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Friday Fliers

Some of the butterflies, damsels and dragons seen on our walk on 25th July 2025. Enjoy 🔼Small white and Green-veined whites 🔽 ⏬ 🔼 Gatekeepers 🔽 🔼 Wall, showing underwing pattern 🔽 male wall ⏬female wall 🔼 Common blue male … Continue reading

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CCC046: The Bishop and the Carrot

What had he done to bring this curse on One moment a red-coped bishop Leading a procession through a field ready to crop The next, brought low with a beetling brow A carrot in the soil beneath him rooting deep … Continue reading

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #046

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 they are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading

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Tuesday Treats: A Breydon Miscellany

A miscellany of photos taken during our walk on 26th July 2025. Enjoy 🔼 Of course the blackberries are fruiting. Yet it’s unusual for all the berries to turn colour in unison. Had to have a pic (picture, that is, … Continue reading

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Sunday Picture Post: A July Day Beside Breydon Water

26th July 2025, forecast is for it to get out kinda hot in the afternoon so we decide if we walk alongside Breydon Water we’ll catch a cooling breeze. Please, join us Between town and Breydon lies a fen-like area … Continue reading

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Gilly’s Meeting

Gilly Goose, jarred off at how the hikers heedlessly hefted chunks of bread That sometimes struck an unwary head… Ducks might duck Swans swim away But Gilly and her sisters preferred to stay… Called a meeting Every kind of duck, … Continue reading

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Friday Fliers

More butterfly pics, these from our walk on 17th July 2025. Enjoy Peacock, of course 🔼 🔼 Small Copper (my favourite) 🔼 Small Skipper 🔼 Red Admiral (notice a maritime theme here?) 🔼 Small Tortoiseshell 🔼 Gatekeeper, very prolific this … Continue reading

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CCC045: That’s Dead Slow

Context is everything Believe me 6mph, my crow-friend croaks 6mph, that’s a joke 6mph, what, cos their wings are broke? 6mph, I can fly faster But that sign is for humans in charge of Broads’ cruisers Because 6mph is all … Continue reading

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #045

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 they are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading

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Tuesday Treats: Penultimate Shots of July

A miscellany of photos taken along our walk on 17th July 2025. Please note, I’ll post the butterfly pics this coming Friday. Enjoy One thing I like about walking early in the day is the quality of light at this … Continue reading

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