Tag: Fun
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4. Beware! There’s a loose stone on the step
The step. The dodgy step. I know there’s a loose stone, so usually use the back door, but visitors, occasionally, discover the loose stone themselves. The stone itself isn’t a problem, but when it’s moved, it – sometimes – and I must emphasise sometimes – opens the trap door on the step, delivering visitors to…
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3. Use the doorbell, not the draw–ah, never mind!
The doorbell works sometimes, but not others. The very old doorbell is still connected, and used to work by pulling a heavy rope outside the main doors to the Mansion. It still rings back in the day when it was used, some time years ago, in the Middle Ages, but it doesn’t ring in our…
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2. Who’s that rapping on the door?
This Mansion, it must be said, has its quirks. Changing views from windows, travelling through time, creating whole new rooms within wings that never existed before and completely altering its appearance are but a few of the random things that wouldn’t normally happen to any other building. Given the visitors to the Mansion proper, and…
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1. Unlikely? I’d say so!
Eerily, the Grinds fell silent early. At dusk, those who’d gathered for the Gathering, got up and left to gather elsewhere. The onset of darkness was diminished somewhat by the sudden appearance of a bright, large Full Moon. A Full Moon never the less obscured by wispy clouds on an unusually warm October’s evening. Around…
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The Hex Factor
Toil and troubleIt’s trickery we bubbleAs we boil and chant and sway With eyeballs and newtsAnd cobwebs and fruitsWe welcome the Special Day We gather togetherTo discuss the weatherAnd who should become a frog We plan and we plotTo come up with a spotTo appear on this very blog We use magic and spellsAnd shriek…
The Mansionic Perspective 