Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
This week Crimson’s Creative Challenge gives us good vibrations in the woods on Mousehold Heath, just outside the City of Norwich. You get a fabulous view of the city from there. The beech trees with their mounds and neighbouring paths
A tapestry of colours in this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. Although…it’s not one of the Challenge photos, it’s one from the Sunday post that inspired me more. It’s what happens when you decide you need more coloured pencils to do
This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge is a hut in the woods. I had a little trouble getting inspired by the choices this week, but I’ve been reading time travel books, so my head wasn’t in the right places. It’s 170
A gull, on a buoy. I saw a fair number of gulls at Pagham Harbour this week, the day before the storm. The clouds were magnificent. But back to work… This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge is light on words, but
How long is too long to dither about what to write? This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge gave me a lot of trouble. I just couldn’t decide which of the pictures to go with. So I resorted to a quick flash
This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge takes us to this lovely holiday villa in a mystery location. There are hints of water sports nearby, with the life buoy mounted on the side. And maybe the palms are not indigenous, if you
I discovered a bridge for all seasons. This is not quite the prompt for this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. I’ve borrowed one of the other pictures she showed on her Sunday walk, and sort of mixed it up with the
A Bridge of Sighs is my take on this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. I was challenged to make a choice from the four photos: nothing really sprang to mind, although, having read the previous posts where the images were previewed,
It’s a nice garden fork, I like that style. This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge reminds me of how my vegetable patches used to look. Maybe I’ll get them back under control next year. It’s only 117 words this week. Can
This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge gave me plenty of choice. I ended up picking something old, rusty , and of no use to anyone. And realised that I’d never mentioned Jo’s Junk Shop in all the Viridian series books. So
Plenty of choice for this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge but I chose the conkers. Is the fruit of the horse chestnut tree are known as a conker in other lands? The sport of ‘conkers’ involves hitting your opponent’s conker, which
We’re still with the sails, but of a different sort in this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. I picked the second image this week. It’s of a derelict post mill completely covered in ivy. It takes me back to my princelings
My choice of this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge takes me back to the first time I visited the Broads as a teenager. I loved seeing the yachts sailing by me, through the marshes and the farmland! I picked the second
The Perfect Apple finally takes us away from dribbles about Pete and the Swede and makes me do some work for a change. I confess I find it extremely easy to write stories about those men. This week Crispina Kemp’s
Memories of Lace continues my anecdotes about Pete and the Swede (Lars) that didn’t make it into the Quest for Orichalcum, which is out next Tuesday. As this is for Crispina Kemp’s lovely Crimson’s Creative Challenge, based on one of