Paris Photographer – Louis Paulin
‘Another fuse has blown again,’ muttered the ancient priest; he turned his head to see a rather striking red-headed woman who had just stood up and dusted herself down, and then beamed; she looked to Francis (whom she knew really rather well, particularly since he was a vampire), and then she looked to the ancient priest – ‘maybe I can help?’ she said.
The ancient priest muttered again: ‘well, I’m not an oracle, that’s for sure, and it isn’t mention in my job description either, but I don’t know what’s the matter with that thing; I’m stumped.’
But now the red-headed woman was able to say: ‘I am a dab hand at many things, including changing fuses, come on let’s do it.’
So they opened the crypt and crept down, and fortunately a large torch was at hand, and it was charged.
She carefully walked across and opened the fuse box, ‘now, the best thing is to turn off all of it, then changed the broken one, and then pushed them all up again,’ as she grinned; and a moment later the crypt was light again, although it was in the underground, of course.
She looked around, ‘there is hardly anything here,’ she looked rather disappointed, as she said: ‘no coffins now then,’ as she looked to Francis; ‘certainly not,’ he replied, ‘all our stuff is much more modern, and in another place anyway, but I guess we don’t need to go there any more, we can just close it down.’
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Di of Pensitivity 101 –Wednesday’s Three Things Challenge: OPEN, OFFAL, ORACLE
Denise Farley of GirlieOnTheEdge
Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt: FUSE
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Wow! She is multi talented lady.
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Ha, ha, she certainly is!
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💕👍🏼💕
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A character with impressive do-it-yourself skills! “Home Improvement” meets “Crypt Improvement.” 🙂
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A great episode.. I love ” off… all…”
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I know… just chopped a word into two (giggling). Thanks, Willow!
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so clever!
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You know I think there’s a series on ‘Crypt Improvement’ on YouTube now!😂
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😂
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Neat use of offal Chris! Thanks for the inclusion.
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Naughty but nice (I thought) – useful words, once again! Thanks, Di.
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🙂 You’re welcome
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Poor Francis…next stop… to a blood donation party🩸
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A blood donation party? Only very occasionally – these vampires are in the 21st century and generally it’s is not required now!
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I was so hoping there were vampire coffins in the crypt. I wonder where the heck they keep them then?
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Well, I’m trying to guess where it might be!
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No coffins in the crypt? That’s progress!
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Yes indeed… but where are they?
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Sold at a yard sale?
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😂😂
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The vampires do not like light, though! Of course, she is a modern one! 😉👾😂👍👍💖
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It’s lucky it’s not too bright in the cemetery for the vampires, but what will that clever lady do next? 🦇🧛😉😊
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but… but! where is the romance in flipping tiny circuit breaker switches?? no the whole semi-ritual of replacing fuses (with their working parts under glass like some industrial religious artifact) looking for the good one among the old ones
…may the fuse go, go unbroken
when I lay my body down…
fun Six
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Deep and deeper… but no one would be back into that crypt (sadly) – or maybe they will?
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There is a lot of intrigue in this.
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…and more as well, I imagine!😉
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The last paragraph is brilliant 🙂
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Aww, thanks very much!😊
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I thought for a moment there was going to be a gargoyle appearance (or two)!
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I was hoping as well. Unfortunately, I ran out of time in this episode… 😂
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I do remember the day of changing fuses, but it occurred to me it has been long ago. From the comment Francis made I can see that even the vampires have gone modern.
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Such as life… even for the vampires, and probably a couple of gargoyles as well (and where are they, by the way).
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It’s nice to have a handylady around, isn’t it. No fuses here any more, but I’m still the only one in the house who can figure out the circuit breakers.
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There we are! It seems that the women are pretty handy… and all around the world as well!
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A modern vampire story, Chris! Those old fuses though… need to update the crypt. 🙂
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Indeed… and it’s a job for that clever red-headed woman (probably).😉
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Remember to look in the cobwebbed corners 😉
I remember watching a ‘Father Brown’ episode where he was rescued because in his church there was a ‘vent’ under a rug that led to the maze of tunnels that connected to the cellar of an older mansion that had a skelton guarding a treasure – the person that turned to the skelton got stuck because the secret passage from the fire place had closed!
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Ooh, I don’t think I’ve seen that one. Sounds a good one though. Pretty much all of them are good anyway.😊
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The way to open the passage was to press certain decoative tiles in a particular order. If you didn’t prop the door open it would automatically swing shut. Father Brown had put his umbrella in the door, but the woman who followed him had takenen it out…
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How brilliant! (well, eventually)
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🙂
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I was waiting for some mishap but no – fooled again! She was just being helpful and dare I say, kind?? Or is this just the prelude to mayhem?
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Well, it’s the full moon next time, and I am pretty sure there is much mayhem in the night… all those bats, vampires etc, etc – well we’ll see!
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Ooh! I’m looking forward to it!!
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The red-headed woman has impeccable timing, doesn’t she! Huge disappointment, no coffins. She and Francis no doubt will be moving on to somewhere more exciting.
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The red-headed woman was sure that Francis was about to say something… And where are those two gargoyles? – still wondering about that.
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The red headed woman wears a lot of hats, yet she was surprised to find the crypt had no coffins. The modern vampire probably “has an app for that.” Nice one Chris.
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I love the idea about several apps! Hmm, that’s a thought…🤔
Thanks, Darnell😉
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