Sunday Picture Post: Numb Fingers, Knees and Nose

Posted on February 4, 2024 by crispina kemp

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!

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Unusual for a Norfolk church, it hasn’t a tower. Its single bell sits outside the door.

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Wide skies, clouds and trees, such are today’s subjects…

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Snow is forecast for midday…

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We turn here to a footpath, which used to be a road. It runs alongside Lotus Works test track. No cars today

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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

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Solid puddles! The gate gives way to another path which takes us through a second woodland.

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The woodland is worked… for firewood

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Couldn’t resist the twisted trunk

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Hethel church, another God send. It has coffee making facilities and a toilet. Bless those parishioners!

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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

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Crazy Mary’s Hole

Posted on February 3, 2024 by crispina kemp

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

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CCC273: The Little Boat

Posted on February 1, 2024 by crispina kemp

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!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #273

Posted on January 31, 2024 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and 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: January’s Colours

Posted on January 30, 2024 by crispina kemp

Berries, catkins, fungi…and some birds. Enjoy

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We can always rely on wood jellies to swell and look juicy after weeks of rain

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Moss and tremates, the perfect wet winter combo…

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Sturdy brackets, here to stay

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Alder catkins, the cones just visible

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Hazel catkins looking great against the blue sky

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Evergreen Spindle and Ivy give us late berries

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Scarlet seems the garb of the day. A Ladybird seeking shelter… and a moorhen feeling brave enough to show itself

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Alas, that’s all folks. More photos next week. Hope you enjoyed.

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Sunday Picture Post: Out of the Wind Into the Woods

Posted on January 28, 2024 by crispina kemp

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…

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And so we cut away…

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A moment to admire the tall-grown alder trees, all hung with crimson catkins and brown cones…

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A short walk alongside the river Yare…

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And into the woods, to walk back whence we came…

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It’s great being out of the wind. But this is a former gravel quarry and there are some steep hills…

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But the trees don’t mind. They’ll grow anywhere!

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And it’s back into Norwich to catch the bus home, and my eye is caught by this!

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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.

 

 

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What an Achievement

Posted on January 27, 2024 by crispina kemp

18th January 2024

When walking the camera I seldom pass by a church without investigating. Most often they’re locked. This one wasn’t…which was most welcome since half-hour of clicking camera in sub-zero temps had frozen my fingers into icy lumps. So of course, I took photos while warming myself.

I claim this for Interior, my first title of #2024picofthemonth, as set at Of Maria Antonia

BTW an Achievement is an heraldic term referring to all the elements of a coat of arms.

18th January 2024

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Thusi the Magician

Posted on January 27, 2024 by crispina kemp

24th January 2024

The sun as it crested the valley caught Thusi still filling his water flasks at the designated pool. It wasn’t that the water was low but that he kept losing his purpose in the turmoil that spilled from the depths of his being. A wonder the pool hadn’t waves, so many his sighs.

53 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Turmoil

I confess to cheating a dab. This is an excerpt from my wip.

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CCC272: I Thought I Saw…

Posted on January 25, 2024 by crispina kemp

I thought I saw a puddy cat
Looking up at me
I did, a marmalade, thin cut
Sweet and sweet can be
Where was he from?
Had he lost his home?
Might I adopt him?
Alas, one look at me
And he was gone.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #272

Posted on January 24, 2024 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and 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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