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If all the world were upside down

And we wore not a stitch

Into the sky our hats would fly

To make the hatters rich.

My teeth started quarrelling. Of course, I told them to stop falling out.

A couple of days ago I glimpsed my first red rainbow.

If the setting sun creates a rainbow, it's likely that the sun's rays will be red, because the blue part of the spectrum will have been scattered by the atmosphere. So we see a red rainbow. It's quite rare because there has to be rain falling in the eastern sky more or less at the moment of sunset in the west.

It was only little bit of the full rainbow but in my photo, taken looking east, you can get an idea of this rare and beautiful sight.

Q. What do you say when a pastry goes away?

A. Scone.

Surprisingly I found a flint tool in the lane tonight.

Several driveways have just had new gravel put down. This flint must have accidentally got kicked out into the lane. I had absolutely no idea that flint tools can be found in gravel, but it seems it's quite common. People living alongside rivers often dropped or discarded flints that then got rolled down the river with other stones, and collected at a point that centuries later became a gravel pit.

Then it got dug up and carried to near where I live.

All the kids voted for responsibly sourced food, including Fran.

Except she ate her Gran.

Although 'twas met with some defiance,

We threw the children to the lions.

Musing, as we heard them scream,

There's far too many whingers on the team!

Caught in Destiny's Headlamps,

I froze.

In recent days a blue moon has been seen in Beijing.

Long ago and far away, I saw a blue moon. I was travelling over mountains, in a bus, at night. We had heard that far to our east a famous volcano was erupting. We could not see the eruption itself, but when the moon rose over the eastern mountains it was blue, very approximately the colour of faded denim. Everyone was moonstruck (you might say), but we quickly understood we were seeing the moon through the dust plume of the volcano.

The effect arises from dust particles of a particular size that must be rare in the atmosphere, otherwise we'd all see blue moons regularly. In Beijing the dust must have been blown by the wind from deserts to the north.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntDnwBiORu8