THREE GOATS GRUFF

Since the Blind Goats have been diligently working on the music for THREE GOATS GRUFF for this year's Gooseberry Fair I've decided to honor the story I am writing for this by sculpting the characters while I think in which direction our tale should go.  Since crushing troll bones is out of the question in this day and age, I'm guessing I'd better make my troll a bit more likable!  And, in sooth, I'm just as glad......I'm starting to like the wee bugger.   :)

Ohhhh.......

Once there were three very fine goats-

Very fine goats-

Very fine goats-

Oh, once there were three very fine goats

On the goat side of the mea-dow.........

I look forward to bringing you the rest!  
Trip-trap-trip-trap!

xo ~Mimi

GOBLIN MARKET

I have just recently stumbled upon Christina Rossetti.

She is an absolutely brilliant poet.

I highly recommend her to my like-minded friends.

xo   ~Fox

The English poet Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5,1830-1894)

 wrote poems of love, fantasy, and nature, verses for children, and devotional poetry and prose.

I have to give credit for my stumble to, well, first the Universe, as I believe She always tosses in your path what you need to be reading.  And second, to another stumble, LeFanu, who writes amazingly clever Victorian short stories.  Laura Silver Bell caught my heart and then my research led me to Rossetti.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost storywriter of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.

Clearly, good reading is a matter of good stumbling!

Enjoy!

~Fox

 

MAG 107

Sarlot for Magpie Tales

Edgar was on excruciatingly intimate terms with his Brobdingnagian ardor for Charlotte
but even he was loathe to admit, the moleskin eyebrows had to go.

I LOVE PLAYING WITH LETTERS AND WORDS AND IMAGES AND WRITER FRIENDS

AND EVEN MOLES AT THE MAG!

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