Hello. I’m Charlotte. Pleased to meet you.
Anknel and Burblets are my childhood fairies.
I remember the first time I met them; it was raining and thundering outside and I was watching my mother sew. I was not yet three at the time and they just appeared next to her sewing machine, saying hello, smiling and waving.
Since then I’ve joined them on many an adventure; planting our first yellow snapdragons under my bedroom window when we lived by the beach, writing poetry in the rain under the trees, running away from home with a chilli-bin full of grapefruit, climbing tall trees and taking aerial photos of our house, concocting luke-warm parsley soup for my grandmother, building a highway up in the trees for out cat Bodha, and making a nice milkshake for my brother out of plaster board scraps and weeds.
They showed me how to pat bumblebees, find magic in rain drops and talk to the trees and flowers.
Anknel and Burblets now live in our garden right on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London, England. We are me, Kevin, Astrid, Edith – and cats; Rufus and Oscar.
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Charlotte Franklin