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Lucy Skylark Entry 14, 15th May.
Your package couldn’t have arrived at a better time. I was in a very low mood following Mrs Webfoot’s anger, and the next day Mrs Edgwood came around and they gossiped about me rather loudly, and Mrs Edgwood told me that Suniya had gone home in tears. I tried to phone her but she didn’t… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 8, 12th May.
Last night I couldn’t sleep and I got up and wandered about. Firenze stirred for a moment, looked at me curiously, stared at me with an almost impertinent pointedness, and then pulled a leaf of sage off the plant and disappeared. I took this to mean that he must have understood our conversation. I wondered… Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 13, 10th May.
Well, the vegetable garden did not exactly go as planned! The trouble is, I can hear the plants and… well, some weren’t happy and some were very eager to please. Maybe the problem was that I was really keen to impress Suniya. She was worried about watering seedlings for so long and though I can’t… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 7, 9th May.
Firenze has given me a shock. I knew we had a bond and I thought it was surprising when I had a future flash, but I have discovered that I vastly underestimated him. This morning I went down his enclosure and he was gone. I was frantic and I called Hatty, who denied having seen… Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 12, 7th May.
I have been helping Mrs Webfoot in the garden lately and I feel that I’ve been “hearing” the plants and trees more and more. She is happy for me to help her with anything except her herb garden, which she is very protective over. Mrs Webfoot has very odd assorted mix of gardening products and… Continue reading
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Bad advice: Ignore them (and they’ll go away) and other crappy advice for victims of bullying
I was thinking this morning how there are so many bits of generic advice we parrot without thought and I could genuinely write a series on these useless platitudes, or to be more brutal, bullshit wisdom. “Bullshit wisdom” is hard to spot because we say it so often and repeat it so much that we Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 11, 30th April.
Dear Vera, Thank you so much for the yarn and threads and the advice. I hope this parcel arrives all right – please do be careful with the encyclopaedia! I went to see Maksym and Artem again yesterday and I took along some bracelets I found at the market. I had spent some time practising… Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 10.5, 27th April
Dear Lucy, My dear, you did the right thing in reaching out to me! Of course we must help this new friend of yours! I fear you have exposed a little hypocrisy of mine, because while I firmly believe that our powers are not something we should shy away from or be frightened of, I… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 6, 26th April.
You will not have even read my previous letter as I write this, but I lay awake tossing and turning last night and worrying about this woman, this Mrs Webfoot. She seems to know about me and even know when I’m lying… so I realised I could go one better. Why do years of work… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 5, 25th April.
The strange weather continues. Yesterday it was raining on one side of Crag Cottage but not on the other. The town was covered in rain, and over the sea it was bright and sunny. I wondered if it was some sort of trick… something meant to draw me out. I put on my coat, and… Continue reading
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