The Dark Side of the Moon and here also is the accompanying photo
- Attfield Dutt
- 2 days ago
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The Dark Side of the Moon
The world watched with bated breath as four astronauts successfully blasted off from NASA last night to journey to the far side of the moon, the side we never see, and without actually landing, to go further into space than anyone has before.
If you’ve seen my short story collection FRESH BEGINNINGS you’ll remember that the first story in the book, Visitors, happens on the day men first walked on the moon in 1969, a memorable event for the whole world but one which passes by the storyteller Jennifer because it is the day of her father’s funeral in Golders Green. I wrote it originally for the publisher Bridge House, who wanted stories about significant personal events which coincided with some big international landmark that took everyone else’s attention. They chose another of my stories instead for their collection ON THIS DAY, but later they published this one in my collection FRESH BEGINNINGS with illustrations by Kate Attfield – she did rather a nice one of an astronaut hopping around the moon. It was based of course on my own father’s death later the same year.
Today there’s certainly a lot going on down here while the Fab Four are journeying steadily away from the earth as we speak. This morning for instance I heard a head of state, a Christian apparently, promising to bomb another country “into the stone age where they belong.”
But what’s happening in your life? Does it absorb you, or are you more interested in outer space? As for me, our cherry tree has just started to blossom – a glorious time of year. My granddaughter Orianna Furse has just made me a bag for the pegs on the line in the garden, and my daughter has come to dye my hair in rather an interesting shade… And I’m absorbed in writing the sequel to my earlier novel A DISTANT VOICE IN THE DARKNESS. Life is busy!
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