Digging graves comes with its own dangers, cold weather and falling into large holes being some of the more mundane perils, but when the witch moon looms large there is the chance that the dead in the earth around you aren't quite as still as you might like.
Indeed, it takes a strong arm to both dig the graves and to fend off the cold, grasping hands of the unliving disturbed by the bite of your shovel in the soil. But someone has to do it.
It gets awkward when you see someone you know.
Paddy Dobson
16th July 2023