Responding to dave, and maybe Cecily. To me, their squealing sounds like music from the heavens

Dave Cripps replies: "A case of OMG TMI ???"

I know how you feel...no-one ever believes me that Piglet is green until I actually go and fetch a copy of The House At Pooh Corner, either...more seriously, I do worry that the domestic prettified fairy, exported to England and the USA in the 1800s, is ousting the native breeds. I mean, I’m sitting there, writing with mine and putting up with Cobweb going on about eyeballs, Moonshadow carefully scraping the good bits off a puppy skin and Mustardseed chewing Fool’s ear, and randoms will come up to me and praise me for a weird and original take on fairies - the sort that’ve been around since the Bronze Age! I know a lot of it is loss of habitat - real live wild fey do better in dark forests and unknown glens, which are getting rare even over in Ireland, than storybooks and as child-friendly pets. Still, you’d expect a few more to survive, smart little things that they are. I’m thinking of starting a campaign...

Dave Cripps replies: "So let me get this right. Your Fey are woad tattooed and skyclad? And you wonder why they are rare. I’m sure in the Victorian times any skyclad individual would have been locked up in a large asylum. But then the ones I saw in the back-streets of smog cloaked cities are doing well even if they are dressed as greasy bikers. Just ’cause the pretty ones are not prancing about in the woodland glades anymore doesn’t mean that they are not there. There are plenty of ’forgotten’ places where no one goes anymore.
Is there a sticker for your campaign. Or a badge? (as long as it hasn’t got a nasty pointy pin that could breech HSE laws of course)"

Well, on faires, not Pooh, There are some around my neighbor hood, at the tree mentioned on my profile, well, really in the meadow behind it. Some of them have started a home under some toadstools, my bro didnt belive me, stuck his finger under there and (mimicking Dave) *CHOMP* It was acually funny. Anyways, the fairys look like little floating white dots, untill they rest on you. Then, they look like blue insects wearing white skirts with tranlusent wings. Their eyes are so big.

Dave Cripps replies: "I do hope the Elfwoods’ crazy system of getting stuff on the screen has not scared you off. I was looking forward to reading some of your work. Yours and everyone else I promised... er..."

By the way, what is OMG TMI i dont understand all that txt talk

Dave Cripps replies: "I would answer but your link has gone dead... Hallo?..."

Do your best not to learn, fair lady, it has ill results... (see http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070407) The first breaks the third commandment in the usual manner, the second abbreviation I’m not sure...Take My Iguana? Timed Massacre Impending?

Mantis-fey? I didn’t know you got those outside Extremadura and north Africa...

Dave Cripps replies: "Have I been reading too many Celeb Magazines? I thought everyone knew what that meant. OMG you got that. Oh My Gosh of course.
TMI No Iguanas included. Too Much Information!
No let me get back to this riveting biography: Being Jordan....."

Some of them. A few are too fuzzy to tattoo well, and some of the larger ones enjoy wearing enough stuff about their persons to qualify as clothing. Hmm...I think you underestimate the importance of belief and halfway-places to fairy habitat. I mean, compare numbers of fairies reported/accepted/offered to by fearful peasants in Ireland to numbers in England, and likewise how much of England is thoroughly developed/encolsed/basically tilled over and seeded with iron.

Heheh, I should make one...what do folk nowadays find popular? [also hopes page hasn’t been et]

Dave Cripps replies: "Wild Fae. Ah the iron thing.
Yes this spread to wherever the Irish ended up. (Ramble mode engaged): I was watching Victoria Wood’s programme on the old Empire and a chap in Newfoundland (Who should have had an American twang to his voice but sounded like alde Shamus) And he said not to go into the woods behind his house with out a slice of bread in your pocket. (Either to ward them off or to bribe them to let you go I don’t remember) and told a story of some chap who went in without the bread and was never seen again.
*Falls asleep at own boring story*"

They were here first...I think they’re worth conserving, before the entirety of the British Isles ends up devoid of anything but wee Victorian domestic fey and the odd gremlin.
Ach, I fear for native-breed American fey, too...so much knowledge died with the greater part of the continent’s natives, we’ve scarce an impression of what they are/were like (if not extinct)...no-one sounds like Newfies, that’s a fact...and Canadians don’t sounld all that like Americans, if you listen to them. Anyway, I was most amused by some American ghost-buster programme going off to Ireland to "disprove" fairy activity there, and an over-bold presenter scarce getting away in one piece...I’ll ask Emily the name of the programme, if you like, I looked it up and was most amused. You can feel human influence on a country, though, the ’iron in the head’ (and in the soil) as Pratchett puts it - I always know when I’m over the border into Wales, for instance, and the wild nature of New Zealand is such that in some places it would be equally normal for a kiwi or a patupaiarehe to step out onto a twilit path...but back to badges, for I wish to do this, or mayhap make myself a shirt - what’s a good image for a "preserve british native breeds" campaign concerning fey?

Dave Cripps replies: "You always know when you cross into Wales. It says ’Croesso Cymru.’ Mind you when you get back into England all it says is ’£500 fine for litter’ Next to a nice pile of festering rubbish.

For your badge I was thinking a nice Union Jack and in bold sans serif lettering P.B. ... erm .... no wait that might be mistaken as something else.. Oh back to the drawing board... Perhaps you can change the wordage... to something a little more amusing. Against Rural Suppression of English Fey... no wait that’s no good either.....

I’m always interested in Ghost Hunting programmes. Especially when they have Yvette in them screaming about nothing. Most amusing "

I said I updated. Have you?

Dave Cripps replies: "I would if you didn’t keep procrastinating! "

Drew one -> http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c153/saltnester/random/?actio---n=view&current=Scannedstuff001.jpgMissing [/URL]![/URL]

Dave Cripps replies: "And you didn’t manage to get Royal approval? Did you make the effigies of the other two? Nice collection of varied tat and detritus by the way

Any way I’m not that happy with our local ones. I stood in a nice Fairy Ring the other day and asked if I could win that Euro Lotto. I’m sure I heard a little voice say, ’Buy a ticket first Mr Giant....’ Very useful I’m sure!"

There should be an RSPF...next time I meet the Queen, I shall suggest it. Oh, yes, I’ve been making pretend real fairies for friends, they’re ragdolls...unemployed at present, I go mad with nothing to do.

Boah, I’m sure fairy lottery tickets would turn to spam in the morning...best not to bother the good folk.

Dave Cripps replies: "If you could crank out the ragdolls like that then you could sell them. Tah Dah! self employed. Me I’ll try for the fairy lotto tickets. Might even get some free spam for me sarnies if they don’t win."