The One-Eyed Blink

Posted on December 30, 2023 by crispina kemp

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Come here, wee one
I’ll teach you the one-eyed blink
That’s a wink

13 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Wink

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CCC268: The Fairies Debate

Posted on December 28, 2023 by crispina kemp

“Pretty,” Avlyn eventually decided, having stared for a very long time at the scene set before her.

“You don’t like it.” Being poetically inclined, Dervyle picked up on such things.

“It’s misappropriation, we’re not Christians,” Avlyn said in justification. “They bad-mouthed us and banished us two millennia past. Remember?”

“Isn’t it time we let that go? Besides, the golden tree is the larch, and that always belonged to us. As to the stars, aren’t they our homeland? I’ve used nothing in this scene that doesn’t belong to us. It is they who have misappropriated.”

Yay! To the fairies, I say. Written with no intent to offend.

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Crispina’s Creative Challenge #268

Posted on December 27, 2023 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: Mostly Fungi

Posted on December 26, 2023 by crispina kemp

Some of the details from our walk on 28th November 2023. Enjoy…

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That sun!

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Like an amber goblet…

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Only just visible…

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Hanging on!

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Sometimes it’s not the fungus that enchants, but the colours around it

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Guelder rose with berries like rubies in the sun…

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And a beautiful autumnal oak!

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Leaving the best fungal delight till last… It’s a coral (Ramaria something) but I wouldn’t like to be more specific than that

Hope you enjoyed.

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On This Day

Posted on December 25, 2023 by crispina kemp

To all my followers, past, present and future, my heartfelt wishes wherever you are in the world

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Sunday Picture Post: “Them Hills”, Part 2

Posted on December 24, 2023 by crispina kemp

28th November 2023 seems so long ago now, but so few our walks with such atrocious the weather. So here we go, Part 2

We enter the woodland…

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This tree fascinates me, in all her seasonal garbs

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The hills in places are steep, but they are not high…

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We choose the easiest route…

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A road crosses the hills, much used considering its minimum size!

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It takes us back down. We’re heading for the village…

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Delighted to see the oaks, so red in this light…

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And there is the river Wensum, swollen after so much rain

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And now to Taverham to catch a bus home…

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It’s been a magical day, with so much sun, and the wonderful autumnal colours. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

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Ding Dong Merrily

Posted on December 23, 2023 by crispina kemp

19th December 2023 

I love bells, so not surprising they figure extravagantly in my Christmas decorations.

With Bells On, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week 

And with that, this… another line. With just one Saturday left to 2023, clearly I shan’t be claiming another!

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Solstice Fire

Posted on December 23, 2023 by crispina kemp

My photo

Solstice morning. But Jill still had her chores. First was to fetch the water. It was still dark when she collected the bucket, slipped her feet into the wooden-soled shoes and clattered across the frosted cobbles to the well.

The catch to the cover was frozen. Jill breathed long and hard on it and still it wouldn’t budge. Wretched freezing weather.

But when she turned and saw the sun’s Solstice rays on the window, suddenly she wasn’t so cold.

79 words written for Sammi’s Weekend’s Writing Prompt: Window

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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 22, 2023 by crispina kemp

Alas, my fungi lovers, this might be the last Friday Fungi for 2023. They really are fast deteriorating. Just the odd one cropping up now. But let’s enjoy what we have…

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Roadside fungi beneath clipped hedges…

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And then on a part-hidden log, a little delight!

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And back to the roadside fungi…

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Like little lamps in the shadows…

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And into the woodland…

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Perhaps there’ll be a few more next week. Perhaps I’ll put them amongst the Tuesday Treats

See you then!

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CCC267: A Swanly Paragon

Posted on December 21, 2023 by crispina kemp

Charlie was what you’d call an annoying swan
Looking for fights
Aggravating
Raising his wings and saying
“Yea? So come on!”
Such an irksome swan
His brothers, uncles, aunts and so on
Tolerance lost
Cast on him scorn
“Hiss!” they said
Loudly in unison
Go away and don’t come back
Till you’ve learnt to be a paragon.

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