As promised an excerpt from book two of The Hedgerow Diaries,
Enjoy
Pollyxx
Prelude
Hedgerow Diaries’
Book Too
Prelude
Book one is all about the lives of six fairies, their lives
and adventures. Loves and losses and how they defeat enemies and gain friends.
The book begins after the introduction to the main
characters with the fairies meeting the chickens. After discovering that three
of the six chickens have wonderful singing voices the next mission is to find a
way to get the chickens to the venue of the local singing competition. The
competition that the Lark wins every year. They decide to dig a tunnel and one
of the chickens is lost. The fairies try to help and this leads to several
scary moments. Resulting in meeting with goblins and eventually hobgoblins and
their own worlds are a little torrid. Two of the goblins have been evicted and
come above ground. Eventually the chicken is rescued and the competition goes
ahead but not quite as planned. During all of this the sparrow fairy called
jack and another fairy called Blossom fall in love and decide to get married.
The wedding isn’t quite what they planned.
The rest of the book finds the fairies lives intertwined
with the goblins and hobgoblins as they tread the path of life always mindful
of the fact that they only have six pockets of magic fairy dust each to use
before they must give themselves to the flowers so that a new fairy can be born
into the world.
Part One
Chapter One
New Wildlife in the Garden.
It was springtime at the old oak tree; the new fairies were
getting on famously with Lilly, Petal, Jack and Daphne. Bluebell was getting on
particularly well with Jack. Foster had been helping Daphne with all her
visitors and kept reminding her that he still wanted to get married. Tony was still
with them in the low down hollow and was very happy. The chickens were still
singing. But, nobody had mentioned this year’s competition.
Suddenly the couple from the house came all the way down the
garden with spades and a huge plastic thing and buckets of what looked like
weeds. They were talking about digging a pond with fish and frogs and wildlife.
Daphne’s ears pricked up, she was very excited at the prospect of having so
much extra wildlife around her.
The couple seemed to be digging for quite some time, the
lady said “I’ll go and make a brew.” Petal didn’t know what she meant by that
unless she was making some kind of potion, she flew over to Tony to see what he
thought. “Silly girl, she is simply making a cup of tea but they call it ‘a
brew’.”
Petal
felt a little embarrassed and all the fairies kept on watching them build this
pond. This process
