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12th September 2023

Hello!

Bimbo here, at the Campaign Office.

Time to update you on our search for Tom and Ruffy.

While Ellie was off investigating Fairy Prisons, everyone else threw themselves into wishing.

I have some reservations about this.

But I think it does no harm.

And it keeps everyone focused on the project in hand, until we can allocate more practical tasks.

We reconvened for another Zoom meeting.

Lopsy told us that she’d had a birthday cake, with candles, which of course is a valid wishing opportunity.

Though everyone knows that, like most of us, she has her actual birthday on Christmas Day.

I pointed this out to Teddy, but you know what he’s like.

If she asked for birthday cakes every day of the year, he’d make them for her.

(As a matter of fact, my birthday is not on Christmas Day. I was found in a second-hand chest of drawers on Moving Day, but the date wasn’t noted at the time.)

Monkey’s kebab van has broken down, so he’s been considering alternative modes of transport.

He got excited at the thought of magic carpets.

Oh, what’s that?

I excused myself from the meeting to to go and see who was knocking on my door.

It was Ellie, back from visiting the Fairy Prison.

We wound up the Zoom meeting, agreeing that everyone who is not busy researching old prisons would try wishing on whatever carpet they had access to.

We decided the safest wish was for the carpet to travel unaccompanied to fetch Tom and Ruffy.

This avoids the risk of someone (I’m thinking particularly of Monkey and Lopsy) somehow falling off the carpet, or losing it while far from home, and being unable to get home.

I am very much of Gibbs’s opinion, that this is not a very hopeful line of enquiry.

But I suppose it can do little harm.

I’ll squeeze a courgette to make a refreshing drink.

Little Strawberry has been supplying us all with courgettes.

I think we do her a favour when we take a few of them off her hands.

This is a nourishing and refreshing drink.

And very good for using up courgettes.

I really don’t have much faith in all this wishing. But I certainly do wish Tom and Ruffy were safe home.