back to the bus stop. It hasn’t yet snowed, but it soon will.
Hope you enjoyed. Don’t miss Tuesday Treats for the details
24th January 2024
Upon a Suffolk shore, long-established dunes, the presence of brackish runs betrayed by the reeds and sedge, there is what I’d call a mighty dune slack known locally as Crazy Mary’s Hole.
And anyone who’s seen it with the Purple Glasswort in full colour, and anyone with a mind that works like a long-at-sea herring-fleet fisher, will know exactly why.
But it has to be seen from above and afar – from atop the cliffs that edge this shore. For Crazy Mary’s Hole isn’t a small affair, but in its proper season it stretches – all windy-windy – proper anfractuous.
97 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Anfractuous
23rd Sept 2021: Purple Glasswort at Crazy Mary’s Hole
Now I ask you, my lord
You have to agree
Isn’t this the smartest boat
To put out to sea?
Yesterday I did agree it
Before that storm tossed it up on the strand
Yesterday I might have agreed
That little boat’s grand!
Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE
Here are some suggestions:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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
Berries, catkins, fungi…and some birds. Enjoy
9th January 2024
We can always rely on wood jellies to swell and look juicy after weeks of rain
9th January 2024
Moss and tremates, the perfect wet winter combo…
9th January 2024
Sturdy brackets, here to stay
9th January 2024
Alder catkins, the cones just visible
9th January 2024
Hazel catkins looking great against the blue sky
9th January 2024
Evergreen Spindle and Ivy give us late berries
9th January 2024
Scarlet seems the garb of the day. A Ladybird seeking shelter… and a moorhen feeling brave enough to show itself
9th January 2024
Alas, that’s all folks. More photos next week. Hope you enjoyed.
The Whitlingham Walk, 9th January 2024, part two, please, join us
Our intention of circuiting the lake is hampered by impassable paths due to flooding…
9th January 2024
And so we cut away…
9th January 2024
A moment to admire the tall-grown alder trees, all hung with crimson catkins and brown cones…
9th January 2024
A short walk alongside the river Yare…
9th January 2024
And into the woods, to walk back whence we came…
9th January 2024
9th January 2024
9th January 2024
9th January 2024
It’s great being out of the wind. But this is a former gravel quarry and there are some steep hills…
9th January 2024
But the trees don’t mind. They’ll grow anywhere!
9th January 2024
9th January 2024
And it’s back into Norwich to catch the bus home, and my eye is caught by this!
9th January 2024
Hope you enjoyed this rather windy walk. Next week we have bitter cold, but we don’t give up! Thermals on and head into Norfolk’s cosy countryside. See you then.
crispina kemp 