Well, it's not everyday that you actually get woken up by a ghost that you didn't believe in, but there it was (he?) - a fuzzy apparition perhaps imagined more than actually manifesting before your shimmering eyes in the night (shimmering to eyes as tinnitus is to ears) - and the thud of the door as it fell from it's hinges to the floor. It (he) was assumed to be the grumpy man who lived 89 years alone in the old house, leaving crates and crates of dusty homemade wine in the basement, bottled in old milk bottles stopped with rag wrapped wooden corks...the wine amber, some floaty bits, no one had ever dared try it. So, grumpy as he was, and annoyed we suppose at folk moving in, he comes through the door and blows if off its hinges.

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JWW (joined over 13 years ago)

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