Category Archives: Photos

Friday Flyers

Butterflies and damsels from our walk on 10th June 2026. Enjoy 🔼 Where else would you expect to find a Meadow Brown? 🔽 🔽 Speckled Wood 🔼 Painted Lady on Breydon path 🔽 🔼 Tortoiseshell 🔽 🔽 It’s a moth. I don’t know … Continue reading →

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CCC092: Grandma’s Story

Beatrice held out her hand, as defiant as a traffic cop. “I don’t care if you are my husband, you’re not coming near me nor my bed till you find us a proper house.” Two babies she’d lost, living in … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #092

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 Miscellany of Pics

A miscellany of photos taken on our walk around Burgh Castle and Breydon Water on 10th June 2026. Enjoy 🔼 A Roman wall, doubtless made with local hands, and certainly with local flint. But as for the mortar, Roman mortar … Continue reading →

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The Great Estuary, or Burgh Castle

10th June 2026. My birthday. But the weather god doesn’t care about that; it’s going to rain late morning. This calls for a change of plan. We were going to walk out to Burgh Castle, along Breydon bank, to have … Continue reading →

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Friday Flyers

This is usually a walk with plentiful butterflies, but not this day. Yet here are those we did see along our walk on 1st June 2026 🔼 ⏫ Painted Ladies are everywhere this year! 🔽 Though some look a little … Continue reading →

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CCC091: All Over Buzzing With Excitation

Oh, look! Lulabelle looked at her mother Eyes so wide Leaping, clapping Now flying high All-over buzzing with excitation Lulabelle spread her hands in mystification What? The flowers The flowers The flowers Lulabelle sniffed Then snorted They’d no pretty scent … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #091

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: Poppies, Roses and More

Here for your enjoyment, some of the flowers seen on our walk on 1st June 2026… Setting the theme for the day 🔼 a beautiful Dog Rose 🔽 and an Opium Poppy, garden escapee 🔼 More Dog Roses 🔽 loads more Poppies, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Arable Ways

1st June 2026 breaks as another fair day. Yay! Cos I know exactly where I want to walk this morning, an arable landscape liberally peppered with wild roses and poppies. It’ll take us two buses to reach our starting point … Continue reading →

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