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The Presents Sent by Snow

The Presents Sent by Snow

At BlueSky school in Marbleglow, the capital city of the Skylands, it was the very last day of lessons before the Christmas holidays.

What normally happened was that you’d have a fun day at school where you just played games, and then the next day everyone would meet in Satinshine Park and exchange Christmas presents.

But this year, as Scarlett spent the last day of term with her friends Theo, Alex, Rene, Cyrano, Erwin and Elly she was both excited and sad at the same time. Sad, because she wouldn’t be able to go to Satinshine Park the next day and meet everyone, but excited because for this Christmas holiday she and her family were going to visit her Aunty Rachel all the way south in Horsmarlonerpool.

Dan's Plan For A Dam

Dan's Plan For A Dam


One of Dan’s favorite places to explore is Merrytime Stream, which turns off from the River Gurgleglug about half a mile west of Horsmarlonerpool, and then runs past Mr Harry’s watermill (where it pushes against the paddles which turns the big wheel and helps grind the corn or roll the paper or spin the thread) and then it continues through Alex’s pond and ends up in Bubbleyuk Swamp.

Merrytime Stream is fun because although it starts wide and fast enough to power a watermill, if you follow it inland it soon becomes narrow enough to jump over with a really big leap, and slow enough to stand in on a hot day - or sail big sticks in and pretend they’re ships.