The Flying Castle Stories, 1, 2 and 3 by Robert Mayfield
“Yes Jack, now we’ve got to get to the bank, you have run me out of money as usual!”
Jack in flight
Hope you enjoyed something of the inspiration that fired me up to write these stories woven round my home town with all its history, heritage and landscape. A brief visit to the website
http//ww.flyingcastlestories.co.uk
will show you the flying castle its setting and the locations of some of the characters in the stories. Some of these cannot be found like my little dog Paddy, and Rosalinda was inspired by the name of a shop. Unfortunately however one character is well and truly remote from reality and that is Lucky Jim. He found his way into these stories from my story The Time Chase, about Robin Aide and the great wizard Ubiquitous, which I wrote in 1983 The inspiration for The Time Chase came about when teaching history, and I wanted to make things like the Ice Age a bit of fun It was just a way of taking history and giving it a bit of a squeeze! In those days the name Harry Potter was just a name!
Two of the next ‘Flying Castle stories
Sarah's Pumpkin.
Sarah's mum and dad run a veg shop in Middle Street. As Halloween approaches Sarah sets up a large pumpkin in the shop window with a candle inside. The candle starts to fade, but when the ghostly Dan Roberts from the Town Hall just around the corner taps his large nose he casts a magical spell over the pumpkin much to the delight of Sarah and her parents.
Blackie and Tottie
Jack's mum tries to save a baby blackbird (Blackie) by placing it in a nest of straw where the tortoise has created a nice bed for itself. Unfortunately the tortoise (Tottie) decides that this is just the place to go to sleep. So the plans to nurse the little bird do not work out, but after hearing what Seamus the Pixie and Lucky Jim have to say life becomes much brighter. After all how can you keep a straight face when a little man standing barely taller than a bottle of fairy liquid, and wearing a ridiculously tall hat, starts spouting words of wisdom?
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