Nobody had seen anything like this before. For two days the thermometer had been steadily falling. The temperature in our valley was more the kind found in the frozen wastes of Siberia. The hills, which would normally be green and purple with heather in the Autumn sunshine were now covered with a thick coating of snow. So deep was it that there had been reports that a steady stream of our local deer had been seen streaming down the lower slopes in long brown lines in their search for food. We drove up to the shores of the loch and instead of a flat sea of ice we were astonished to find that it had almost completely either evaporated or simply vanished into the earth. Only a few marshy pools surrounded the mass of weed that would normally act as food for the fish, visiting Northern geese and our own dabbling ducks. Surveying the area with my binoculars I started to laugh almost uncontrollably. I pointed out the reason for my moment of madness. A long line of what must have been ancient standing stones strectched out in a line across the dry bed. After all these years and sadly for our tourist industry I now had the secret of The Loch Ness Monster.
When the pen takes control. 
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I see it…the stones would work as Nessie 🙂
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Not sure if our followers across the pond will get this but glad you saw what I saw instantly
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Brilliant and it only took this tragedy to expose the mystery of Nessy! 💜💜
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Excellent last line
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Very creative–and very original!
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Ha, brilliant. The last line made me look at the photo in new way and see something I hadn’t noticed before. Nice one.
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Strangely I saw the resemblance to the iconic image instantly, shows how our minds all perceive the same images from vastly different perspectives.
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But too late, for what is Nessie’s worth without its Loch?
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A lovely read, and very clever too.
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