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Another Full Moon

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The full moon leaked across the balcony as the red-head woman looked out into the sky; suddenly she saw Joan, Francis and Scatty, who were hovering on broomsticks: ‘one for you too,’ said Scatty, ‘they are all made with hardwood and jute, and strong and light,’ – ‘come on, hurry,’ said Joan, ‘time to party – we are going around the moon – you’ll see,’ and off they go.

They were flying down the Seine and then the ocean appeared, ‘let’s go to New York,’ shouted Francis, ‘you can see the Café and Bistro, and I think you’ve been there haven’t you?’ – ‘well, kind of,’ muttered the red-head.

They crossed the water keeping with the moon, and then they landed: ‘well,’ said the red-head, ‘I’m going in and quickly skirted around the room,’ – at that moment, the Bartender was wiping a cloth on the sparkling table, as she looked up and smiled, and Mimi also waved happily as she when back to the kitchen; ‘I think I got away with that,’ muttered the red-head.

‘Come on let’s fly to the West Coast; here’s the bridge now, and let’s sit,’ – then the red-head woman hugged her warm fabric as she watched the moon rising again.

But now it’s time to go – and this is the clever bit… ‘widdershins, widdershins, widdershins’ shouted Scatty.

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Did she fall asleep? thought the red-head… did she dream all of this? but no; she looked in her pocket – it was a napkin from SSC&B!

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53 thoughts on “Another Full Moon”

  16. I had to look up widdershins… ‘The term has been recorded since the early 16th century, mainly in Scottish sources. It comes from the Middle High German word widersinnes, which is a combination of wider meaning “against” and sin meaning “direction”. The second element may also be associated with the Scots word sin, which means “sun”. “

    I used to keep a list of new words… I think I need to start that again! (Oh I found it… there wasn’t much in there but I added Widdershins! Thanks for that!

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    • Well, congratulations, Jules! I’m impressed with all those things. But I have known ‘widdershins’ for ages – something about the ‘Scottish Play’ (don’t mention it) from Shakespeare.

      New words are always good, mostly for Scrabble (of course). The ‘widdershins’ is a bit long though, unless you can add ‘shins’ and then ‘widder’.😉

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  18. As a “language person” and Scrabble fan, I found Jules’s explanation of “widdershins” interesting 🤔 I had never heard that word before. “Unbeknownst” to me I can learn vocabulary from the six-sentence stories 😀😀

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