… which is why my Fairies are as I’d have liked them to be when I was a child … to have jetpacks, pet dragons, ride on hummingbirds and wear leather jackets! Which I found odd, and a bit limiting! So, this is partly why all my Christmas Elf and Fairy Letters have been written for girls AND boys. One thing I did notice back in the dinosaur era of my childhood is, things in the shops tended to be separated into ‘for girls’ and ‘for boys’. Delivered By Grown-ups … Magic!Īs a child I’d often be found knee deep in a stream, or building a den up in a tree somewhere … and I was always covered in grass stains, stinging nettle rashes and mud.
