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 ?

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