AT THE PARTY AT POPPY’S PLACE

Gert bumped along in the tree on the shoulder of  the Strong Man and more and more people joined the line. The funny little fella with the pointed hat danced and yelled the whole way and the Strong Man grunted and groaned and sweated so much that Gert thought  she might drown in perspiration.  As soon as he bent down and put the tree on the ground Gert jumped off and ran as fast as she can.  She knew that she had better hide for a while and work things out.

Now Gert had never seen a house and she had never seen anyone wearing anything more than a gumnut hat so she was pretty excited to see so many new things.

IN THE BUSH

The Gumnut children live in the Triflora Bush.

There are no bears living in the Triflora Bush.

Well, usually there are no bears living in the Bush but the Children had heard about Irene and Jarvis and they were rather frightened.

The children hid behind leaves and they hid behind branches and they hid inside flowers. They were looking out for Irene who could eat them in one little bite.

Snip! Snap!

Unfortunately, the tree where Gert Gumnut was hiding, suddenly lifted right out of the ground. It gave Gert quite a shock.

At first, she thought it was Irene but Irene would have been singing and Gert had not heard a thing.

She looked out through the leaves and saw the biggest strongest man she had ever seen. He had the whole tree on his shoulders. Next to him a funny little fella with a pointy hat was leaping up and down and taking and talking.

Come on. Come on. We need the wood for the fire for the Party. Hurry up! Hurry Up !

Gert tried to call out but noone heard her. She rustled the tree but noone noticed. In the end , she decided to hang on and enjoy herself. It looked like she was going to a party.

The funny little fella kept calling out and all sorts of people started to follow the Strong Man and the Tree. They were following Gert Gumnut as well – but she was the only one who knew that.

Gert was a little Gumnut from the Triflora Bush and she had never seen such strange people wearing such strange clothes before.

Wow! This could be one funny party !

BEARS

 

TRIFLORA is well known for its bears. They like it down there. There are plenty of trees and forests and a Bear is welcome to build any kind of home it wants to.

Most of the bears in Triflora are charming.

Most of the bears in Triflora are friendly and VERY well educated. They just love learning.

BUT – every now and then, a Triflora bear goes completely NUTS.  It’s a very frightening thing when a Bear goes Nuts. It usually means that they have been eating the Honey of the Red-Bellied Black Bees who have their hives at the entrance to the dark place where trouble is living.

Sometimes they can be helped and then they become almost normal again.

JARVIS BEAR IN THE UNBEARABLE FOREST.

Sometimes they simply have to be put into the Unbearable Forest and allowed to do whatever it is that a bear does when it goes nuts. The Unbearable Forest has an invisible fence around it so that noone can accidentally walk into the Crazy Bears and the Bears cannot get out. The Triflora Bears made the fence invisible so that the Bears who had gone Nuts didn’t even know they were locked in. Things were hard enough for them without their feeling like they were locked up.

IRENE BEAR.

Just this week, Irene Bear totally lost the plot. Irene is well known for her beautiful clothes and wonderful singing voice. It seems that her voice was croaky one day and then croaky the next day and she could hardly sing at all.

It really wasn’t a good enough reason to try the Honey of the Red-Bellied Black Bees but that’s what Irene did. She wanted to sing and off she went, right to the edge of Trouble and ate far too much sweet honey.

Well – she’s now running wild down near Trouble. No Bear has even been able to catch her or trick her into the Unbearable Forest. She is not singing AT ALL. Just growling and dribbling blood because she did something no Triflora Bear would ever do. She is killing things and eating them. It NEVER pays to play at the edge of Trouble.

We might need to look for some real help before she does anything else.

When things get as bad as they are for Irene and Jarvis, the time has come to send the Messengers off to get some bigtime help.

Eastward of the Sun and Westward of the Moon – that’s where Kris, the white bear and Luciana live. If there is any way to help Irene and Jarvis, these two will know what it is.

In the meantime – do NOT go walking in the Forests or Bush and make sure you are safe when you go to sleep. Jarvis is safely behind the fence for now but Irene is still wandering around and she is not at all herself.

The only thing left about Irene is her singing voice. She ate so much honey that she is singing sweeter than ever – but don’t get tricked. She will eat you JUST LIKE THAT !

ONE DAFFY DAY

Life in Triflora is always a little unusual to people from the World Up Top.

Today it was a lot more than UNUSUAL. It was completely DAFFY.

When things go DAFFY, then everything is rather crazy.

People don’t say or do what they usually say or do. 

When things go DAFFY, the sky is the wrong colour and the grass grows shorter instead of longer.

When things go DAFFY, people tell VERY silly jokes and then they laugh and laugh even though the jokes are NOT funny.

Today, some of the people in Triflora went completely DAFFY.

Skinny Skunk spread perfume all day instead of her usual terrible smell. She followed the Mad Monk all over the place and people wondered why he smelt so sweet. Mad Monk kept knocking on doors and asking everyone about Flamingoes.

“Do flamingoes have fluffy pink bits ? ”

He would not tell anyone why he wanted to know. Just kept asking about the flamingoes.

As soon as Poppy heard about the Daffy people, she called Jenny Wren because she knew they would need  a Healer to fix people up.  Even the Carrot family was acting Daffy. They were just standing  in the garden. Not one bit of them was in the dirt. They just stood there. 

Hmm – said Poppy –  I need to find out what has made them all so daffy today.

Hmmm- said Jenny Wren –  I need to find a way to stop them being so daffy.

Round about then Nana and her Friends came flying in. They are extremely old and they know most things about most things.

When Nana and ALL her friends get together, then there is Magic spilling out all over the place. That seems to be what happened today.

Oh Whoops !  said Nana.

Oh Whoops! said all her friends.

SORRY. Sorry. sorry. So sorry.  They will all be OK in a little while. WE had a picnic and forgot all about the magic spilling out.

So – that’s what caused the Daffy Day. Just a few old friends having a picnic with a bit of magic left over. All the Daffy people are asleep now. Let’s see how they feel in the morning!

 

SAFFRON’s EDUCATION IN TRIFLORA.

Saffron was going to go to school in the World Up Top.

She went once and she liked it.

She went one more time and she still quite liked it.

She played with other kids. Her Mumma was there too and she liked the teachers BUT all of the time that she was at School in the World Up Top, Saffron was thinking about all the things she could be doing in Triflora. Saffron was thinking about the Rose and the Poppy who would play with her and teach her all kinds of things.

That was the day that she decided to show Triflora to her Mumma.  Mumma didn’t know that Nana already lived down there. Saffron said to her mother;  Let’s have a picnic down the back of our place. So, they went down near the wallabies to have their picnic. Nana was on the other side of the Fairy Doorway, ready to whisper Triflora.

Whisper this word, Mumma. said Saffron. TRIFLORA. 

Well I guess you know what happened next !

Boy, was Mumma surprised ? Her molecules whirled and swirled and there they were in the wonderful world of Triflora.  Now Saffron goes to school down in the Secret Garden.

Nana is happy about that.

Mumma is happy about that.

Saffron is happy about that.  She is learning heaps of things in Triflora and has friends of all kinds. One day, Mrs Cockatoo taught them all to dance. None of them wore any clothes – just hats.

Saffron Lola learned to sew with a needle and some silk. Poppy taught her how to do that. They sat on red cushion with golden tassels and they ate jelly with berries from the Forest. NOT from the Disenchanted Forest near the Witches’ Home.

The Berries came from the Forest between Poppy’s Place and the Dragon Caverns . Its called the Musical Forest and Lilli Pilli lives there in her cottage. Everything that grows in the Musical Forest is especially delicious and nourishing. 

Triflora grows the very best food and has the very best water.  Saffron grows crocus flowers. She is very little but she is the ONLY one who can grow a Crocus as beautiful as she can.

 

Sometimes, Saffron helps Pearl on the farm. Pearl has a DVD about the World Up Top.

Saffron and Mumma could hardly believe it was true. People locked up the animals and built cages and factories and it was horrible!  That does NOT happen in Triflora. Every week Pearl and Poppy give great big boxes of food to anyone in Triflora who wants some.  Everybody helps out and Wednesdays are very happy days indeed!

Pearl lives in a windmill on the Farm. Saffy loves to visit her. She has geese nearly as big as Saffron and somehow, the weather is always JUST RIGHT for whatever it is that Pearl is doing.

It rains when she needs rain.

The sun  shines when she needs sunshine.

The wind blows when needs the Wind.

And the windmill turns and turns, very gently. Pearl’s Mill is pretty close to Poppy’s Place and a lot of Yaaning goes on in those two places.

 

 

Mumma was rather shocked when she discovered all the things Saffron was doing while Mumma and Dadda thought she was sleeping.

They didn’t know that she sat on the moon and jumped right off it.

They didn’t know that she played with the Rose’s Dragons and worked in Poppy’s shop.

They didn’t know that Nana and Izzy knew all about it !

They didn’t know that she sewed with a sharp needle and danced around without any clothes on at all.

BUT THEY DID KNOW THAT SHE WAS VERY HAPPY.

Mumma is very happy as well because now she can come and go to Triflora whenever she wants and when she is down there she has special powers.

NAME.   (Kate) Hazel Goblinfilter SPECIAL POWERS:   NOONE AND NOTHING CAN LIE WHEN THEY TALK TO HER. BEST QUALITY:  SHE SHINES A MAGIC LIGHT. WORST HABIT:  SHE CAN BE A LITTLE BIT TRICKY. WHERE SHE LIVES: SHE LIVES IN THE DARKEST, MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE GARDEN. JOB IN THE GARDEN: TO BRING LIGHT TO THE DARK CORNERS OF THE GARDEN.

MORE TRIFLORA NEWS

 

	To all the Big Ships sailing on the Perfumed Sea. Don’t forget that the Leaf and Seed Ships are on the water too and they are MUCH smaller than you are. Please keep your eyes open and take good care of the little ones.
	To the TRIFLORA CHOIR. Our next meeting is on Wednesday Night at half past seven at Poppy’s Place. We will be singing the song called: THE OLD MAN IN LEATHER. Bring your best singing voice with you.
	Old Donna Dee is out and about again. She was at Poppy’s Place this morning and she was just as cranky as ever. Poppy was very pleased to see her because she knows that Old Donna Dee is not really nasty. She just aches in her back and is very old. That’s why she gets cranky. She is 522 years old now and just wants someplace comfortable to sit.
	THE MUSIC WE have a visitor in the Garden. He has come from the World Up Top to stay for a little while. He has an instrument with only one string. Remember that if the MUSIC ever stops, then something terrible will happen.  We are always happy to have a Musical Visitor to keep the Terrible Things quiet and this Visitor walks around of an evening and plays outside all the walls of Triflora.
The IMPCHKINS have had enough of Brian Bear.	BEARS AND HONEY. Brian Bear and Fred Fox are in a bit of trouble. Brian has been back in the Impchkins’ Forest again and gobbling up their honey as fast as he can. The Impchkins have asked him not to gobble the honey. The Impchkins have told Nana and Poppy about it. But Brian smells that honey and just plain goes crazy.
We have come to help fight the trouble ! Gloriana and the Turtle Army. ( I think that one day we will need the Turtle Army.)	TURTLE ARMY. Gloriana was laughing when she came into Poppy’s Place yesterday. She had been down at the edge of the Perfumed Sea collecting shells when out of the water came hundreds and hundred of turtles.  She was very surprised and asked them what they were doing. The first turtle told her that they were the Turtle Army. They had come to help fight the Trouble that was starting when Nana and Izzy were away at the Purple Haze Retirement Village. The Turtle Army moved so slowly that by the time they reached the beach, Nana and Izzy had already been back for weeks and weeks and Trouble was back in hiding.
HAS ANYONE SEEN MOTHER RABBIT ? Mother said she was going out for a little while and told Baby Rabbit to wait in the nest for her but she hasn’t come home yet. Has anyone seen her ?	FAIRY GATHERING. FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT.

THE BABY IN THE BASKET

If you read the TRIFLORA NEWS this week, then you know about the man throwing the basket off the stone bridge.

We found out just last night that there was a baby in the basket but NOT an ordinary baby – a Seashellian baby.

All week, we thought the Man was up to something strange and if we had known that it was a baby he had thrown off the bridge – well – it would have been a very bad thing indeed. Now that Baby Jacques is living with Nerissa,we have asked him a question or two but he is still very little and can’t talk very much so we do not know the whole story yet.

We do know that he can breathe on land AND underwater just like Nerissa.

We do know that he has little gills up near his ears.

We don’t know who the man was.

We don’t know why the man threw him off the stone bridge in his basket.

One thing we DO know is that Baby Jacques laughs a lot and is a rascal. He runs and swims and plays tricks. We call him B.J. Baby Jacques.

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Nerissa and B.J. have been out swimming. They found the basket at the bottom of the river and inside was a waterproof note. Here is the note that was in B.J.’s basket.

Now, we have three mysteries.

1. Who were B.J.’s parents ?

2.Who are Oster and Aci ?

3. Who is B.J’s sister and where is she now ?

NERISSA AND THE BASKET

Ellen NAME: Nerissa Ellen Marina SPECIAL POWERS: Can live on land and underwater BEST QUALITY: Trusting WORST HABIT: Forgetting that not everyone has gills WHERE YOU LIVE: In the well JOB IN TRIFLORA: Protect the water	The hunt for the basket that was thrown off the bridge has been going on for 5 days now. The Keepers have been looking. Nana and her Friends have been looking. The Birds have been looking. The Sailors and the Pirates have been looking. All the Water People and Creatures have been looking but nothing had been found till this morning.
“Nerissa! Nerissa! There is a baby in the river!”	Funny how things work out ! Not one of the Searchers found anything at all. Nerissa, who is Protector of the Water, could not think of one more thing to do. Boy, was she surprised to hear two voices calling to her. She knew THOSE voices. It was the Owl and the Pussycat.  (I will tell you more about them one day.) The Owl and the Pussycat have great plans for sailing off in their Pea Green Boat. They have been training for a very long time. Sometimes they simply row around in circles but today they actually set sail and were practically flying down the river when KABOOMPH ! The pea green boat hit a barrel floating in the water. It gave them quite a shock but it was more of a shock to see a little baby boy bounce off the top of it and into the river. They looked and looked through their binoculars. They could see a little island but they could not see a little boy.
Nerissa’s Home.	Nerissa could hear them but she wasn’t in any kind of a hurry. Nerissa doesn’t have many things wrong with her. She can live in land or underwater. Her home is in the well at the edge of the River and she loves to sleep right down at the bottom under the water. Nerissa trusts People and trusts that “everything will be O.K.” She protects the water and everything in the water and on the water. The one thing that can be a bit of a problem with Nerissa is that she just plain forgets that most people don’t have gills.
“ Nerissa ! Nerissa ! It’s a Baby ! It does NOT have gills! It cannot breathe underwater ! “	Gills are the things which let Merpeople and Fishes breathe under the water. She forgets that most people will DROWN if they stay underwater for more than 2 minutes because most people do not have gills. So, Nerissa was not in a hurry at all – but the Owl and the Pussycat were in ONE BIG HURRY. Owls and Pussycats do not have gills and they cannot breathe underwater. The Owl and the Pussycat knew that the Baby Boy was in Big Trouble.
“I do be home, Nerissa !”	When Nerissa heard the Owl and the Pussycat coming up her steps and yelling out as loudly as they possibly could – she realised straight away that it was an EMERGENCY and dived down her well and was about to swim out into the river when an amazing thing happened. A Baby Boy with came riding in on the back of a shark. It was NOT a MerBaby. MerPeople have tails like fish. And he was not in any kind of danger at all. It was a Baby with legs. He was smiling at Nerissa laughing out loud. Nerissa was very excited. She had been NEVER met another SeaShellian in her whole life. Someone who could live on the land AND under the water.  Now, here was this Baby Boy and it looked like he was going to stay.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE GILLS OF A SEASHELLIAN.	What a wonderful day !
Nerissa sent the Owl and the Pussycat back to Nana to tell everyone what had happened.  Then she started to ask the little fellow a LOT of questions, but he just wrapped his arms around her and fell asleep. All the questions can wait until tomorrow.	One more thing – when she asked him his name, he didn’t tell her but he did whisper these words to her “ I have a sister.”

IZZY’S NEWS : PAGE 3.

TRIFLORA NEWS	PAGE 3. Izzy’s Page.
	They used to call me a  Dawdling No-Hoper. Well, let me tell you – Dawdling No-Hopers see a LOT of things. There are some things you only see if you walk ever so slowly and take time for little rests. I have a Starwagon for when I need to travel fast and far. Now, what news do I have for this week?
First up this week is a word to all the children with bows and  arrows.  BE CAREFUL. I saw Ferdinand down in the Rose Orchard and he was shooting arrows all over the place. The Robin  gave him a good talking to because he scared all the birds and I gave him a good talking to – but when I looked around he was STILL shooting arrows – all over the place. I KNOW you would never shoot your arrows all over the place.
ROCK MOVE. FRIDAY MORNING. SEE YOU THERE.	Next Friday, Stone Mountain is having a Rock Move. The last time that the Dragonness roared, she roared so loudly that 57 rocks tumbled down the hill and blocked the path into Stone Mountain Village. The Stone People have tried everything to move them – but – as you know – they are very little people. If you can help them move the Rocks come along on Friday Morning.  We might even be able to  build a new stone house with the rocks we move.
the BIRD PATROL MOTTO Flying High. Flying Low. There’s no place that a Bird can’t go.	BIRD PATROL FOR THIS WEEK. Rhonda the Red Grenfell the Green Brian the Brown. Messages to the Bird Patrol. 1. Ferdinand has been firing arrows all over the place. Take good care when you are flying near  the Rose Orchard. 2. A man was seen throwing a basket from the top of the stone bridge near Nana and Izzy’s Towers.  We do not know what was in the basket.  Everyone is looking for it.

NANA’S NEWS : PAGE 2.

THE TRIFLORA NEWS	From Nana and her Friends.
WHY IS THE WOLF SO THIN ?	You don’t  often see a hungry wolf in Triflora. You don’t often see anything or anyone hungry down there in the Garden. We have plenty of food. BUT The day before yesterday, a very thin wolf found its way into one of the houses and scared the pants off the people who live there. Noone has a key in Triflora and unless Trouble is coming, we don’t  have too much to worry about locking anything up at all .
	Delroy and Ethelred are very good friends. Delroy is one very strong man.  Ethelred is one very helpful man. Delroy does sometimes wonder what help Ethelred actually is.  He certainly doesn’t carry anything very heavy. Delroy doesn’t really mind because Ethelred is a very good friend.

TRIFLORA NEWS. PAGE 1. NANA’S NEWS.

THE TRIFLORA NEWS	from Nana and her Friends.
PAGE 1. NANA’S NEWS.
	The Milk in Triflora is always fresh. Fresh and straight from the Cows. I was walking past the milking shed the other day when I heard a BANG and a BASH. When I looked in the door, Arabella was on the ground. Her stool had been knocked over and her bucket of milk was spilt all over the place. Bettina, the cow, says that she didn’t do it but she looks very suspicious to me.
CLIFTON IS A VERY BRAVE Mouseling.	I walked on and left them to it. Arabella will know just what to do. She has been milking cows for 1223 years. _____________________ Just past the Milking Shed is Mousely. The Mice like to live near the Cows.  I am not quite sure why. The Mouse  People are very tiny and they love to wear fancy clothes just like the Little Ones do. Clifton was looking very well dressed  when I came to the entrance to Mousely and he was riding Deanna who is the most beautiful of all the Mice. He must have been going somewhere SPECIAL.
	I see some interesting things when I am walking around. I see some good things.  I see some things which are bad. Yesterday morning, I saw a very strange thing. A man walked to the top of the little stone bridge near my tower and threw a basket over and into the water.
All the Water People are looking for the basket. I wonder what was in it.	Straight away, I called  Mickey, the AquavespaGirl, to find out what was in the basket but she could not find it. The Man ran off as fast as he could and I have sent Mickey and our Guards after him. ______________________ IF YOU KNOW WHO THE MAN IS AND WHAT WAS IN THE BASKET, PLEASE LET US KNOW IN THE BOX BELOW.

KEEPING AN EYE ON THINGS

Nana and the her friends keep an eye on what’s happening all over Triflora. 

Little old ladies in black and little old men can walk just about anywhere they want and noone notices at all.

Little old ladies in black and little old men with beards and long hair can sit for HOURS on a bench and noone wonders what they are doing.

Little old ladies and little old men can ask very private questions and people tell them exactly what’s going on.

Most people don’t think for one moment that it could be Nana and her Friends.

Most people don’t think for one moment that each little old lady and each little old man has a special magic power – as well as a mobile phone and a tiny computer.

You can hide a lot of good things in all those black clothes.

Come for a little look around Triflora with Nana and her Friends.

FIERY DRAGONS

DRAGONS AND THE DRAGON PEOPLE

THE DRAGON PEOPLE.

The Rose is not the only one taking care of the Dragons. Most of them live in the Castle on top of the Caverns and ALL of them have a Dragon somewhere on the clothes or their jewellery . ALL of them have at least one Dragon tattoo.

Dragon People have one more secret as well but I have never been able to find out what it is. I do believe that ONLY Dragon People can ever know that secret.

THE KINGFISHER

 

Sometimes, people and creatures accidentally find their way into Triflora. That’s what happened with the beautiful King of the Kingfishers. He was not trying to get into the Fairy Garden at all.  He was just following Saffron because he LOVED her red hair. When she went up to the Big Fig Tree in Bellingen and whispered Triflora, the King of the Kingfishers did not know that she was calling to Rose and Poppy. Saffron did everything right. She looked to her left. She looked to her right.  She looked all around before she pointed to the secret entrance and whispered Triflora. She even had Nana and Mumma with her.

They didn’t see any people. They didn’t see any Trouble. They didn’t see anything following them. But the King of the Kingfishers was right there. Tiny. The King was very surprised to see them all disappear right inside the Big Fig Tree.

It gave the King such a shock that he flew straight into the hard trunk of the tree and dropped unconscious to the ground.  When he lifted up his head, the door to Triflora was still open – just a little – and the King ducked in without thinking. The next thing he knew he was being whirled and swirled  and all his molecules were rearranged till he was one tiny little bird in the middle of Triflora.

Now, this caused a real panic in Triflora.

I shall tell you why, later.

In the Meantime, a call was sent out for jenny Wren to come as soon as she could !

SITTING AROUND IN TRIFLORA : PART 3.

There is always MUSIC and DANCING at POPPY’S PLACE.

Poppy’s Place is the Number One Place to meet up and sit around in the whole of Triflora. It started as just a little stall selling bits and pieces. Poppy and Rose and Saffron started it one day at Nana and Izzy’s House. Just selling bits and pieces. As I told you – noone uses money.  Just Love and Magic and Good Thinking.

When they discovered Triflora, well, they knew just what to do.  Rose was VERY busy with her Dragons and Saffron is still a bit young so Poppy became the Shopkeeper and the others help when they can.

Before Poppy’s Place, people had to hunt all over the Triflora when they wanted or needed anything. If they had things to give away, like extra fruit or clothes they didn’t need anymore, they had nowhere to take them. 

It’s not like that now. POPPY’S PLACE is just the very best spot to go. It has grown and grown and it brings an extra bundle of happiness into the Garden.

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POPPY’S PLACE.

Nana and Izzy do most of the sitting around. You can come talk to them almost any time unless they are up in the towers or out adventuring. ( And of course, there was that time that they went missing at the PURPLE HAZE RETIREMENT VILLAGE. ) Almost always, you can come sit down and have a talk. Here are some of their stories. When you have a shop in Triflora, there is only one thing to do :

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED.

One night, this little man came calling at the Door. He is NOT one of the Little Ones. Noone knows who he is. He is NOT  a wizard.  He flew down. None of us saw him walk. He wanted a new pair of pants. And he stretched his hands out.  They had to be THAT long. Luckily, Poppy had just the right pair.
OFF TO BED YOU TWO. SWEET DREAMS.	One little girl came to live in the shop. She didn’t say she was g0ing to live there. She just came to the door. She didn’t even tinkle the bell curtain in the doorway. People were sitting around talking and noone even noticed her. She had a very sad face and she carried a cleaning rag. She cleaned the front step and then she cleaned the windows. Mr Wallace and Mr Starr were sitting inside drinking frangipani ale. Willie was watching from behind the counter. The girl cleaned each bell on the curtain – one by one – without making a single sound. Not one person said one word. They didn’t want to frighten her. She began to clean the floor of the shop.  Bump ! The little girl backed into a chair. She turned around and sitting right there on that chair was the beautiful doll that Mr Wallace and Mr Starr had br0ught in. The doll’s eyes were just as sad as the little girl’s until they saw one another. I will not tell you anymore about them just yet. I will just tell you that the girl lives here in the Shop and the doll lives here in the Shop and their eyes are  not sad anymore. ( The little girl’s name is Gosette and the doll’s name is Lucinda. )
Cats are not welcome at the Shop when Nana is there. You know that. The other thing she won’t have around are DRAGONS. She likes Dragons. She knows that Dragons have their uses. But she will not have them near the Shop. She soon sends them skedaddling back to Rose and to their own place.

Don’t feel too sorry for the Dragons. I will show you a  Photo of Dragonville. Not bad at all !

DON’T FORGET – POPPY IS ALSO THE DETECTIVE. SHE SEES AND HEARS A LOT OF THINGS IN THE SHOP. DO NOT GO THERE IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE.

SITTING AROUND IN TRIFLORA : PART 2.

Sitting around in Triflora is not quite the same as sitting around at your house. At Poppy’s Place, all kinds of different things happen from time to time.

ALWAYS check your teacup BEFORE you pour the hot tea in.  Little Leroy thinks teacups are the BEST place to sleep and unless Mickey has been around making a lot of AquaVespa noise, he just might still be in there- sound asleep.

We do not want to pour boiling hot tea on Little Leroy.

Lots of little people come to  Poppy’s Place.  Leroy is the only one who sleeps in the Cups and Nana enjoys the visits from the Little Ones. It makes her feel quite tall.

Poppy’s Place is a very relaxed place to be but the Little Ones have strange ideas about Relaxing. They NEVER come to Poppy’s Place unless they are dressed in their very best clothes. I think they are extremely old-fashioned but I would never tell them that. Their feelings get hurt so easily!

In Triflora, many small beings live in many different places but the Little Ones ( with a capital L and a capital O) are not just small – they are THE Little Ones. They dance at Poppy’s and they choose things very carefully from the shop. They TALK with people but they do not CHAT. The Little Ones come shopping at the same time on the same day every week. They always say Please and they always say Thank You. 

I have not been to the Land of the Little Ones. I don’t think anyone else has been there either.

I wonder whether they relax when they get home. Hmmmmm.

( Except, of course, for Little Leroy who relaxes all the time and is almost never polite. )

COLOUR ME IN : THE FAIRY ARTIST

SITTING AROUND IN TRIFLORA

POPPY BRINGING IN VEGETABLES FROM HER GARDEN FOR THE SHOP.

Sometimes, when Trouble is keeping quiet,  Nana sits on a bench at the front of Poppy’s  Place and the people of Triflora come by for a chat. Why don’t you sit down with us now and I shall tell you a little bit more about some of them ?

Strangely enough, Nana does NOT like cats. Its strange because she spends about half her time as a Witch and Witches are SUPPOSED to like cats.

But Nana does not like them.

So when Nana is minding the Shop for Poppy, she will NOT have cats coming to visit – except for LEOX. That’s Leox over there and if you think he is a Lion – you are right. Its probably the only type of Cat that Nana does like.  Leox sits for hours and hours while everyone is having a chat. Leox has a few secrets of his own. Only Leox and Nana know what they are.

Most of the time its quiet and peaceful at Poppy’s Place – specially when Nana is minding the Shop – but when Mickey has had 3 glasses of Blue Water from the South, she ALWAYS decides to take a ride on her AquaVespa.

That’s the end of the quiet !

Mickey is very good at making sure Trouble stays quiet but she makes plenty of noise herself.

VROOM. VROOM. VROOM.

I do not know what is in that Blue Water from the South and I am NOT going to try it because it sure sends her wild. Poppy keeps it hidden in a box under the shop counter and sells it to some of the Triflora People but nobody tells Nana.

SPECIAL GIFT VOUCHER

THE WHITE ELEPHANT

Log Boy Louis learns the Secrets of Triflora

Welcome to Ev.

Ev is our next new Member. He is a wonderful person to have in Triflora. He can paddle any kind of canoe or Kayak and know ALL the magic lagoons and rivers. He is also in charge of Nana’s special vehicle, Alfie. He polishes it and keeps it running perfectly.

Ev is kind and clever and Trilfora is very happy to have him come and live there.

 

SHAKEY COWS

Triflora has been shut down for a long time now. All the doorways have been blocked and strange things have been happening. The time has come for us to begin telling you about them.

ANT

THE TINY MOUSE

 

PIRATE WHO WOULDN’T WASH

THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MOLE

RED RIDING HOOD

LEAPING BEAUTY