TEA DRINKING IN TRIFLORA

You may have noticed by now that there is a lot of tea drinking going on in Triflora.

You may have also noticed that Nana is rather bossy. Bossy isn’t quite the right word. She just looks at people and raises one eyebrow.

When she does that, Cats quietly leave.

When she does that, people drinking coffee decide that coffee is not really very delicious after all. They find themselves asking for a cup of tea instead.

Nana says that it was Coffee that did this to her old friend, Doris Quibbly. Doris doesn’t live like ordinary people anymore. She is WIRED. Wired all the time and it’s been 96 years and 2 months since she drank any coffee at all. Doris lives in the Witches’ Home.

 

Tea, on the other hand, does not make people WIRED at all. Andrew Haymaker drinks one cup of tea every day. He works very hard in Triflora. He collects HAY. Hay feeds the horses and the donkeys and the mules and the unicorns. Hay is kind of like dried grass.  Mervyn the Piper collected Hay when he was a very young man and he had a big blue hay cart but noone has seen him for many years.

Andrew Haymaker has made and collected all sorts of Hay every day of his life and every day of his life, he drinks that one cup of tea.  He has a very ordinary haycart and a good old horse who has one cup of tea a day with Andrew.  This is what Andrew Haymaker and Baxter, the horse, say each day when they are drinking their cup of tea;

“One cup a day and one load of hay!”

They say and do the same things EVERY DAY OF THEIR LIVES. They like routine.

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Phil and Patrick are the Honey Gatherers for Triflora.

Well. They are not the ONLY Honey Gatherers. They are not the biggest Honey Gatherers.

They are the ones who gather Honey for Wizzy.

He does not like sugar. He only likes honey in his tea.

There is plenty of honey in the Bearable Forest. Its easy to gather that honey and most people think it is beautiful honey.

But Wizzy ONLY likes the Honey near Mumma Kate’s place right in the middle of the Unbearable Forest.

Phil and Patrick would do anything for Wizzy – even go past Irene and Jarvis to get the Honey.

Come on, Irene. Leave them alone. You know you cannot stop them. They have the magic of young Wizards.

Best have a cup of tea now and head off to bed.

I think Young Froggy’s Mum will be drinking plenty of tea after the shock she had today when Young Froggy said he was going away to find a girlfriend.

She KNOWS what can happen to Frogs when they kiss real Girls.

Mumma Frog didn’t even know that he liked Girls. Its been quite a surprising day for her. Fill that teapot up, Mumma Frog. You just might need it !

GIVE A BEAR A BAD NAME

“ Oh no! What have we done? The poor men!”

Berenice and Boy Brunosky went out in the Woods today. They were in the BEARABLE FOREST. Nowhere near the UNBEARABLE FOREST.

They were just out walking.

Berenice and Boy Brunosky were singing  as they walked along.

Perhaps they are not the sweetest singers of the Bear World but they ARE very sweet Bears.

Anyhows, along they went. Singing  and laughing. They know some good jokes, those two.

 

Here is one of their favourite jokes :

A little girl with a red riding hood walked up to a house in the Woods and knocked on the door.

3 bears answered the door.

“Does my Grandma live here ? “ she said.

“Yes. “ said the Bears, “ It’s a 2 storey house !!! “

The problem was that the singing and laughing didn’t sound as good to the Forest Men as it did to the Bears.  Ferris and Colin were out wandering around pretending to have real guns when they heard the Two Bears coming.

The ground shook with the laughter of the Bears.

The Trees blocked their branches trying not to hear the Singing which was not a pretty thing to hear – at all.

The little animals scampered off to other places for a while and the birds and flying beings took off for Poppy’s Place for a Cup of Pick me Up Tea.

Ferris and Colin were taken by surprise. They had NEVER heard such a noise before.  Ferris fell face down on the ground and wished his gun was loaded with bullets instead of Sprinkle Water for the Forest.

Colin skedaddled up  a tree and hoped that he was invisible.

Brunosky and his Mum took one good look at Ferris and freaked out. They are the kindest of creatures. They would never harm a single thing. But they had been through this before.

“Whoops!  Whoops! We’ve done it again!”

One thing that Boy Brunosky and Berenice knew was to keep their paws off  the Forest Men. People don’t listen properly to large shaggy Bears trying to apologise. This was a matter for Nana Dolores. Nana Dolores is probably the Daggiest Being in the whole of Triflora. She certainly drinks more Honey Mead than anyone else.

In the middle of the Unbearable Forest lives one of the Brightest Beings in Triflora. That’s Mumma Kate. She looks after the Troubled Bears and other Creatures with Problems.

And right there in the middle of the beautiful Bearable Forest – is Nana Dolores. She’s never been seen to wear shoes.  She wears the same clothes every day and every night. She cusses and smokes a pipe of Grumble Weed. But she does take care of the Untroubled Bears and other Creatures. Dolores was enjoying the singing and the laughing. After a Jar of Honey Mead, she enjoyed most things. She sat out front of her place at the bottom of her Tree and settled down to have a good afternoon.

Then she saw Ferris and Colin heading deeper into the Woods.

“ Now, that is going to be funny!”

said Dolores to herself, and chuckled. She picked up a very big jar of Honey Mead and walked into the Forest after the Bears and the Forest Men.

Nothing like Honey Mead to calm things down.

(It hardly seems fair that Irene who is such a lunatic, has a lovely voice but life is like that sometimes.)

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OTHER GOOD BOOKS TO READ

http://www.archive.org/stream/songofsixpencepi00cran#page/n9/mode/2up

http://www.archive.org/stream/naturalhistorypi00wood#page/n9/mode/2up

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