Six Lengthy Sentences!

Keith's Ramblings

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It has to be said that Arthur normally resembles a windswept scarecrow, but something about him had changed, dramatically, “I went to that new barbers shop in town, it’s called A Cut Above”, he said as he patted his glossy smooth hair, “ they also do cuts below”… the ladies of the knitting circle stopped and stared …”no, not below the waist, here”, he said as he stroked his trimmed beard!

“Funny you should mention that”, said a fresh faced Colin, “I went there yesterday to see what I’d look like without my stubble, I usually trim it myself but I fancied going for a cleaner look, well, it was quite late in the afternoon and they were shortly due to close, but I made it just in time – it was a close shave!”

Hoping they’d noticed his pun Colin decided to carry on, “rabbits get a trim at a hare dressers –  I have a phobia of hair, I dreadlocks – grey hair is great, ask anyone that’s bald – he lost his hair years ago but he still has a comb, he just can’t part with it – bees have sticky hair because the use honeycombs – if Satan loses his hair there’ll be hell toupee – I told my wife she’d trimmed her eye brows too high, she looked surprised…….”.

“I gave my back lawn a trim”, said Ted, “the missus kept complaining about the grass tickling her knees when she was hanging out the washing, well, after I’d done it it occurred to me that I could create a mini golf course there, nine holes teeing off from the patio and ending at my man-shed where I’d could sit back and enjoy a can of beer – golf course bars are called the nineteenth, my shed could be renamed the tenth!

Last Sunday Len hosted his annual Baaabecue, there was all the usual fare, sausages, burgers, beef skewers, plus his specialty, French-trimmed lamb chops; his dearly departed wife Maggie always felt guilty serving them because of the way the sheep on the pub sign appeared to watch as she cooked them, so much so, that one year she got Len to stick tape over its eyes! 

Len and Maggie used to have a little sailing boat down at the beach – he wrote a poem about it once, it went something like ‘Maggie and me go out to sea, I trim the sails, we watch for whales’, not that there are any whales down there of course, anyway, he went the ‘toys-for-boys’ shop in town the other day and bought himself a model yacht to float in the pub pond – he’s called it Maggie; she’d have liked that!

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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting Six Sentence Stories where this week’s given word is Trim

24 thoughts on “Six Lengthy Sentences!”

  1. Suzette Benjamin's avatar Suzette Benjamin Jul 3, 2025 / 14:50

    Hilarious take Keith…’can’t part with it,” Well done story telling and love the bits about Maggie.

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  4. Frank Hubeny's avatar Frank Hubeny Jul 3, 2025 / 18:37

    I like how Maggie got Len to cover the sheep’s eye on the sign when she cooked lamb chops.

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  7. beth's avatar beth Jul 3, 2025 / 21:14

    I loved how he brought the conversation to a dead stop with his ‘cut below’ comment!

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  9. clark's avatar clark Jul 4, 2025 / 00:38

    fave line: “...he lost his hair years ago but he still has a comb, he just can’t part with it ”

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  11. Violet Lentz's avatar Violet Lentz Jul 5, 2025 / 15:04

    My favorite reading of the week! This is the best line of the week: if Satan loses his hair there’ll be hell toupee

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