tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81365139010536686002024-03-05T23:32:12.932-08:00Matlock The HareAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355421756388793709noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136513901053668600.post-27463428501189409982015-03-02T06:32:00.000-08:002015-03-02T06:32:08.740-08:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
'The Puzzle of the Tillian Wand' - OUT NOW!</h2>
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It's been a long time coming, but we're so proud to announce that finally - <b>'The Puzzle of the Tillian Wand' - Part 2 of the 'Most Majelicus trilogy</b> featuring Matlock and all the clottabussed, crumlushed and saztaculous creatures of Winchett Dale is finally out and published; in paperback, e-book and hardback editions....</div>
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At over 500 pages of adventure filled griffles, with over 30 full-page illustrations, full glossary, a copy of the 'Dale-Bugle' - Matlock's latest adventure sees him undertake the second Most Majelicus task - the finding of the elusive Tillian Wand in a journey filled with twizzly peril, ganticus chickles and a freggle of old and familiar characters all helping or hindering him on his way...</div>
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Picking up from the moment <b>'The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path'</b> finishes, Matlock has no time to rest his weary hare's feet as he is soon summoned to the mysterious upside-down tower of Jericho and Lily Krettle deep in Wand Wood. The two cheery creatures waste no time in griffling to him the nature of the task - and also the price for failure for majickal-hares who attempt it - to be 'stroffed' and made into hare 'soupy-soupy'...as all the while a ganticus flood rises from beneath Winchett Dale threatening to drown all the creatures who live there. Only one hare can the day - and the dales! You guessed it - it's Matlock. Let's only hope he's up to the task...</div>
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It's a book we sincerely hope folk will enjoy as much as <b>'The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path'</b>. A few more 'secrets' from the first book are revealed - and some others which will have to wait for the 3rd and final part of the trilogy - <b>'The Trial of the Majickal Elders' </b>before they are ever fully known...</div>
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But for now, if it's a truly immersive magical read that you want - books to take you from the mundane and sweep you effortlessly into a world packed full of chickles and saztaculous adventures - then Matlock is peffa-definitely the 'hare' for you - and just waiting to take you with him on his journeys <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=matlock+the+hare" target="_blank">right now!</a> </h4>
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It can be hard at times to realise just how quickly the sun-turns pass, turn themselves into weeks, then moon-turns. We're somehow already half way through the year, and as the sun-turns shorten, thoughts begin to turn to Autumn, and all the crumlush saztaculousness it brings...and the amount of work still left for Jacqui and I to do before we finish the book...</div>
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However, first things first, and we were most peffa-grateful for the saztaculous clackety-janglers that are Shrewsbury Morris for their help with our Kickstarter prize draw to win two black-and-white original pen and ink drawings of Matlock and Ursula, held in Shrewsbury's town square during their shindinculous 'Drums, Dance and Dynamix' day on Saturday 19th July - despite the ever present threat of a cracksploding lid and rain!</div>
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As tension mounted, two names were effortlessly picked from the box, revealing the two winners to be Susan Hughes and John Grisswell - so congratulations to them both, the pictures will be on their way - and once again grillions of thanks to <a href="http://www.shrewsburymorris.co.uk/" target="_blank">Shrewsbury Morris,</a> for whom Matlock is peffa-proud to be associated with as one of their sponsors...</div>
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Much of the last couple of weeks has been spent making rewards for our backers, together with writing and illustrating the book - alongside plans for a selection of Christmas goodies and curiosities, perfect for the most peffa-crumlushed 'Borascus'...of which there will be more in the next saztoblog...</div>
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For now, though, 'tis time for us to be pid-padding on, back to Matlock's adventures in the many majickal-dales, and see just how well he's doing in trying to solve 'The Puzzle of the Tillian Wand' - which despite what he seems to think, might just turn out to be an oidy bit more tricky and twizzly than he expects...</div>
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Well - hankies in the air and bells strapped to your legs - Matlock the hare is peffa-proud to announce that he has become a sponsor of <a href="http://www.shrewsburymorris.co.uk/" target="_blank">Shrewsbury Morris</a> - <span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">formed in 1976, providing an opportunity for both men and women to practice and perform traditional and contemporary dances in the traditional style – celebrating and keeping alive the rich heritage of our country. At present, Shrewsbury Morris is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">comprised of three teams: The Shrewsbury Lasses, The Bull & Pump Morris Men and Shrewsbury Clog.</span><br />
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As Promised an oidy-peek into me new and saztaculous book...</h2>
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It's been yet another busy week in the potionary, as Jacqui and I forsake the sunlushly to continue on with writing and illustrating 'The Puzzle of the Tillian Wand'...</div>
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We thought you might like an 'oidy glimpse' into the prologue and first few pages of Chapter 1. Hope you enjoy it, and it may even give you a flavour of what to expect if you ever find yourself in the crumlush position of sipping guzzworts in the Winchett Dale Inn on the night of their pub-quiz. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What <i>is</i>
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All hares, it is widely
acknowledged, are ‘majickal’ to some degree or another, although this is
perhaps less accepted by those of us that live out here in The Great
Beyond. And if this makes little or no
sense to you, then it is as well to remember that <i>our</i> lives don’t make a lot of sense to the creatures of Winchett Dale,
either – excepting perhaps, a shared appreciation for the majickal qualities of
all hares.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Griffled quite simply, dear reader, dale-creatures would find our lives just
as different and confusing as anything we might ever find in Winchett Dale, and
were you to ever stumble upon the entrance to Trefflepugga Path, hidden high in
the crumlush Derbyshire Peaks, then take its winding, constantly changing route
down into the dale itself, this would become all too immediately apparent, from
the very first pid-pads you took down towards Wand Wood, then into the village
itself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But more of Winchett Dale, and all the creatures who live there, later…<o:p></o:p></div>
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For now, these griffles concern themselves with the most majickal
business of the ascension of hares, a sacred practice that has existed since
Oramus first created Trefflepugga Path; together with the moon, the stars, and each
and every saztaculous thing in the twinkling-lid above. Indeed, some think the ascension of hares may
well have been the most peffa-important of <i>His</i>
plans for us all in the very first place.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are, as far as we know, four kinds of majickal-hare.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first live alongside us all, out here in The Great Beyond, in family
groups and droves, rarely glimpsed during the day, lying flat in forms, ears to
their backs, hoping not to be disturbed, usually in open fields and lush
grasslands. Brown in colour, they are
born with their eyes open, alert and seemingly ready for whatever life may have
in store for them. To see one is a
peffa-rare pleasure, but if you do, and dare to look into its bright majickal
eyes, you might well get an oidy inkling as to why it is that just so many myths,
spuddles and legends have been written and griffled about these saztaculous
creatures, in cultures and countries the world over.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second kind of hare, good reader of these griffles, are true
‘majickal-hares’; hares that have been chosen to make the long and perilous journey
along Trefflepugga Path and down into any one of the waiting dales, there to
serve their apprenticeship under a Most Majelicus hare-master; to learn and be
taught the ways of ancient-dalelore, to walk on their hind legs, dress in their
saztaculous green robes, long purple shoes and caps, and eventually to begin reading
the many majickal-driftolubb books that will provide them with essential potionary
and wand-wielding skills they’ll need during their time as a true
‘majickal-hare’. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Once trained by their masters, and their apprenticeship is complete, majickal-hares
are left in their various dale homelands
to tend the immediate needs of the creatures, plants and trees who live there,
from sorting out the most gobflopped squabbles, to conjuring saztaculous
vrooshers, as and when the need arises.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The third kind of hare are Most Majelicus hares, the briftest of all
majickjal-hares; those few that have successfully completed three tasks to
prove themselves worthy of this most shindinculous majickal accolade, and the wearing
of the saztaculous red robes that accompanies it. After becoming Most Majelicus, they spend their
sun-turns searching for hares back out in The Great Beyond, then taking a chosen
few as apprentices back to the dales in order to train them in the ways of majickal-hares, in so doing passing on their
own knowledge, experience and wisdom gained from their own times as
majickal-hares themselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thus the circle on this good Earth is complete; from hare, to
majickal-hare, to Most Majelicus hare, leaving just the final ascension to that
of a Majickal Elder – the fourth kind of hare - achieved when the hare is
finally taken into Oramus’ eternal-care to join the ranks of other blue-robed
Majickal Elders, whose combined ethereal governance over all Oramus’ many
lands, seas and dales becomes their sole duty from that sun-turn forth…<o:p></o:p></div>
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…except for when they’re eating niff-soup, or squabbling amongst
themselves, or failing to reach any kind of a decision in the many separate
committees and councils that were ironically designed by Oramus to make the whole
business of ethereal governance a good deal more simpler in the first place. Indeed, some peffa, peffa-wise Majickal Elder
hares have sometimes wondered if Oramus didn’t have a fifth and final ascension
in <i>His </i>Most Majelicus Eternally
Shindinculous Mind when <i>He </i>planned
the four-stage ascension, but seeing as <i>He</i>
has never really been glimpsed (saving shadowy appearances on the surface of
the occasional full-moon) no one has ever really been able to griffle to <i>Him</i> as to what <i>His</i> true intentions and purposes really were. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the meantime, the Majickal Elders content themselves as best they can
with the knowledge that their blue-robes of shindinculous office signify they
have risen to the peffa-highest of all places for any hare that once hid and
sheltered in open fields and crumlush green pastures back out in The Great
Beyond so peffa-many moon-turns ago, and leaving the vexing possibility of a
fifth ascension for Oramus’ <i>Himself </i>to
finally reveal, if and when <i>He</i> sees
fit to do so. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And until that distant sun-turn arrives, all hares, of whatever office,
rank and stature, must simply wait…<o:p></o:p></div>
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…which, if you were Matlock, the
majickal-hare of Winchett Dale, would suit you from the top of your long brown
ears, right down to the tip of your long purple shoes, and most other places on
your softulous. For Matlock, it has to
be griffled, is one of the few majickal-hares that really rather likes
waiting. Not that he’d ever see it as ‘waiting’,
as such – more he sees lots of other things he’d much rather be doing instead,
mostly in and around his cottage garden, his potionary, Wand Wood and the
village of Winchett Dale itself. Indeed,
this ability of simply being able to get on with what he thought was necessary
at the time, rather than worrying about or pondering any sort of ‘greater scheme’
was one of the main reasons Chatsworth, his Most Majelicus master, had first
chosen Matlock to be his apprentice when he’d first set eyes on him as a leaping
leveret way out in The Great Beyond. For
no matter what was going on, Matlock always simply busied himself with his own
chores; searching for food in the hedgerows, building his form, seemingly
oblivious to any lurking predators or dangers, completely absorbed by whatever
he’d set his mind on. After just a
single sun-turn observing Matlock in this way, Chatsworth knew the young
leveret to be the peffa-perfect choice for his next apprentice, and had taken
him back along Trefflepugga Path, the path itself then deciding Winchett Dale
to be Matlock’s brand new home and training ground.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And some might wonder just why it was that Trefflepugga Path chose
Winchett Dale of all the majickal-dales for the young leveret. Even Chatsworth, as a Most Majelicus hare had
no idea of the path’s true intentions, save for the fact that it always seemed
to take creatures where it best thought they needed to go, and that this was in
some strange and majickal way connected to Oramus’ will, and therefore wasn’t really
ever open to much dispute or negotiation.
Trefflepugga Path had decided on Winchett Dale, so it was there that
Matlock began his apprenticeship in what was generally acknowledged to be the
most peffa-glopped-up and clottabussed of all the majickal-dales.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Peffa-glopped-up?
Clottabussed? Confusing griffles
indeed, but not perhaps if you were to spend a snutch of sun-turns in Winchett
Dale yourself, in and amongst the creatures themselves, watching them
pid-padding about their daily lives. You
might even find yourself using some of their griffles yourself, as Dalespeak can
be peffa, peffa-catching…<o:p></o:p></div>
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And what would be your first impressions of this most crumlush
place? Certainly, its unspoilt beauty
would shine through; from the limestone cliffs of Twinkling Lid Heights, to the
dense forest of Wand Woods; the crisp, clear waters of Thinking Lake, the
sweeping grasslands of Chiming Meadows, and finally, the wooden houses of the
village, cosily clustered around a saztaculous tree at its very centre. You
might even notice an inn, on far the side of the village-square, with creatures
drinking guzzworts and griffling loudly inside, as landlord Slivert Jutt tried
his jovial best to keep order and stop any unnecessary singing - although, as
no one really knows what ‘unnecessary’ means in Winchett Dale, you’d probably realise
that his efforts in this regard were also – perhaps somewhat ironically – rather unnecessary in
themselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And of the creatures? Well, some would look like creatures you
might vaguely recognise from your time in The Great Beyond. But here any similarity would end, as you
soon discovered that nearly every creature griffled, albeit what they actually
had to say might sound rather glopped-up at times. But then it would be well worth remembering
that life as seen through eyes of any creature in Winchett Dale – or any of the
other majickal-dales – is peffa-different to ours own out in The Great Beyond…<o:p></o:p></div>
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…which is perhaps the reason why
Oramus made it that way in the first place…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Useful ‘Griffles’ for your Journey…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<strong>Briftest</strong> - (adj) What you know as ‘the best’. <o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Chickle</b> – (v) To laugh.<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Clottabus</strong> - (n, colloquial) A bit of a fool. <i>Clottabussed </i>– foolish, but mostly
harmless.<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Creaker</b> – (n) Door.<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Crumlush</b> – (adj) The feeling you
get inside when all’s <i>saztaculoulsy</i>
well. Cosy, warm, lovely.<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Driftolubb </b>– (n) A book. Part of a set of <i>driftolubbs </i>used by majickal-hares to find spells, potions and <i>vrooshers. <o:p></o:p></i><br />
<b>Excrimbly</b> – (adj) Excited.<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Fuzzcheck</strong> - (sl) - When everything’s <i>saztaculoulsy</i> fine.<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Gobflop</b> –(n) – to fail at
something.<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Glopped-up</b> – (n phrase) When something
has gone wrong.<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Glubbstool </strong>- (n) When something has gone <i>peffa-</i>wrong! <o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Griffle(s)</strong> - (n) Word(s)<strong> <o:p></o:p></strong><br />
<strong>Juzzpapped – (n) </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tired, exhausted.<o:p></o:p></span></strong><br />
<strong>Lid – (n) Sky. </strong><strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Twinkling-lid</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (n) being a night sky full of stars.</span></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
<strong>Majelicus<span style="color: #003366;"> </span></strong>- (adj) <em>Peffa</em>-majickal,
the most majickal majick, that can't be <em>vrooshe</em>d from books, tinctures
or potions. The very heartbeat of our
majickal world. <o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Nifferduggle(s)</strong> - (n) Sleeping. To go to <i>nifferduggles</i> is sometimes the most <i>crumlush</i> part of our <i>sun-turn</i>… <o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Oidy</b> – (adj) Tiny, <i>peffa</i>-small.<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Peffa</strong> - (adj) Very. <o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Pid-pad</strong> - (v) To walk. Humans tend to `<em>bud-thud'</em>;
wehereas we, more delicate creatures of the dale simply <em>pid-pad</em>.
Except Proftulous, who <i>lump-thumps,</i>
and oidy creatures who sometimes <i>scrittle</i>.<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Russisculoffed</strong> - (n) Irritated. From the gutteral
noises made by <em>Russicers</em> if you go too near to them while they are
hoarding <em>shlomps</em>. Be warned, they much prefer their <em>schlomps</em>
to you! <o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Saztaculous </b>- (adj) Incredible,
fantastic.<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Shindinculous </b>– (adj) Something
that it so <i>peffa-saztaculous</i> that it
shines out.<i><o:p></o:p></i><br />
<strong>Sisteraculous</strong> - (n) The absolute being of you.
The complimentary part of your <em>softulous</em> (body) that if you really
take the time to listen to, has some truly <em>shindinculous </em>answers to
questions you never thought to even ask. Something so many have
forgotten how to trust, but we at Winchett Dale rely on most <i>glopped-up sun-turns</i>! <o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Snutch</strong> - (n) A few. <o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Stroff</b> – (v) To be taken to pass
into Oramus’ eternal care.<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Sun-turn</strong> - (n) A day. The period of <em>time </em>it
takes for the sun to rise and fall, before leaving just the <i>saztaculous twinkling-lid</i>. Twenty-eight
of them make a <i>moon-turn (</i>or ‘month’,
as you would <i>griffle</i>.)<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Twizzly</strong> - (n) To feel scared; something rather scary. <o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Vilish</strong> - (adv) Quickly. From the noise made by
a woodland creature rushing through the undergrowth, searching for berries, or
trying to escape a hungry predator!<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Vroosher</strong> - (n). A wand-assisted majick spell.
From the <em>saztaculous vrooshing</em> noise they make!<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Yechus</b> – (n) horrible, awful,
hideous; something that might be <i>peffa-glopped-up.<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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Armed with these few griffles, the wary traveller
should have little difficulty in easily pid-padding around Winchett Dale. However, in the unlikely event of you ever
getting lost, a more comprehensive glossary can be found waiting for you at the
end of your journey through the dales…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some even’ups, Matlock had often
suspected, were simply made for friends, brottle-leaf brew and griffling in his
cottage garden on the edge of Wand Wood.
As such, this was just one of those crumlush, and almost peffa-perefct
even’ups, one of the last sun-turns of summer, the lid twinkling with stars, and
a slight breeze settling over Matlock and his two briftest friends; Proftulous
the dworp, and Ursula Brifthaven Stoltz, a visiting white hare-witch from
across The Icy Seas. An even’up fluthropp
flew in slow circles high above their heads, greeping exquisitely to the moon,
which shone down and bathed them all in its crumlush glory.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So,” Proftulous griffled, as he finished the last of his brew, slamming
down the wooden mug on the table and wiping his yechus lips with a ganticus paw, “there still be a snutch of things that I
just don’t be understanding at all.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ursula screwed her white hare’s face into a frown. “Just a snutch of things? I would be thinking
that there would be grillions of them, dworp.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous thought about this for a moment, then began silently counting
on his paws, frowning heavily as he tried to recall all the things he found
confusing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I have a feeling in my Sisteraculous,’ Matlock whispered into Ursula’s
long white ear, “that this could take a peffa-long time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“And I have a feeling,’ she vilishly snapped, “that you are far too
close to my ears. Just because you have completed the first task to becoming
Most Majelicus doesn’t mean you can sit this close.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Sorry,” Matlock apologised, swiftly leaning away, as Proftulous moved
onto counting his yechus toes, mumbling to himself all the while.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ursula’s stern face didn’t change. “And you would do as well to also remember
that you only solved the riddle of Trefflepugga Path because you had a
peffa-lot of tzorkly help from many of us – including that clottabussed dworp
of yours.” She looked at
Proftulous. “What will you do, when you
run out of fingers and toes to count?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous looked up. “Count?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Because that’s what you’re doing, isn’t it?” Ursula snapped. “Trying to
count all the things you don’t understand, like the clottabussed splurk you are?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous blinked back very
slowly, trying to understand the griffles, confusion written ganticus on his
yechus face. “Well, methinks the biggest
problem be that I don’t be remembering how to be counting too well. So I’s having peffa-difficulty with all this
counting and trying to remember things at the same time, I really am.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ursula sighed. “And I wonder why
am I not even being an oidy bit surprised by that.” She turned back to Matlock. “Are you really sure your dworp is Most
Majelicus?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matlock nodded, looking over at his oldest friend. “Fairly. Although at times even I’m not that sure, to
be honest. I mean he did eat nearly a
full set of majickal-driftolubbs, so somewhere inside that glopped-up head,
there’s supposed to be all sorts of Most Majelicus majick and wisdom just
waiting to burst out and be used.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ursula took another long look at Proftulous. “It helps to be remembering that he’s spent
most of his life living here in Winchett Dale, and also has you as his briftest
friend. I’m supposing that explains
peffa-much about his cottabussedness.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matlock tried not to be too offended.
He already had a lot to thank Ursula for, and the peffa-last thing he
wanted on such a crumlush even’up was to have a russisculoffed white hare-witch
on his paws. For even though she had
helped indeed him in completing the first task to becoming Most Majelicus, she
had also proved herself a more than formidable friend. He well knew that just one swish from her
wand could easily send out a bright blue vroosh to turn him into any number of
glopped-up and yechus creatures in the oidiest blinksnap. “I think it’ll take time before his Most
Majelicus nature really surfaces,” Matlock tried diplomatically, anxious not to
upset either of his two friends. “I
mean, it’s peffa-early sun-turns, yet.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, this is time that I don’t have,” Ursula griffled, finishing the
last of her brottle-leaf brew and gently setting her mug on the table. “It is already late for me, and I have a long
journey back to my home across The Icy Seas.”
She stood and made ready to leave, pid-padding to where her waiting
broom lay against the side of the cottage, its vroffa-branches already
beginning to frizz and glow bright red as she approached. “So I will be leaving you two to your
counting, griffling and generally being splurked.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But I know what it is, now!” Proftulous suddenly griffled, a ganticus smile
spreading over his yechus face. “I know
one of the things that I don’t be understanding!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Just one?” Ursula called back, shrugging. “Progress, I suppose. Even for you, dworp.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, what is it?” Matlock asked, realising that the last thing he
wanted was to see Ursula fly off and leave, ending what had been such a
peffa-pleasant even’up. For no matter
how stern the white hare-witch was, he enjoyed her company, and knew full well
that the blinksnap she was gone, Proftulous would soon turn the griffversation
round to his all time peffa-favourite subject – tweazle-pies, the one thing he
could griffle about almost as endlessly as he could eat the yechus pies
themselves. And in all the moon-turns
they had been briftest friends, from the peffa-first moment they’d met,
Matlock, even as a majickal-hare, couldn’t even begin to estimate the amount of
tweazle-pie griffversations he’d had to endure.
On the one paw, it was an oidy price to pay for having a dworp as a
peffa-loyal friend (and over the years he had learned how to mostly close his
long hare’s ears to the Proftulous’ endless pie-related griffles), but on the other,
Matlock did still sometimes wonder if there wasn’t something else slightly more
excrimbly to griffle about than the needs of Proftulous’ continually rumbling
crimple.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What be what?” Proftulous griffled, trying to remember.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What’s the thing that you’ve finally remembered?” Matlock griffled, trying not to grind his
hare’s teeth too much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous stared blankly back.
“I’s trying to be remembering something?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matlock took a deep hare’s breath, something he often did when griffling
with Proftulous, and something that Chatsworth, his master had taught him to do
when he’d first trained him as an apprentice many, many moon-turns previously. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You griffled that you were trying to remember something,” Matlock
griffled, sighing and waving a paw at Ursula as she mounted her broom across
the way. “But I don’t suppose it really
matters, now.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ursula waved back, gripping powerfully onto her broom, as suddenly a
deafening roaring filled the small cottage garden and she took to the lid,
streaking up towards the stars, leaving Matlock wondering just when he would
see her again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He reached out and gently cupped
her empty mug, still warm from the brottle-leaf brew. “Well, old friend,” he griffled to
Proftulous, “I guess that leaves just the two of us.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous nodded enthusiastically, lump-thumping after Matlock, as he
collected the brew-mugs and headed inside the cottage. “I’s be thinking that p’raps we could be making
ourselves a slurpilicious tweazle-pie.
T’would be the most peffa-saztaculous end to the even’up, wouldn’t it
be, Matlock? Wouldn’t it?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It would,” Matlock slowly agreed, his mind still on a distant white
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“And what they be?” Proftulous griffled, trying to help Matlock wash the
brew mugs in the small kitchen, inevitably making his usual peffa-glopped mess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, firstly,” Matlock explained, “I don’t have any tweazles in the
cottage…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“That be one problem Proftulous can solve right now!” Proftulous eagerly
griffled. “I’s be lump-thumping out into
Wand Wood and stroffing a snutch of ‘em so we can pie and pastry ‘em all
up! Honestly, Matlock, we’ll be sat down
and crunching on slurpilicious tweazle-pie before you can griffle…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Before I can griffle that I <i>never
</i>eat tweazle-pies,” Matlock quietly reminded him. “Ever.
Do I?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous slapped the side of his yechus head, his ganticus ears
drooping a little. “You be right,
Matlock. I be clean forgetting you’s only
like eating niff soup, or niffs and cloff-beetle salad. I’s be such a clottabus. Must be all this Most Majelicus
business. I’ve not been feeling very
fuzzcheck since I ate all those griffles from your majickal-driftolubbs. I think they be playing all sorts of
glubbstooled tricks with me memory, I really do.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matlock frowned, drying his paws on a long-haired frittle sitting on the
sink-top, before it shook itself dry and scrittled happily back into the
garden. “I wonder where Ayaani is?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous brightened at this.
“Now that much I <i>can</i> be
remembering,” he griffled. “She be gone
somewhere, and she hasn’t got back yet.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Indeed, but the question is where?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What question?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matlock sighed, making his way into his potionary, its tables and
shelves heaving with all kinds of jars, majickal-equipment and exotic
tinctures. “The question of where she
is, of course. Honestly, how can you
forget the question?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“That’s it!” Proftulous shouted, nodding his yechus head so vilishly
that a stottle-beetle, that for reasons it alone only knew had decided to spend
the best part of the even’up nifferduggling deep inside Proftulous’ left ear, suddenly
shot across the potionary, knocking into several jars before finally landing on
the window sill and chickling loudly.
“That’s the thing I’ve tried to be remembering all this time,
Matlock. ‘Tis all about answering
questions! The question even’up! ‘Tis
tonight, at the inn! The ganticus
question even’up! Can we be going,
Matlock? Can we be going for all sorts
of guzzworts and questions? After all,
you’ve got a peffa-lot of celebrating to be doing, now that you’s be completing
the first of the three Most Majelicus tasks.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’m really not sure that it’s such a good…” Matlock tried.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But ‘tis a competition, Matlock,” Proftulous griffled, his yechus eyes
alive with fuzzcheck excrimblyness.
“Those that gets the most questions all correctly answered wins the most
saztaculous things.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What sort of things?” Matlock sighed, already sensing in his hare’s
heart that he didn’t have it in him to disappoint the excrimbly dworp, and
realising that to finish the even’up at the Winchett Dale Inn would at least
put and end to all tweazle-pie griffversations, which surely had to be a good
thing – or at least peffa-preferable to his current situation. “What are the prizes?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, it not be mattering to us, does it?” Proftulous smiled back. “We’s too clottabussed to be winning anything,
anyway.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“’Tis a fair point,” Matlock agreed.
“Even if it is made by a dworp.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“A <i>Most Majelicus</i> Dworp,”
Proftulous corrected him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes, well, we have to keep peffa, peffa-quiet about all that,” Matlock
griffled. “Dworps aren’t supposed to be
Most Majelicus. If too many folk
discover you are, then there could be ganticus trouble.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But no one from Winchett Dale’s going to griffle anything about it,”
Proftulous griffled. “Besides, they all still
be thinking that I’m the most clottabussed dworp in all the dales. There’s not one creature, tree, plant or
leaning-shrivver that’d ever be believing that I be Most Majelicus, Matlock,
you know that. After all, I not really be looking the part, do I?” He puffed out his large chest proudly. “I still be looking just as glopped-up,
yechus and clottabussed as I always did, don’t I?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Indeed, you do,” Matlock smiled.
“Peffa, peffa-yechus and clottabussed.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“And glopped-up?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh, completely,” Matlock agreed.
“Possibly the most glopped-up dworp in the eternal history of all the
dales, my good friend.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Content with Matlock’s verdict, Proftulous headed for the front creaker
of the cottage. “We’s got to be
hurrying,” he griffled. “We don’t wants
to get there before all the tweazle-sandwiches and guzzworts have gone.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’m not so sure there’ll be too many folk queuing up for
tweazle-sandwiches,” Matlock griffled.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous turned, raised a paw, pointing a long and yechus claw. “Well that’s where you could be peffa-wrong,
Matlock. And not for the first time at
that, I can griffle.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What do you mean?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous lowered his voice to a confidential whispgriffle. “Tonight’s question even’up is going to a
peffa-special one. There be teams coming
from all over the many dales. Visiting
teams of peffa-clever creatures, not just us Winchett Dale folk. There’ll be creatures we’ve never seen
before, all waiting at the inn, and chances are some of ‘em will be all too
willing to get their glopped-up paws and claws on my tweazle-sandwiches, you
just wait and see.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock took a moment to try and take the news in. “There’s going to be visiting teams? I mean,
are you sure about this?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous nodded. “It’s going to
be a peffa-fuzzcheck end to our even’up, Matlock. Teams of three can be taking part, which
means you and me can be a team, just like we are in real life.” He smothered
Matlock in an excrimbly hug, which, as he stood two hares tall, meant Matlock
rather wished he hadn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock managed to extricate himself, shaking his head and standing back
a pid-pad or two, trying not to sneeze or heave. Being hugged by Proftulous was
even worse than being cuddled by a swamp-glopped disidula, of which there are
far too many in Winchett Dale. “Teams of three?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“S’right. So, me and you’s going
to be the briftest team, ever.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock took a breath. “But Proftulous, there’s only two of us.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous frowned. “And that be
different to ‘three’, is it?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock nodded. “It’s one short,
really.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“One short what? One short
tweazle? Because I can find one of those
if you need one! Plenty of short
tweazles around this time of year.”
Proftulous rubbed his ganticus crimple.
“Makes for the briftest, most slurpilicious crunch, they do, them short ones.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Before Matlock could even think of a response, he was interrupted by a sudden
and most welcome tugging at his robes, looking down to see Ayaani, his dripple,
by his feet, waiting to be lifted up and placed in his hood. “Ayaani,” he gratefully griffled, holding her
up to his face, “Am I glad to see you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
She smiled. “The dworp been
griffling about tweazles again?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Pretty much,” Matlock nodded.
“Where have you been?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“To get this,” she griffled, producing an oidy twig, no bigger than one
of Matlock’s toes, and thinner than a murpworm.
“It’s for the dworp.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“For Proftulous?” Matlock
griffled, frowning slightly before whispgriffling in her ear. “What is it?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“A twig,” Ayaani replied, her dark eyes unblinkingly staring back. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“A twig?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Ayaani nodded in the way that dripples often do when they’re
peffa-serious – peffa-slowly. She held
out an oidy paw to Proftulous, offering him the twig. “For you, dworp.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous, who it has be griffled, had never exactly been the briftest
of friends with Matlock’s dripple, narrowed his eyes suspiciously.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Take it,” Ayaani instructed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous carefully reached out a ganticus paw. “It not be going to be biting me, is it?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Just take it!” Ayaani
snapped. “It be your very own wand. Ayaani thought every Most Majelicus dworp
should be having one.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous gasped in pleasant surprise.
“Me own wand? Me actual and very own all Proftulously Most Majelicussy
own wand?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Ayaani yawned, an oidy squeeking noise coming from her open mouth as she
did so. “Something like that, dworp, yes.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“What’s I can be doing all saztaculous vrooshers with?” He turned the oidy twig in his paw,
marvelling at it.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Ayaani vilishly shook her furry dripple’s head, her face as suddenly
serious as it had ever been. “<i>No</i>,” she firmly griffled. “Never for vrooshing, dworp, ever. You can’t be seen to be doing vrooshers, or being
the oidiest bit Most Majelicus, you know that.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous sighed, his voice almost pleading. “Not even the oidiest,
oidiest vroosh, when I can be vrooshing
meself a peffa-ganticus tweazle-pie?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“One vroosh, and I take the wand back,” Ayaani warned him. “I go a long
way into Wand Wood to find it for you, so you must use it wisely, and only if
you really, really peffa-really <i>have</i>
to.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock gently popped her into his long velvet hood. “Any good at answering questions,
Ayaani?” he griffled, trying to change
the subject. “There’s a question even’up
at the inn tonight, and it’s open for teams of three.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Ayaani blinked. “What? You, me, and who else?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Me, of course” Proftulous griffled, putting the oidy twig into the
leather tweazle-pouch he kept tied around his ganticus waist. “I can be answering all kinds of questions.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Ayaani narrowed her eyes. “Like
what?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous thought for a snutch of moments, eyes narrowed in ganticus concentration
as a heavy silence filled the cottage.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“It’s all going to go peffa-glopped,” Ayaani griffled. “I just know it.” She sighed heavily. “ Let’s just go and get
the gopflopping humiliation over with as vilishly as possible.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
So it was that moments later, all three friends had left Matlock’s
crumlush cottage on the end of Wand Wood, Ayaani safe in Matlock’s hood,
Proftulous lump-thumping alongside, excrimbily griffling about all the tweazle-sandwiches
he would soon be eating as they made their way along well pid-padded pathways through
the dense woods towards the village of Winchett Dale. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
All was quiet, apart from Proftulous’ griffling, allowing Matlock to
simply enjoy the place he most probably loved being in the most, out and about
in Wand Woods, under a twinkling-lid, savouring the feeling of being at one
with the trees and creatures, the land and all the hidden majick, feeling both
connected, yet also strangely distant from this most shindinculous place. Ayaani, as dripples often do, had already
started gently snoring in his hood, her short arms wrapped around his neck,
nifferduggling soundly to the rhythm of his soft pid-padding. All, it seemed to Matlock, was peffa-perfect,
and barring the fact that Ursula had suddenly had to leave, he felt
saztaculously content with the world, knowing that it had almost been a year to
the sun-turn since he’d trod this very pathway as he’d begun his journey to
complete the first task to becoming Most Majelicus - the solving of the ancient riddle of
Trefflepugga Path. Which, even he was
forced to griffle, wasn’t nearly as easy as he’d thought it would be. Indeed, there were twizzly times along the
way that he almost preferred to forget – and yet, in solving the task the way
he had done, he’d met Ursula Brifthaven Stoltz, Proftulous had become Most
Majelicus, his dripple had learned to griffle, and he’d even come by the way of
a Most Majelicus hawthorn wand. And if all that seemed peffa-lucky, then perhaps that
was because Matlock had always appreciated the simple things in his life,
making him <i>feel</i> peffa-lucky, maybe
the most peffa-lucky majickal-hare in the histories of all the majickal dales.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
He was just in the middle of deciding what herbs and spices he would add
to his niff-soup the following morn’up, when his thoughts were rudely
interrupted by a familiar voice, urgently calling out his name in somewhat of a
twizzly panic through the quiet of the crumlush, moonlit woodland.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Serraptomus?” Matlock griffled, as a short, rather rotund and wheezing
krate dressed in a tattered tweed suit pulled up breathlessly in front of
them. “What in Balfastulous’ name is the
matter?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomus held up a paw, doubled over and fighting for breath. As a krate, whose duties are normally
officious, Serraptomus was hardly used to running at all, and those vilish
pid-pads he’d taken seemed to have knocked the very breath out of his officious
body.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Is he stroffing?” Proftulous
asked, pointing at the coughing krate.
“I hope he not be, because even though he can be peffa-officious and
bossy, he can still sometimes be making crumlush things from wood.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Which was true, Serraptomus, Winchett Dale’s most officious krate, had
also proved himself to be a competent whittler and carver over the previous
year, though for just how much longer, Matlock wondered as he helped straighten
Serraptomus and rubbed his back to stop him coughing, he had no idea. Certainly, it didn’t seem that exercise was doing
him any good at all. “I don’t think all
this rushing around suits you,” Matlock griffled, straightening his tweed
jacket. “Perhaps better to stick to your
whittling and carving from now on.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomus nodded, taking a huge breath. “Normally, I would,” he finally griffled,
trying his briftest to adopt the officious tone favourited by all krates of the
dales. “But this, Matlock, is something
of a peffa-emergency.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Emergency?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomus nodded, finally being able to take regular breaths. “The snoffibs have arrived!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock simply stared back, unable to spot even the oidiest beginnings
of any ‘emergency’ in any of Serraptomus’ griffles. “Snoffibs?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomus nodded vilishly, a
short, stubby paw pointing urgently back up the path. “And they’re at the inn already, Matlock!
Three of them, the peffa-cleverest snoffibs I’ve ever seen, all peffa-eager and
ready for the question even’up to begin.
Their heads be all full of grillions of answers, Matlock, grillions and
grillions of them!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“But I’ve never even heard of snoffibs,” Matlock griffled, rather
confused.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Me, neither,” Proftulous griffled.
“Never be hearing anything about no snoffibs, ever, and I’ve
lump-thumped around a fair-few dales in my time, believe me I has.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomus’ officious jaw dropped.
“You’ve <i>never </i>heard of
snoffibs?” He vilishly scratched at an
itch on the back of his krate’s head.
“But <i>everybody’s</i> heard of
snoffibs.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Clearly not,” Matlock griffled.
“If we don’t know what they are.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Disturbed from her hooded slumbers, Ayaani stretched and yawned. “Snoffibs,” she griffled, “are griffled to be
the peffa-cleverest creatures in all the dales.
They spend all their time in Snoffib Dale, learning answers to grillions
and grillions of questions. And if
they’re going to be at the inn tonight, I suggest we all pid-pad back to the
cottage for a brew, because there really won’t be the oidiest point in trying
to beat them. Yet again, it’ll all go
peffa, peffa-glubstool and everyone will be chickling at us.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock narrowed his eyes. “How
do you know all that?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Ayaani shrugged. “I know lots of
things. You’ve just never think to ask
me, that’s all.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Because you’ve only just learned how to griffle,” Matlock sighed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Which was also true. For traditionally
– and according to majickal-dalelore - dripples are silent creatures, born
mute, whose main duty is to be a noiseless familiar for majickal-hares, tending
to their needs for niff-soup and endless supplies of trupplejuice and
brottle-leaf brews, whilst also tidying their cottages and potionaries,
allowing their majickal-hare masters to go about their business of being
saztaculous and majickal without ever really worrying too much about chores,
food or any other such matters. And
while some may think that this represents something of a thankless life for
dripples, it’s worth remembering that for whatever bizarre and peffa-strange
reasons they may be, dripples do, in fact, choose this life for themselves,
born to it, it seems, from the very fist blinksnap they open their eyes as
drip-kittens, as if somehow already knowing that one distant sun-turn, they
will be able to choose their majickal-hare master to work for, and begin their
peffa-important dripple-duties.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Furthermore, another crucial connection between majickal-hares and
dripples concerns their life together.
Each are born on the very same sun-turn, and will finally pass into
Oramus’ eternal care together on the very same sun-turn, also – bonded in life
and subsequently in all things in the majickal hereafter, for all
eternities. As such, Ayaani, born on the
same sun-turn as Matlock, chose to spend the rest of her years with Matlock,
faithfully serving as his dripple-familiar, and had done so willingly and as dalelore
strictly dictates; without ever griffling a single griffle. But no longer. In undertaking to solve the riddle of
Treffelpugga Path, and for reasons Matlock himself couldn’t even begin to
fathom, Ayaani had begun to griffle – only the second ever dripple from all the
dales to ever have been known to make even the oidiest noise whatosever.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Well?” she griffled, yawning and hugging his neck. “How much longer are we going to stand around
here for? Let’s pid-pad back to the
cottage. There’s no point in going to
any sort of question even’up if snoffibs are going to be there.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomus waved his short stubby paw.
“Absolutely not! I forbid
it! Winchett Dale needs your services
more than ever before, Matlock. You must
go to the inn and beat the snoffibs. Or
else our beloved dale will be the chickling-stock of all the dales.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“But it already is,” Proftulous proudly griffled. “Every dale-creature knows Winchett Dale be
the most peffa-glopped and clottabussed of all the dales.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“But don’t you see?” Serraptomous insisted. “If we can win the competition, then our good
and crumlush dale will no longer be something to chickle at. And with you three as a team, we simply <i>have </i>to win. After all, who else has a majickal-hare, a
griffling dripple and a clottabussed dworp on their team?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous shook his yechus head.
“Aha! But I not just simply be clottabussed, Serraptomus,” he
griffled. “I also be Most Maj…”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlcock vilishly silenced him with a bliff in the ribs and a long hard
stare.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“You’re also what?” Serraptomous pressed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“He’s also most pleased at the
thought of eating all the tweazle-sandwiches,” Matlock vilishly griffled,
shooting Proftulous another look. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomous considered this in his most officious mind for a snutch of
moments, before seeming satisfied. “Of
tweazle-sandwiches, there will be a ganticus supply, indeed, good dworp. Enough, even, I suspect, even for you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Proftulous broke into a yechus smile at the news. “Then I be griffling
that as far as my name be Proftulous, and I be named after the oldest star high
in the twinkling-lid, that I be willing to be taking on that challenge,
Serraptomous. I don’t be knowing if there
are enough tweazle-sandwiches in <i>all </i>the
dales for me not to be eating ‘em all up.
I be peffa-hungry, I really do.”
He turned to Matlock. “What you
be thinking of it all, Matlock? How ‘bout we all be pid-padding and lump-thumping
to the inn, and you and Ayaani do all the clever answering of the questions,
while I be filling my crimple with tweazles?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Matlock took a deep hare’s breath, before – much to Ayaani’s
disappointment and Proftulous’ excrimbly joy – finally agreeing; all four
creatures then vilishly making their way out through Wand Wood, over the wooden
walkway of Grifflop Marshes, across the River Winchett and finally down into
the crowded village of Winchett Dale itself.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Normally, at this time of the even’up, most creatures would be getting
ready for nifferduggles, but on the even’up in question (ironically, perhaps,
the ‘question even’up’) the whole village was still awake and peffa-excrimbly, already
eagerly crowded around the entrance to the inn, leaning through the open
windows, peffa-keen to see and hear just what was going on inside. Then, when a lone tilted-graggle spotted
Matlock and the others making their way into the square, a ganticus round of
pawplause broke out, with everyone beginning to chant Matlock’s name, reaching
out to eagerly shake his paw and playfully bliffing him on the back as he made
his way inside, there to be shown to a specially reserved table inside the
packed inn.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Landlord Slivert Jutt vilishly delivered a fregle of guzzworts and a
ganticus plate of tweazle-sandwiches to the table, as Serraptomus officiously appealed
for calm, before loudly clearing his throat in what was most probably a totally
unnecessary manner. “Good creatures of
Winchett Dale,” he griffled, “and all our many esteemed visitors who have
travelled far and peffa-wide from other dales, I bid you all a most shindinculous
and fuzzcheck welcome to our humble inn for this saztaculous question even-up.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“I got’s meself a question,” a short-legged trullip asked from the
back. “You be getting fatter,
Serraptomus, or is it that your clothes be getting smaller?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
Serraptomous ignored the chickling, still trying his briftest to be
officious, going on to welcome and announce the visiting teams, which, as far
as Matlock could make out, occupied most of the other tables in the inn; some
clearly simply there for the guzzworts, others taking the competition a good
deal more seriously than the rest, and some simply looking peffa-confused at
the whole thing, even at this early stage.
Many dales were represented; a saztaculously dressed team from Alfisc
Dale, an oidy team of cloff-beetles from Scrittles Dale, a team of
bearded-hicklegoats from Svaeg Dale being just some of the creatures Matlock
could recognise.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
“Which ones are the snoffibs?” he
griffled to Ayaani, as she sat in his lap sipping at his guzzwort.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;">
She looked around the tables, taking her time, before finally pointing
to the three strange creatures, each with four eyes and the oidiest noses and
mouths, sat directly next to them.
“Them,” she griffled, pointing.
“They be snoffibs.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous paused, his mouth full
of tweazle-sandwiches, then immediately turned to the creatures, offering a
greasy and glopped up paw. “Even’up
snoffib folk,” he cheerfully griffled, as a glopp of drool ran from his yechus
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The
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“Well, not me, really,” Proftulous added for good measure, cramming another
sandwich in. “I just be here for the food. My briftest friend Matlock will be the one
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Matlock felt he should at least wave at politely as he could at the
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The snoffib rearranged his chair so the back of his large grey head
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“And now,” Serraptomus proudly announced, having introduced all the
other teams, “’Tis my most honourable pleasure to finally introduce to you
all…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Get on with it!” someone called out from the back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“…the team from Winchett Dale – Matlock, his dripple thing, and
Proftulous!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Landlord Sliver Jutt pid-padded over, whispgriffling in Serraptomus’ ear
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“But as it’s just been pointed out to me by good Mr Jutt, keeper of this
most fine hostelry…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“<i>Please</i> get on with it,” the voice from
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Serraptomus cleared his throat.
“…that because most of us here already be knowing who Matlock, his
dripple thing and Proftulous are, they not really be needing an introduction…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous quickly raised an eager paw.
“S’true, Serraptomous. All we be
needing is more of Slivert’s slurpilicious tweazle-sandwiches.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The snoffibs turned to Matlock, becoming rapidly russisculoffed with
delays to the proceedings, their skin now flushing pulsing greens and reds.
“Can you possibly shut that dworp thing of yours up, hare?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I find the briftest way is to simply let him eat,” Matlock
griffled. “The more he eats, the less he
griffles.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The snoffibs all pulled a face, as Slivert Jutt replenished Proftulous’
plate with another ganticus pile of tweazle sandwiches, before making his way back
to the middle of the crowded inn, and calling for silence, savouring the moment
as all eyes fell upon him. “Right,” he griffled. “Are we all being ready for the questions?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes!” Proftulous loudly griffled, filling his paws with food.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Is the right answer!” Jutt griffled, as a ganticus cheer filled the
inn, ringing right out to the village square. “The first pointy-thing will be
awarded to Winchett Dale! Well done,
Proftulous. You got’s enough sandwiches,
over there?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proftulous looked at the plate.
“No.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Is another right answer! You’s <i>never</i> be having enough tweazles to
eat! Winchett Dale now has another
pointy-thing!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Which makes two points,” Proftulous corrected him. “Even <i>I</i>
be knowing that much, Slivert.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“<i>Another</i> pointy-thing to
Winchet Dale!” Jutt roared, as once again the whole inn shook with ganticus cheers
and pawplause, the excrimbly creatures crammed at the window eagerly passing
the saztaculous news back to the waiting crowd outside. “Though I don’t quite
be knowing how many pointy-things that be making.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The nearest snoffib stood, outrage in all four eyes, the whole of his head
shaking, flushing the deepest reds and purples.
“This…this is peffa-outrageous!
I’ve never known anything as glopped up as this!” Silence gradually fell over the inn, as
everyone awkwardly looked at the peffa-russisculoffed snoffib. “Landlord, how can you possibly even <i>begin </i>to griffle that this is any sort
of proper and decent question even’up?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It be peffa-simple,” Proftulous replied from behind a mouth completely
crammed with half eaten sandwiches. “You
begins by opening your mouth, then you goes and griffles it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Correct!” Jutt cried, becoming
quite excrimbly, then turning to the crowd.
“Another right answer for Winchett Dale!
I don’t know how we be doing it, but we be winning this right easily!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I don’t know either, Slivert,” Proftulous. “Not even the oidest idea. Far too clottabussed, me.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Completely correct answer! Another point to Winchett Dale!!” Jutt griffled, as once again the whole inn
erupted into cheers, with creatures chickling loudly and clinking guzzwort-jugs
high in the air. “That be more right
answers than I can ever be counting!” he
griffled, turning to the excrimbly crowd.
“What you think that we just declares Winchett Dale the winner, right
now, to save everyone else looking all clottabussed – especially those snoffibs
over there?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Fuzzcheck idea, Slivert!”
Proftulous called out over the loud cheers.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“He’s done it again!” Jutt
cried. “It <i>is </i>a fuzzcheck idea, because it be one of <i>my</i> ideas! So that be another
pointy-thing to Winchett Dale! Honestly,
we must be the peffa-cleverest creatures in all the dales!” <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
The snoffib stood again, it face puce with rage, unable to conceal pure
and utter russisculoftulation in its shaking voice. “Just…just how much longer is this farce
going to go on?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Until it be ending, probably,” Proftulous calmly replied, motioning to
Slivert for another plate of sandwiches.
“Which also gives us another pointy-thing for a yet another correct
answer, methinks.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“But,” the snoffib cried out, “these aren’t <i>questions</i>! They’re not
questions at all!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Matlock, who had spent most of the time simply watching with a gently
amused smile, met the snoffib in the largest of its four eyes. “Well, just what are they then?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“They’re not <i>proper</i> questions!” He pointed a long, thin claw at Matlock
accusingly. “You! You’re supposed to be some sort of
majickal-hare, supposedly clever. You
know full well these aren’t proper questions at all!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Matlock considered this as silence fell over the inn, and everyone
waitied on his griffles. “You’re right,”
he eventually griffled. “I am a
majickal-hare. And as such, I can read,
make potions and tinctures, and sometimes even do saztaculous vrooshers with my
wand. But I really don’t know that that
makes me ‘clever’, I really don’t. But I
will griffle this, as far as I know, there are no ‘proper’ questions that I
know of – only perhaps, ‘proper’ answers to just some questions.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“What in Oramus’ name are you griffling about, hare?” the snoffib griffled, his two teammates
beside him nodding along in support.
“You know very well that I’m griffling about proper questions for a
question even’up. Hard questions. Peffa-difficult questions! Questions we can peffa-easily answer to show
how much more we snoffibs know than any other dale creatures! Not easy, clottabussed,
glopped-up questions that even a sandwich-eating dworp can answer!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Aah, but he <i>did</i> answer them,
didn’t he?” Matlock calmly griffled.
“And you <i>didn’t</i>. None of you.
Imagine that, three of the peffa-cleverest snoffibs from Snoffibs Dale –
beaten by a clottabussed dworp? And as
for your griffles about <i>difficult</i>
questions, I griffle you this – if you can answer them so easily, then by
definition, that has to make them easy-questions for <i>you</i> in the first place. So,
what you’ve been struggling with this even’up is accepting the fact that the
questions Proftulous successfully answered were really far too peffa-difficult
for you – even though you said they were too easy.” He gave the shocked, open-mouthed snoffibs
his familiar curling hare’s smile. “I
suggest you devote more time into looking into the real meaning and truth
behind questions, instead of merely trying to remember answers. And, as such, my question to all you is this
– which is more important; remembering answers, or asking the right questions?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
No-one griffled a single griffle for a long snutch of moments, until a
competing cloff-beetle from a nearby table raised an oidy wing to attract
Matlock’s attention. “I’ve no idea what
you’re griffling about, hare,” it griffled in a peffa-high voice. “But it sort of sounded alright, didn’t it,
fellas?” He nodded at his other two oidy
teammates who both shrugged before nodding uncertainly back.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
The snoffib rounded on them. “It
sounded,” he angrily griffled to the startled beetle, “exactly the sort of
glubbstooled, gobflopped nonsense I’d expect from a majickal-hare who’d spent
too many moon-turns in this most glopped-up dale!” He marched straight to the centre of the inn,
the other two snoffibs following closely behind, turning to everyone, his face
flushing and swirling in a changing sea of raging colours. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Methinks it’s going to get peffa-glopped any blinksnap now,” Ayaani
whispgriffled into Matlock’s long ear, as he hushed her and gently stroked the
top of her soft head.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“My name is Dr Irapus Klaxon,” the irate
snoffib loudly announced, turning to his two teammates. “This is Dr Ritellal Crumble. And this…this
is Spig.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“How come he’s not a doctor?”
someone called out.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Spig’s only here because Dr Forticous Grik couldn’t make it,” Klaxon
griffled, as the unfortunate Spig looked at his feet somewhat shamefully,
flushing an embarrassed pink. “Spig will be a peffa-clever doctor one sun-turn,
but at the moment, he still has far too many answers to learn. Many moon-turns of study will be required.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Bet you can’t wait for that, eh, Spiggy?” a slow-jarrop griffled from
the front, as chickles broke out around it.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Enough of your chickling!” Klaxon barked. “Spig’s progress is our concern, not
yours!” He turned to Slivert Jutt. “You, landlord! You are somehow going to somehow find it
within yourself to ask one peffa-difficult question that only <i>we</i> can answer, in order that <i>we</i> can win the prizes, and can finally
go home from this wretched, clottabussed place!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Seems fair,” Jutt griffled.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Of course it’s fair!” Klaxon griffled.
“We win. We <i>always</i> win. We <i>have to</i> win. Because we are snoffibs!” He took a breath, staring at everyone, daring
them with all four unblinking eyes to griffle even the oidiest griffle that
would break the heavy silence. Creatures
crammed at the windows waited as expectantly as those inside for Jutt to painfully
think of a question.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Is it going to take long?”
Klaxon asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Jutt closed his eyes, scratching his head, making a series of strange
guttural noises, concentration filling his landlord’s face. At length, he opened his eyes. “A question only you can answer?” he
griffled.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Yes,” Klaxon nodded, finally beginning to get excrimbly for the first
time that even’up. “A peffa, peffa, peffa-difficult question. A question about anything.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Slivert thought for another snutch of moments, before finally nodding to
himself. “All right. Are you ready?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Peffa-ready. Ready to win and
get the prize.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“You sure?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Completely. Get on with it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Right,” Jutt griffled, frowing
slightly as he formulated his question.
“What is…anything?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“What is <i>anything</i>?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“S’what I griffled,” Jutt nodded.
“What is anything?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Klaxon frowned. “But it’s not even
a question!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Indeed, it does be one,” Jutt proudly insisted. “You just griffled me to ask you a question
about anything, so I be asking you what <i>is
</i>anything?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Klaxon flushed bright greens and purple.
“But…but…” he stammered, balling his thin fists, “…it doesn’t even have
an <i>answer</i>! Anything is just <i>anything.</i> Anything can <i>be</i>
anything! ‘Tis the most glopped-up
question I’ve ever heard!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Jutt courteously bowed. “A
grillion thanks, Dr Klaxon. I do be
having my standards to be keeping up, after all.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Spig humbly raised a small, lizardlike hand, with a quietly griffled
suggestion for Jutt. “Perhaps, if you
could griffle us a question about…say…the moon, or the stars in the twinkling-lid,
then Dr Klaxon and Dr Crumble would be able to answer it. For they both consider themselves to be the
briftest astronomers in al the dales, you see.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Jutt frowned, confused.
“Astronomers? What be they,
then?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Creatures who study maps of the twinkling-lid,” Spig replied. “They know the name of every star, every
constellation. Sometimes they be called
lid-gazers.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Jutt tried his briftest to understand.
“And what in Balfsatulous name be a ‘constellation’ when it be at home,
young Spig?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“’Tis a group of stars,” Spig replied.
“They can sometimes form patterns shapes and pictures high in the
twinkling-lid. There are spuddles and
legends surrounding them. Many griffle
of the majickal power of the constellations.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Jutt looked into all four eyes of the earnest-faced young snoffib for a
long time, before finally turning to Matlock.
“Pictures and spuddles from stars?
This be true, Matlock?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“It be true,” Matlock confirmed from his table.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Jutt smiled, patting the cautious snoffib on the shoulder. “Then I can be confirming that you have been
answering a peffa-difficult question correctly, young Spig. And as such, I take great pleasure in making you
the winner of the question even’up!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
An appreciative round of pawplause broke around the inn, everyone
congratulating the confused young snoffib, as he desperately tried to divert
the attention onto his two scowling doctor teammates. “I really couldn’t have done it without good
Dr Klaxon and Dr Crumble.” He weakly
griffled, trying to ignore their frowns.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“So, that leaves us just to present the prizes to the winning team,”
Jutt announced, nodding at Serraptomus to take over, as he vilishly disappeared
behind the bar.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Serraptomus duly stepped forward and officiously puffed out his krate’s
chest, keen to do the honours. “Indeed,
Slivert. And I think we’d all agree that
we’ve all had the most saztaculous even’up so far.” He went through the business of slowly
thanking all the other visiting teams, as Jutt loudly searched for something behind
the bar. “Slivert, you got those prizes,
yet?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Slight problem,” Jutt griffled, weakly shrugging his shoulders. “I’ve
just be remembering that the prizes were two ganticus plates of
tweazle-sandwiches. And Proftulous has already
been eating them.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Oh, my flipperjubbles!” Serraptomus moaned, as gradually the gobflopped
news filtered to the waiting crowd of excrimbly creatures outside, inevitably
causing the loudest round of pawplause and chickling of the whole even’up. A chant of <i>‘Proftulous be eating all the prizes!’ </i>soon begin to ring around
the whole square, as inside the inn, Klaxon turned to Serraptomus, fury now writ
ganticus in all four eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“This even’up,” he struggled to griffle above the rising noise, russisculoffed
colours chasing themselves over his whole body, “has been a complete glopp-up; from
the peffa-first moment to the ridiculous, clottabussed last one! Your dale can’t even organise a question
even’up without eating the prizes!
Winchett Dale is still the biggest joke of all the dales! It always has been, and always will be!” He turned on the chanting room. “Just look at them - all fools! Each and every clottabussed one! What are you going to do, Serraptomus, when
come the morn’up, you have to host and organise the Dale Vrooshfest, eh? Or do you simply want me to pid-pad up to Trefflepugga
Path and tell everyone who’s currently on their way not to bother?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Serraptomus quickly called for silence.
“What did you just griffle?” he asked, beginning to get an oidy bit
twizzly.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“That tomorrow’s Dale Vrooshfest here in Winchett Dale will be just as
badly organised and glopped-up as tonight’s question even’up,” Klaxon griffled,
a thin smile spreading over his oidy mouth.
“And then, it won’t just be me that sees just how glubbstooled
everything is here – it’ll be thousands of visiting creatures besides.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
Serraptomus slowly swallowed, his nervous gulp echoing around the
shocked inn. “The Dale
Vrooshfest…is…here…tomorrow morn’up?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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....'direct' from the Winchett Dale Majickal Stores - your <i>krellit's-tooth necklace </i>isn't only one the the dale's '<i>must-have</i>' fashion accessories this season - but also helps ward off any unwanted intrusions by slow-jarrocks, whiffles and leaning-jutters...which, if you know anything about these rather peffa-glopped creatures, you'll also know to be a peffa-useful thing, indeed....<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;">Well, it's been a fairly
momentous, if not saztaculous few sun-turns here in Winchett Dale (and pretty
hare-raising, too, to be peffa-honest!) as we finally managed to complete and
launch our Kickstarter pitch for Matlock's 2nd ganticus adventure - The Puzzle
of the Tillian Wand - and less than 24 hours in, and we've already a ganticus<i> 44%
funded - </i>all thanks to our incredible crumlush backers - we are eternally grateful to
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well have thought they had been drinking one or two many guzzworts at The
Winchett Dale Inn, but the most saztaculous thing is that it <i>is </i>possible!!
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their ilk to pid-pad straight past the conventional 'gatekeepers' (editors,
agents, pr people and the like) and instead take the work to the folk that
really matter the most - the end-users (or, in our case the
peffa-crumlush <i>'Saztaculous Matlock Folk'</i>) It's online
philanthropic democracy (please don't ask Proftulous to say that - especially
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nearest wall in less than a blinksnap...) - or put another way - if the folk
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Urusla Brifthaven Stoltz 'drops-in' to the dale...</h4>
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Once again, it has been a peffa-buzy sun-turn in the dale - as we continue to spread the griffles about <a href="http://matlockthehare.com/page/571385-trefflepuggapath.aspx" target="_blank">The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path</a> - begin writing and illustrating the new book (The Puzzle of the Tillian Wand) and generally try and keep house and leverets in order... </div>
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So it was a peffa-tzorkly surprise when Ursula dropped-in midweek (she never announces it, just arrives, and assumes you'll be there) to insist that we make the first ever Ursula figure - as she was quite russisculoffed to learn that Matlock had already beaten her to the honour.</div>
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Not wishing to disappoint the white hare-witch, she quickly set a pose, demanding it be replicated, and threatening to vroosh us if we didn't comply, before setting off again, high into the lid on her vroffa-broom....</div>
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Ursula - inevitably, of course - returned to personally inspect her likeness - and rendered it 'Peffa-tzorkly and quite gerrfuffelled!' - leaving us to breathe a ganticus sigh of relief that she liked it so much... Aah, well another week over....but rumour in Winchett Dale has it that there could be an oidy dripple on its way to see us next week...</div>
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Ursula's completely handmade and saztaculously finished, peffa-tzorkly figure can now be found <a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=171327735043&ssPageName=STRK:MESCX:IT" target="_blank">here </a>on eBay.... May she bring her gerrfufflled tzorkliness to us all...!<br /> </h3>
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Ever since Matlock's first ever watercolour, one thing I've always wanted to do was make a Matlock figure - so this week, and over the last few sun-turns, when not painting or working on the new book, I decided to give it a go - choosing the right fabric, working out a pattern, then giving it a go...</div>
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I hadn't really done anything like this in far too many sun-turns, but it did bring me back to schooldays - rows of us struggling to thread needles as we taught the best way to insert zips etc... A bit of a glopped-up pain at the time, but something that perhaps has been lost these days. So it's saztaculous to see a recent resurgence in handmade crafts and practical skills beginning to happen. And perhaps that is the real heart of Winchett Dale, Matlock and all the other peffa-clottabussed creatures who live there - a love of simple things...<br />
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I suppose that by now I should have been getting on with other things, but the more the little chap came together, the more I found myself wanting to finish it (Matlock tells me that this is always Proftulous' excuse when it comes to eating tweazle-pies!) determined to make his long purple shoes, a wand, and add some handmade copper fastenings I made with a block and hammer, then curled with pliers...<br />
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And then, it was over - he was done - the first ever collectable handmade Matlock cloth figure - hand painted and complete with his very own crystal-mounted magical-wand! Once again, Matlock had taken me to those majickal places of my youth I'd forgotten - but then, he 's always doing that...and I'm sure he will continue to do to whoever ends up owning him....</div>
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Jacqui and I were reminded of this just few even'ups ago as we sat outside in the warm Spring even'up (with the occasional trupplejuice or two) when we realised we has 'missed' Matlock's 2nd birthday. We simply hadn't marked the magical-chap's big day in any way whatsoever - so decided to begin to produce and hand-make a collectors series of signed artefacts from the world of Winchett Dale - we'd call them 'Dale Treasuries' - bringing just a 'snutch' of Matlock's majickal world peffa-closer to his growing admirers...</div>
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Indeed, it has never failed to delight and inspire us that the main reason Matlock has 'grown' from just a single miniature watercolour Jacqui painted (just over) two years ago, is down to people (the 'good and saztaculous Matlock-folk' as we like to call you all!) asking for more about his world, his clottabussed friends, his magical-adventures and the whole of Winchett Dale and beyond...</div>
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In two last two years, there have been hundreds of collectable, miniature watercolour artworks, prints, mugs, cards, a series of handmade adventures, promotional animations, and now a 396 page book - <a href="http://matlockthehare.com/page/571385-trefflepuggapath.aspx" target="_blank">The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path</a> - the first in a planned trilogy all featuring a magical-hare in green robes, cap and long purple shoes!</div>
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So, in the midst of this, we decided on the hand-made 'collectables' - which we intend to sell via <a href="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Matlock-The-Hare" target="_blank">our ebay-shop </a>- as totally exclusive signed artworks and sculptures...</div>
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As with all things Matlock, it's also been ganticus fun deciding what to make, which 'bits' of the dale to bring to life - and how to make and package them. Latest from The Winchett Dale Workshops is this saztaculously boxed miniature vroffa-broom (which no truly tzorkly witch would be seen without up in the twinkling-lid - just ask <a href="http://matlockthehare.com/page/569756-ursula-brifthaven-stoltz.aspx" target="_blank">Ursula Brifthaven Stoltz</a> if you don't believe us!)</div>
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Ursula's miniature, handmade collectable, signed Vroffa-broom can now be found <a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=171314727870&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT" target="_blank">here </a>on ebay...<br />
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Critics have long accused self-published books of lacking the quality of their conventionally published counterparts - both in content, and in overall feel. Perhaps, 10 years ago this might have been true, however with the advances in Print on Demand printing technology, spotting any so-called 'differences' between self-published and conventionally published tomes these days is a peffa-tough business. Trefflepugga Path, running at 396 pages, including dozens of black and white illustrations, arrived from SilverWood and the printers looking as good (if not better, in our humble opinion) than any coventionally published book put out by the large houses. The paperstock was shindinculous, it felt weighty and simply begging to be opened and read. We couldn't have been happier. And with the ability to be able to work closely with SilverWood during its design, and to retain overall editorial control was a truly liberating and welcoming experience. <br />
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Prior to this, I have frequently dreaded an editor telling me that the cover 'looks gorgeous, darling' knowing full well it would have most likely have been ripped from a catalogue of stock-shots, then colour-tinted. There is little worse, sometimes, than finally seeing your cherished work arriving from the publishers, only to see the worst possible cover for it. It happened too many times before - but not at SilverWood - who listened to our requests and suggestions, and acted on them accordingly. To say we were pleased, is very much an understatement...</div>
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Way back - perhaps too far back - in the early 1990's, I managed to catch myself a 'lucky' break by coming to the attention of a prominent crime-writing agent, via a few short-stories I written for various magazines and anthologies.</div>
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Excited (and saztaculously naive, of course) I took along my magnum-opus to date, some 450 pages of what I considered to be award-winning prose, to be told that although she would sign me, now was the time for me to go away and write a 'proper' crime novel. Further, I had about three to six months to do it, and they would then <i>consider </i>submitting it to a leading editor of the genre.</div>
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I wrote the first version in three months - they looked at it, made changes, I re-drafted, they made more changes, I re-drafted again. It finally went before a commissioning editor. They focussed grouped it with a readers panel, who suggested (or insisted!) on more changes - a male character would now be female, etc - until come publication 2 years later - the 'book' resembled as much of my original thoughts as I resembled a fully competent author.</div>
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So there I was, languishing in psychological thrillers, teaching, mid-listing, going to occasional dreadful readings my publicist had somehow decided were 'appropriate' for me (too many too mention, but some hilarious ones in there, believe me) - when up popped Matlock the Hare, from this very first miniature watercolour Jacqui painted two years ago...</div>
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A series of handmade books and collectable artworks followed, as demand grew from folk keen to know more about Matlock's world, and his adventures - and we began seriously working at producing a full-length novel (the first in a planned trilogy) after trips into local schools convinced us he was somehow just as appealing to younger readers, as he was to our older, established followers. People, we always knew, simply love to be immersed in a magical world, where anything can happen, and most probably will...</div>
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Inevitably, my genre-specific agent, used to hard-boiled crime thrillers, admitted she wouldn't be keen to push the book - allowing us to self-publish via SilverWood, by-passing the long, arduous, and often rather depressing world of editors, sub-editors, agents and the like.</div>
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Have yourselves the most saztaculous Easter - and may all your pid-pads be shindinculous and crumlush ones...</div>
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Once again, the time has pid-padded up on us when our thoughts turn to spring - and what is happening both outside (the excrimbly stuff, what with all the trees and plants beginning to griffle, flower, grow and blossom) and the peffa-glopped-up task of cleaning one's humble abode on the inside...</div>
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But if you have a sinking feeling in your Sisteraculous about spring-cleaning, the thing is not to panic and get russisculoffed and twizzly - simply get yourself a dripple, as it will cheerfully (mostly) attend to all the oidy, most peffa-glubbstooled tasks that you really want to avoid, leaving you to do far easier and more enjoyable things that you really want to... All dripples require is a bed in a cupboard to nifferduggle in, a few sips of guzzwort and an oidy bowl of niff-soup at the end of each sun-turn, and -generally - they're perfectly happy with their lot as a majickal familiar...</div>
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Here's a saztograph of my dripple nifferduggling in its oidy-crumlush cupboard bed. As you can see, I haven't clipped its claws for a while, so frankly I think I shall soon have to give it a few digging tasks to do, as I wouldn't want it to leave too many scratches on my crumlush wooden surfaces as it earnestly tries to polish them all clean for me...</div>
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Of course, while there are many advantages to dripples, I'd be telling you spuddles if I didn't griffle to you the main disadvantage - their availability. Born on the very same sun-turn as the intended magical-hare master they will serve, dripples can only be found at the Annual Currick Dale Dripple Fair, which requires a peffa-twizzly trip up Trefflepugga Path before you even get there.</div>
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However if you are fortunate enough to survive your journey (and here, it pays to remember that many have been stroffed trying!) you will be greeted by the saztaculous sight of tents, banners, hundreds of creatures drinking guzzworts and singing - and of course, a field full of available dripples, all desperate to be chosen to serve as your loyal familiar. The trick is to be sure to find the one that was born on the very same sun-turn you were. For if any magical-hare leaves with the wrong dripple, things can get peffa-glopped-up indeed, a task made all the more difficult by the one simple fact that dripple never, <i>ever </i>griffle. They'll listen, mostly obey, but expecting any sort of answers from them is as pointless as expecting Proftulous to stop eating tweazle-pies...</div>
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My advice is to listen peffa-carefully to your what your Sisteraculous is telling you, and not to choose the most desperate dripple, or the one doing the briftest tricks to impress. Simply look for the dripple you feel is <i>already</i> yours, and it should stand out from all the others quite easily. Then take your selected dripple to the event organisers, and they'll check the records to see if you have chosen correctly. Provided you have, it's time to head for guzzwort tent and see just how fuzzcheck your new familiar is at fetching you a jug of the dale's finest ale, before you have to set off once more to face the many twizzly perils along Trefflepugga Path once more...</div>
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Once safely back in your own dale (Winchett Dale in my case), waste not the oidiest amount of time explaining to you dripple exactly what is expected of it, and set it to work immediately on a series of household tasks, clearly griffling the standards you expect of it at all times. Then reward it with a small bowl of niff-soup, and perhaps a trip around the surroundings of its new home, riding in the back of your long majician's hooded robe. Most dripples will be perfectly happy to accompany you as you pid-pad around during the sun-turn and even'ups - however, if for any reason, they seem even the oidiest bit reluctant to go with you - then <i>never</i> force them to. Simply set them to work on other chores, which they'll be more than happy to do. </div>
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However, please bear in mind not to overload them with too much to do, as they are really only oidy creatures, and will take longer cleaning up than you would, and they can sometimes get an oidy bit russisculoffed or even eyesplashy if they feel they've not completed all the chores you've set them...</div>
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So, back to the spring-cleaning - remember it will be your dripple's most productive time of the year, as it gives your cottage a thoroughly good clean whilst you attend to your garden outside - and perhaps the more important task of checking all the cupboards and dark corners inside for any unexpected winter guests that have crept in during the icy moon-turns to settle down and wait for spring. Mostly these will be harmelss groinks and fludgers (perhaps the odd gruttle or two - and really, they are <i>peffa</i>-odd) and can simply be vrooshed outside after a stern talking to. Chances are they'll creep back next winter, anyway - it's simply the way of these things, so there's really peffa-little you can do about them. Indeed, one of my groinks has been coming here ever since I first pid-padded into Winchett Dale as a young leveret without even the oidest majickal extrapluff or thought in my head - and the strangest thing is that if it wasn't around, then I'd probably worry about it. </div>
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Once groinks are inside, they mostly keep themselves to themselves, as opposed to dark-twizzlies, who will be the first to get their grey-paws on any unattended jars of pickling frippleberries they can find, often making far too much noise trying to open the lids at night whilst you're simply trying to nifferduggle...</div>
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By now, if you and your dripple have managed to complete all the chores and get rid any unexpected guests, you should both be in need of a well-earned reward of a crumlush brottle-leaf brew - best made and served, of course, by your dripple as its final chore of the sun-turn, leaving you content and peffa-perfectly relaxed that all is done, and you can go and safely nifferduggle and dream of all the saztaculous sun-turns and crumlush majickal adventures to be had in the coming few summer moon-turns...</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">For more griffles and information about dripples, Winchett Dale, my good self - and the peffa-twizzly dangers of Trefflepugga path - visit <a href="http://www.matlockthehare.com/">www.matlockthehare.com</a>, this very sun-turn...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht1FA4Nf23M" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see the twizzly-promo for my brand new full-length illustrated adventure... The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - out 11th April, 2014.</span></i></div>
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It may seem an oidy bit difficult to believe this Sluffsday morn's, as we lay shivering in our beds, but Spring has peffa-definitely arrived. And for those of us in the dale, it makes for a busy time. Well, some of us - that is, those of us who see Spring as a saztaculous time to welcome back the crumlush greenery, the longer even'ups, lighter morn's, and the chance to see the first oidy shoots of Summer pid-padding gently towards us. Others, it has to be griffled (of which Serraptomus, Fragus, Proftulous and Shriffle - to name but a pawful) see precious little difference in the seasons, somehow managing to spend each year-turn merely pursuing the things they love the brightest - which in Proftulous' case largely means seeking out tweazle-nests for his 'slurpilicious tweazle-pies' (his griffles, not mine, as I've never eaten even the oidiest part of a tweazle in my life, although Proftulous will swear to you that he once dropped a tweazle tail into my niff-soup when my hare's back was turned) to see him through another peffa-lazy sun-turn.</div>
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However, in the dale, Spring is my peffa-favourite time of the year, and I tend to leave my potionary vrooshing duties to spend more time outside in my cottage-garden, propagating and planting, tending my niffplants to ensure a rich Autumn harvest...</div>
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...which can be a tricky business, and should be only attempted at night and NEVER under a full-moon - for although niffs themselves are saztaculously slurpilicious, the plants can tend to get a little russisculoffed if they know you are picking their crumlush fruit - so always pick a dark even'up, and check they are nifferduggling before approaching them peffa-quietly to collect your shindinculous harvest. And even though it's unlikely that they will hear you, I find it's just simply good manners to whispgriffle a 'thank-you' to each sleeping plant - after all, methinks that manners cost nothing (I've tried explaining this to Proftulous many times, but as he hasn't the oidiest understanding of 'cost' or 'nothing', they tend to be wasted griffles inside his ganticusly yechus ears).</div>
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My saztaculous publishers at Silverwood Books have prepared a special Pdf ARC (Advanced Review Copy) of The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path in all its shindinculous glory...and those of us in the dale would love to see just what you think of it!</div>
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You know those sun-turns when they're simply don't seem to be enough hours in the sun-turn...? I guess we've just had seven of those on the pid-padding trot, with an unexpected arrival of a freggle of long-haired juzzles, all intent on making life in the cottage as glubbstooled as possible. Not that it's the juzzles' fault, for you have to remember that it's simply their way - their juzzliness, if you like. Yes, they can make things a bit glopped-up at times, but really there isn't a bad bone in their softulous - you simply have to let them juzzle their way around, and eventually they'll pid-pad somewhere else... </div>
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So it was on this occasion, just as I held my hawthorn wand high above my long heare's ears and pointed it straight at the cracksploding lid above, I had the peffa-unfortunate temerity to quite forget just what the correct griffles were for vrooshing the storm away. Of course, not being the sort ot majickal-hare to give up at this point, I did what I normally do in these sorts of occasions and griffled out something I hoped would suffice in what were, frankly, peffa-glopped circumstances for any creature, let alone my drenched self...</div>
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And my memories of that shindinculous night, as we all sat on rooftops and watched in saztaculous amazement? Well, some griffle that I was spotted swimming amongst it all, crumlush in the waters, enjoying every oidy moment, knowing deep in my Sisteraculous that Oramus' majick would be far better than a mere majickal-hare's in sorting everything out and getting us all fuzzcheck again...</div>
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<i>Late one even'up Matlock has been warned by the Gulyptolin of Thinking Lake that Winchett Dale is about to experience and peffa-ganticus and glopped-up flood. Ignored by the clottabussed creatures of the dale who simply want to niffferduggle in their beds, Matlock returns to the lake on his boat to notice a twizzly, eerie glow from the deep...</i></div>
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The more I peered over the side of my boat, good reader of these glopped and woeful griffles, the more I found myself getting all twizzly; my softulous shaking and a voice in my Sisteraculous griffling me to row straight back to the shore...</div>
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However, the nearer the glow got to the boat, the more I could begin to make out what it was...my briftest and most peffa-clottabussed friend Proftulous, surfacing from the lake, with a freggle of twisting, glowing quiller fish on his yechus wet head.</div>
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"Proftulous!" I griffled. "What in Oramus' name are you doing swimming around in the lake? You nearly gave me a glopped case of the whurffs!"</div>
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"Sorry, Matlock," he replied as the quiller fish swam away, leaving just his head and furry shoulders bobbing in the moonlight. "I just be looking for tweazles to make meself a slurpilicious treazle-pie."</div>
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"In the lake?" I griffled, trying not to get too russiculoffed. "Proftulous, this is a lake. Tweazles are, to everyone's knowledge, land-based creatures."</div>
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"What also make for the most briftest pie-filling," he vilishly agreed, nodding enthusiastically, and sending a snutch of murpworms shooting from his ganticus ears. "Let's not be forgetting that, Matlock."</div>
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I sighed. "But," I gently tried, "it seems to me that there's only the oidiest chance of all the oidiest chances in Oramus' great dales that you'll ever find a tweazle in the lake."</div>
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"Still a chance, though, isn't it?" he griffled, trying not to look too hurt. "And even you've always griffled that even the oidiest chances can sometimes be saztaculous."</div>
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"Hmm," I agreed. "But I'm not sure I was griffling about lake-dwelling tweazles at the time. Perhaps you should try looking for them in Wand Wood, like you normally do?"</div>
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But my briftest, most peffa-clottabussed friend shook his ganticus, yechus head. "Already tried that. Been lump-thrumping all over the woods all sun-turn, Matlock, with my stomach grimpling and getting far too empty. And there not be a slurpilicious tweazle in sight. `Tis like they all be gone, just upped and left the dale."</div>
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He shifted slightly, taking slight offence. "I may be yechus and ganticus," he griffled, "but `tis simply because I be big-boned in me softulous, Matlock. 'Tisn't because I have been eating too many tweazle-pies, like you be trying to be implying. That be a glubbstooled thing to griffle to your briftest friend."</div>
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"After all," he went on, "I's not be griffling to you how glopped-up your ears look, do I? Or how clottabussed you look in your shoes? Or how most of your wandy-vrooshers go all gobflopped? I don't ever be griffling anything of those things to you, do I?"</div>
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"Then I be peffa-sorry about that, too," he griffled. "I tries not to be griffling those things from now on, and we can be all briftest friends again, then you can majick and vroosh me grillions of slurpilicious tweazles for me to be pastry-ing into ganticus pies again."</div>
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The wind had begun to pick up, and overhead thick dark clouds swept in to cover the moon. "I'll try," I promised Proftulous. "But right now, methinks we should take cover, for it looks like that there's a ganticus cracksplody storm on the way. If I'm right, then the tweazles have already sensed this and probably pid-padded to higher ground. It's what we've all got to do now, before the dale floods."</div>
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"Floods?" P:roftulous griffled, beginning to get twizzly. For, despite his size and yechus appearance, it doesn't take a lot to get him twizzly. He's always been that way, and is most probably the reason why other creatures in the dale sometimes like to play tricks on him and chickle when he gets in a peffa-twizzle. "You not be joking me to make me look all clottabussed, Matlock?"</div>
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"No," I assured him, as a ganticus garrumbloom echoed over the Winchett dale, and the first heavy sploinks of lid-splashy dropped all around, angrily drumming on the surface of the lake. "Head to Twinkling Lid Heights, peffa-vilish! I'll meet you there later!"</div>
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Watching proftulous lump-thump safely away, I took out my wand and pointed it high into the lid above, hoping with all my majickal-hare's heart that I could somehow conjure a lid-splashy vroosher that might end the peffa-ganticus storm and save my beloved dale...</div>
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"Matlock," it griffled, "You must prepare the village and griffle to everyone of the ganticus waters that are coming to the dale. It will be most peffablasty and lidsplashy, and the brook will surely overflow."<br />
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Well, to be honest, dear reader of these griffles, I was rather surprised by the griffles. I looked up into the twinkling-lid, alive with saztaculous stars, and couldn't see a single cloud anywhere. All was fuzzcheck, as quiet and crumlush an even'up as you could have wished for. But seeing as the Gulyptolin's griffles are ones no creature can afford to ever ignore, (and most peffa-definitely majickal-hares) I duly set off for the village and began urgently knocking on everyone's creakers, telling them all I had heard in the Gulyptolin's warning...<br />
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Strangely (although not entirely surprisingly, as Winchett Dale's creatures can be rather glopped-up and clottabussed at times) no one wanted to hear about the forthcoming lidsplashy and peffablasty, with most of them griffling that I would be better spending my time making potions, tinctures and spells rather than waking everyone up in the middle of the night and telling them about a flood that would never, ever happen.<br />
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"Abso-peffa-lutely." I insisted. "Tis why we must all be prepared. We should surely all head for the limestone cliffs of Twinkling-Lid heights. We'll be safe there."<br />
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But the disidula hadn't realy heard; it still couldn't get it's oidy mind around the relatively simply concept of a griffling fish. It's just the way with disidulas, even leaning ones. "Never heard so much glubbstooled nonsense in me short life," it griffled. "Only place I be heading up to is me bed for some crumlush nifferduggles. Griffling fish, Matlock, honestly, have you been at the guzzworts again?"<br />
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Morn'up all! It's been a peffa-momentous couple of weeks here at in Winchett Dale, with 'all paws to the pump' as we've struggled, wrestled and gloofed our way into making re-designing our sazto-site (what you would probably call a 'website') to hopefully give all you good creatures out in The Great Beyond more shindinculous glimpses into everything that's occuring here...<br />
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Our brand 'newlook' sazto-site is now up and running at <a href="http://www.matlockthehare.com/" target="_blank">www.matlockthehare.com </a> and is peffa-well worth a pid-pad around, let me griffle you that...<br />
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Here I am on the old steam-driven slazztop,checking me twit-feed (which reminds me, I must get Proftulous some more tweazle-pies soon!) in between checking the new site to make sure it's the briftest Winchett Dale experience for you.<br />
You'll find a host of saztaculous goodies, signed prints and original artwork, plus information about me new book, the peffa-eagerly anticipated `The Riddle of Treffelpugga Path', together with your chance to own truly crumlush<i> Limited Edition </i>prints of illustrations taken from the book, just like this one:<br />
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Along with a peffa-rare chance to own one of the illustrations from my very first book... So, please, have a shincinculous pid-pad around the new website, and enter our majickal world of Winchett Dale at <a href="http://www.matlockthehare.com/" target="_blank">www.matlockthehare.com</a><br />
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SHOOTING THE PROMO - A HECTIC SUN-TURN IN THE POTIONARY...<br />
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last week, Winchett Dale was besieged with a freggle of peffa-high flying media folk to begin shootiung me first ever sazto-vid (something they griffled a 'promo' whatever that may be...) to give an oidy taster for you good folk of just what to expect in `The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path'.<br />
It was a peffa-long sun-turn, I can tell you, with the dripple and I having to be all filmed, but the nice sazto-vid folk did let us have a guzzwort or two along the way...although clearly from this saztograph, the dripple might have one guzzwort too many...again...<br />
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Anyway, to see the results of all our labours before we got too guzzwort-glopped, check out the 'promo' at<br />
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Rumours circulate in the dale that there's more to come, so be sure to stay peffa-tuned, good folk! <br />
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AND PINTEREST TOO!<br />
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Yes, as if sazto-sites and sazto-vids weren't enough, someone here in the dale (it could well have been Fragus the Disidula, as he's normally to first to come up with saztaculous suggestions, then pid-pad away whenever there's any hard-work to be done...) thought it would be good to have a Matlock the Hare Pintrest-thingy, as it would also give another glimpse into the majickal world of Winchett Dale...<br />
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So, with much hurrumping and peffa-vrooshing, we managed to create a selcetion of boards for you to see (including some of my first-ever appearances!!) at<br />
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Well worth a look, methinks, and you may well find the original inspiration, and peffa-rarely glimpsed entrance to the real Trefflepugga path, too.... Go on, take a look, see if you can find it!<br />
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So, all in all, a juzzpapping two weeks, but a saztaculous `thank-you' to all the shindinculous `Matlock folk' out there whose enthusiasm gives me the encouragement to keep pid-padding...! <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But this sun-turn being a Sluffsday, everyone had to sluff back off to doing their chores and work, after the shindinculous Dooday and Scruffsday weekend. And it already seems a peffa-long time before Yaayday night, and we all get together for guzzworts and general chickling in the Winchett Dale Inn. You'd like it there, 'tis the best venue for live trinkulah music, and landlord Slivert Jutt always sees us right for a saztaculous even'up, every time...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But back to this sun-turn, and really, apart from having to collect a limping thwort-frettle and drudge a kettle-bennion that was frankly well in need of a right good neffle-hammering, all was going peffa-well....until it happened...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...there I was, in me potionary, trying to smelt some trikulum for the new kettle-bennion, and I became aware of a most peffa-strange thing. My faithful dripple, (wearing Winchett Dale approved safety-glasses, let us be clear on that) made a noise, a tiny noise - what we griffle in the dale to be an 'oidy' noise - almost as if it wanted to griffle with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now what, you might well griffle, is so strange about that? And t'would be a peffa-good griffled question - except for the fact that dripples NEVER griffle, ever! It just doesn't happen! Yet I clearly heard it do so with my long brown hare's ears, and t'was quite the most shindinculous thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I waited until the Trikulum had cooled to see if the dripple would try to griffle again, encouraging it with oidy pieces of lilfrick-cheese, but of the noises, there was no more, yet I definitely heard it, which, whilst not being peffa-saztaculous to you, is really quite wonderful to me, proving I suppose, that sometimes even the most oidiest of things can sometimes give us paws for thought....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I just have this oidy growing feeling in my Sisteraculous that the dripple's griffling might well be leading to another one of my saztaculous majickal adventures, peffa-soon...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of you might well be wondering just who I am, or how it is that a hare can even hold a quill, well that's because I'm what's known in Winchett dale as a majickal-hare, so some things come more peffa-easily to me than others (notwithstanding vrooshing a glopped-up disidula, which can frequently go wrong, so PLEASE don't try it, unless you have the right hawthorn wand, a grimmut of shruckle-leaves and can stand well back...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As for where I live, well, that be Winchett Dale, a truly peffa-crumlush place, that if you ever happened to pid-pad to, I'm pretty peffa-sure you'd be quietly enchanted and impressed by - except if you happened to bump into Proftulous, one of my briftest friends, but who frankly could do with eating a few less tweazle-pies and having a bath more than once every few moon-turns...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As you can see, `tis a rather crumlush dale, and where might it be? To find us, you'd have to be pid-padding high in what you call The Derbyshire Peak District. There, you might stumble upon the oidy beginnings of Trefflepugga Path, which would eventually lead you down into Winchett Dale - if the long, long-nosed krellits don't find you first, of course...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, less of me griffling, I've work to do in the potionary, but I'll be back peffa-soon in just a couple of sun-turns to let you know all that's going on in the dale - which, at the moment, is quite a lot, I can griffle you that.... And for anyone wondering just what I'm `griffling' about, then you could do no better than visiting me dalespeak griffle glossary at <a href="http://www.matlockthehare.com/page14.htm" target="_blank">ww.matlockthehare.com/page14.htm</a> , and learn to be speaking some of them shindinculous griffles yourselves....</span></div>
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Somsup, and crumlush majickal wishes until next time. </span><br />
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