Tuesday Treats: A Winter’s Miscellany

Posted on January 23, 2024 by crispina kemp

Additional pics from our walk on 9th January 2024. Enjoy…

9th January 2024

We can always rely on ivy to provide winter colour, and not just the obvious green

9th January 2024

Most of the ice has gone but this lingers on

9th January 2024

Great Egret… looking great!

9th January 2024

Long-tailed tit amongst the alder. These little birds are such speedy flitters, it’s a delight to catch this shot. I’ve been trying for years!

9th January 2024

Hazel catkins. Yay. Spring’s trying so hard to appear

9th January 2024

Irresistible colour caught by the sun

9th January 2024

Alder catkins. That crimson brings welcome colour…

9th January 2024

What? Fungus? Yea, in a sheltered damp place…

9th January 2024

More remnants of the earlier frost

9th January 2024

It was a flower… or rather, a seed case. Rose Herb Willow Bay

9th January 2024

Call it as you will, Traveller’s Joy, Old Man’s Beard or Clematis vitabla, it provides most welcome subject for our winter camera

9th January 2024

Hope you enjoyed. More from this walk next week

 

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Sunday Picture Post: In a Biting Wind

Posted on January 21, 2024 by crispina kemp

9th January 2024, first walk of the year, and it’s a tad cold, and the wind is howling. But we’ve been promised sunshine. So hats, gloves and thermals on, and let’s go. We’re headed to Whitlingham Country Park. Although we expect some flooding, at least we know we’ll see swans!

The bus drops us a mile or so from the park, so first thing we see is…

9th January 2024

You know I love tractors. And John Deere are the best

9th January 2024

We decide to stop off at Trowse church, so many times ignored in our keenness to reach the water…

9th January 2024

The early morning sun paints this majestic tree…

9th January 2024

Here at the Country Park the first (small) lake has flooded its sides, but the path is passable. Or so we think. But  just beyond this corner is a wide and deep flooding, so we double back to find another way through

9th January 2024

9th January 2024

You know it’s cold when the cormorants prefer to roost in the tree

9th January 2024

Spectacle Geese… walk like an Egyptian

9th January 2024

I could fill 3 posts with photos of these swans. They’re such showoffs

9th January 2024

And the light is just right

9th January 2024

9th January 2024

We wanted to circumambulate the lake but this isn’t the only stretch impassable without thigh-high waders. And so we decide to head for the woods. We’ll pick up that trail next Sunday.

Hope you enjoyed.

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Problems at the Foundational School For All Things Grey

Posted on January 20, 2024 by crispina kemp

credit: Anemone123, Pixabay

Now listen to this, guys—no, no, quieten down, I’ve something important to say.
And so began Melinda Black’s day
Head teacher at the Foundational School of All Things Grey
It wasn’t easy to get their attention
Even when she threatened detention
Being ‘greys’ they hadn’t much factual retention
They tended to dilly and dally and all together sway
So, she said, okay
Just take notes
And proceeded to download the quotes

72 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Note

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CCC271: The Race Was On

Posted on January 18, 2024 by crispina kemp

Ivy and Sunflower agreed to have a race. Who could reach the sky first.

Ivy was slow at the off, while Sunflower shot up, way ahead.

But then came the storm – which laid Sunflower flat.

Meanwhile, Ivy lazily climbed.

And climbed.

And climbed.

Yay! Just like the tortoise, Ivy won the race.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #271

Posted on January 17, 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: Winter’s Limited Palette

Posted on January 16, 2024 by crispina kemp

A few more pics from our walk on 28th December 2023. Enjoy

28th December 2023

Some say bullrush, some say reedmace, we could argue all day

28th December 2023

No disputing this: This is reed in seed

28th December 2023

When all are shades of beige and fawn, a little emerald makes the day

28th December 2023

Thankful to find more colour in the village…

28th December 2023

28th December 2023

A cluster of green hiding from the wind at Burgh Castle

28th December 2023

I’d like to tell you what birds these are, but not a good enough shot to i.d. them

Hope you enjoyed our last walk of 2023. Next week, our first walk of 2024…and it was a sunny day!

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Sunday Picture Post: Marsh, Castle and Mill

Posted on January 14, 2024 by crispina kemp

Second half of our walk, 28th December 2023. Wrap up warm, it’s a cold blustery day…

28th December 2023

The marsh is cut by channels that drain it, the water pumped into the estuary. This is where we leave the windy riverside and walk a (private) marshland road. The pumphouse marks that turning, the modern equivalent of the windmills

28th December 2023

28th December 2023

Wide skies, and reeds whipping in the wind…

28th December 2023

28th December 2023

No horses nor cattle out to pasture during the wet months…

28th December 2023

The willows help buffer the wind…

28th December 2023

Heading into village…and out again

28th December 2023

I promised you mills!

28th December 2023

Zoomed and not zoomed…

28th December 2023

Two rivers flow into the estuary that is Breydon Water. River Yare, and this river, the Waveney…

28th December 2023

28th December 2023

Looking back from the river to the one-time coastal cliff where the Romans built a fort in C2nd CE

28th December 2023

The ruins of C2nd Burgh Castle (means castle on a hill)

Hope you enjoyed. There’s a pub in the village. I’ll meet you there 😉

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Mammy

Posted on January 13, 2024 by crispina kemp

credit: Carola68 on pixabay

Mammy was furious
But she always was
The slightest thing
She’d make a fuss
She fumed that the car wouldn’t start
She fumed that she’d now have to catch a bus
The bus was late
Of course
Nothing ever went right
That was Mammy’s fate
The hiccups at her wedding foretold this
Nothing went smoothly
She could expect no wedded bliss
Her man was late to the church
She feared she’d been left in the lurch
Now she raged of disenchantment
Already late for the psychiatrist’s appointment.

87 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Appointment

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CCC270: Where, What, Who?

Posted on January 11, 2024 by crispina kemp

Doctor, what have you done? And where have you put us? This is not Earth 1968.

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #270

Posted on January 10, 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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