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The beautiful moon

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The priest muttered again before leaving to go to a tiny church at the end of the cemetery, ‘hardly anyone goes there anymore, but I’m always speaking very much aloud, since most of the congregation are completely deaf,’ and with that, he left.

The red-headed woman and Francis were both about to speak, but as usual she jumped in first; ‘strands of hair keep getting in my face, I really need to go to the hairdressers – cut and colour, and vibrant, of course.’

There was not much to say about that, thought Francis, so he launched into almost a speech: ‘you know that it’s a full moon tonight, don’t you, and I believe you remember the fiasco several months ago, so we all need to turn it down.’

‘People are very much allowed to walk around our cemetery and including the information about the Large Quarries in the main drag, but I’m putting these notices on all the gates, it says, “no-one is allowed, from sunset to sunrise” – do you think that’s enough?’

‘Sure it’s fine,’ said Joan and Scatty as the two of them appeared, ‘come on,’ said Joan, ‘we can all mingle in the square later, no-one would worry about that,’ – ‘no shape-shifting then I suppose?’ said Scatty.

Later, the red-headed woman appeared in the square; she’d been to the hairdressers, and now she had a new colour on her very short hair, ‘it’s called strawberry blonde – astounding,’ she grinned, ‘just like the strawberry moon, isn’t that right?’

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Di of Pensitivity 101 –Wednesday’s Three Things Challenge: ALLOWED, ALOUD, ASTOUND

 

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41 thoughts on “The beautiful moon”

  11. not to be curmudgeonly* but growing up I don’t recall there being such a variety of moons, full and otherwise

    that said, I still hold gibbous moon close as a total favorite

    ‘cellent Sixifying!

    *yeah, right lol

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  13. I didn’t get to see the strawberry moon either, don’t think it was too visible in Fresno. As Liz commented about dyeing your hair to match the moon, I guess if that’s a new trend, for normal moons I fit right in, because my hair is “silver”!
    😂😂👵🏻

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    • Well, our moon was very silvery this week, presumably since there’s no strawberries at this time here. And of course, anything silvery looks rather fetching for all of us retired people – we can even wave to the moon and back. 🌚

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    • Well, that sounds at least ‘interesting’.

      Oh, and by the way, it’s seems that when I have written on some of your posts they seemed to disappear – spam… again? Most recent was ‘Bruce’ and before was ‘Coast to Coast’ – with Liverpool, of course.

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