Read a taster chapter ~ 'Fleabane a Fairy Tale'

Deep in the heart of Easdale Wood lay the sleepy Fairy village of Loosestrife.

In Victorian times, Fairies had a saying “Oh, to live in Loosestrife. Where all strife be lost ”. But it was only a saying, they didn’t really mean it. Loosestrife was a very dull place indeed and no self respecting Fairy would ever visit, except by mistake.    

    Loosestrife had one main road, Forking Larkspur Lane. The lane ran straight through the village and out again on the other side, in a ‘Glad that’s over’ sort of way. There was another smaller path called the Hedgehop Way, a meandering pathway, which the local Fairies used to get about more slowly.

There were just a handful of Fairy dwellings on Forking Larkspur Lane. The first, a rather large and imposing place, Digitalis House, ‘Home for Misplaced & Waylaid Fairy Sproglets’, an orphanage. Across the lane was the village store ‘Mallow & Burdocks’ which sold everything a Fairy could possibly need but not particularly want, and then a couple of Fairy cottages straggled along the lane after that.

   The Pigsty was the last building on Forking Larkspur Lane. An old barn, it had lain empty as long as the Fairies could remember. It was said to be haunted and Sproglets from the orphanage were threatened with being locked inside for a night as a punishment if they were naughty.

   The only landmark of any interest in the village was a very large blue teapot that stuck out like a sore thumb. Nobody knew how it got there, but it had been too heavy for the Fairies to move, so there it had stayed.

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'Fleabane' by Honeysuckle Harebell

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