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BUSY TIME IN THE DOLL’S ROOM
It was a busy time in the Doll’s Room, as there was great excitement.
Katie wondered why there was such a noise. The fairies were flying round
and round, talking to each other.
The head of the fairies said: ‘Don’t forget tomorrow, as we have an
audience with Her Majesty, our Queen, like Victoria is Queen of the
Dolls. Now come on, we must go to sleep.’ Fairies don’t need as much
sleep as humans, in fact very little. One fairy said to another: ‘Which
dress shall I wear?’ Victoria spoke up: ‘Can we help you?’ ‘I’m afraid
not,’ said the head fairy. ‘All the things we need are fastened to our
bodies in a tiny bag, but thank you.’ ‘O how magical,’ came the reply
from the dolls, looking at each other. ‘Katie, you fell asleep when the
news came,’ cried the dolls. ‘Did I?’ was the answer from Katie. Katie
was then told all about the summons to fairyland. The dolls did laugh
that Katie had not heard because she had been asleep.
‘Well,’ said Fanny, ‘I would just love a cup of tea.’ The dolls sitting
round the table agreed. Golly got up: ‘Can I have a cup of tea?’ ‘Why
yes,’ was the reply from Fanny. ‘You have a funny name,’ said Golly.
‘Well it’s a Victorian name, not in fashion now but I’m stuck with it.’
‘Well my name’s Golly but I don’t mind that.’ ‘Well,’ said a small
school girl, with a French accent. ‘My name’s Amie, do we all have
names?’ ‘Yes we do, it’s on my tag,’ replied Hilary, ‘from Pommsons,
priced 17/6d, plus my name.’ Very proud that she had a name plus a tag
to tell people about her. ‘I’m Floradora,’ said a doll on a stand, ‘but
mine is not on a tag, it’s printed on my neck.’ ‘Now come on,’ said the
head of all fairies. ‘It’s time for us to rest before we go. Have you
got everything?’ ‘Yes we have.’ So the dolls went rather quite. Before
the fairies set off the dolls also fell asleep.
Next day when they awoke the fairies had gone. ‘Well,’ said Sarah to her
big sister, ‘when will they come back?’ ‘I don’t know,’ replied
Victoria.
A week passed but no fairies came home. Weeks went by and without the
fairies the dolls were unable to move. They could only move when Helen
dusted them. Aloud, Helen said: ‘O it does look funny without my
fairies. Where did I put them?’ She looked very puzzled: ‘I must have
given them away.’ She searched everywhere for them but gave up in the
end and went downstairs to make dinner. There was a knock on the door.
Margaret, her daughter, stood there with her granddaughter, Hannah. ‘Hi
Gran, can I have a biscuit please?’ ‘Yes, if your mummy says so.’
Margaret nodded. ‘Would you like a cuppa, Margaret?’ ‘Yes, just a quick
one.’ So kettle on. Soon they all had a cup of tea, even Hannah. ‘Have
you had a nice day,’ asked Margaret? Helen replied: ‘Well I went
upstairs to give my dolls their yearly dust. Guess what, you know those
fairies that I have, well, I can’t find them anywhere.’ Hannah sprang to
the rescue: ‘I’ll find them Gran,’ racing up the stairs. Her gran
called: ‘Have you found them for me?’ ‘No, but I’m still looking.’
‘We’ll have to go now,’ said Margaret, ‘you could help Gran tomorrow.’
Hannah, looking serious, came down with a doll which had wings. ‘Is this
what you are looking for? It was hidden under your shelves.’ ‘O thank
you Hannah, I’m so grateful.’ Goodbyes were said and the door was shut
behind them.
Helen, full of joy, slowly climbed the stairs and went into the doll’s
room. She put the fairy on a pink cupboard. ‘Now do stand still for me.’
So having put her charge down she left the room and went downstairs.
As night time came and it became dark, Helen went to bed. The fairy
woke: ‘O I’ve missed an audience with Her Majesty,’ crying fairy tears.
Victoria spoke: ‘Could you loosen us up please?’ ‘Me too,’ said the
bride doll. ‘We have got so stiff.’ ‘Yes,’ said the tearful fairy, ‘but
I must go soon.’ ‘We know you must go to Fairyland.’ ‘It’s very, very
important for me to go, but I got lost here.’ Feeling sympathetic the
dolls answered: ‘Helen’s granddaughter found you.’ The cloth doll said:
‘You was under the shelves out of sight.’ So the fairy in the meantime
loosened the joints of all the dolls, so they could talk better, dance,
sing and dress up. The small ones played hide and seek, which cheered up
Katie, as she ran the little one’s clubs for baby dolls. Chad Valley got
all her cloth doll friends together, they decided to sew dresses. One
cloth doll made a tiny dress for the fairy that was left behind.
All the dolls were very happy, even big Amy, who had come into the
Doll’s Room with her cloth friends plus Cottontail the Rabbit, also all
the Mcdonald dolls. They really had a lovely time. Fanny and JDK helped
with teas and any other doll who could help did so. After all their
excitement they all stood where they usually stood, standing quietly as
daytime was coming.
Helen woke, had a wash and then dressed. She went into the Doll’s Room:
‘You look lovely. O how peaceful it is.’ Helen had a quick sit in her
easy chair. ‘Nice to see you,’ she said. ‘Nice to see you, Helen,’
replied the dolls. But being a human she didn’t hear them and shut the
door gently.
Four days went by and the fairy who had been left behind mounted a
cloud, wearing her little dress sewn by the cloth doll. The cloth doll
watched as she went on the cloud to Fairyland.
She was soon in Fairyland, as the cloud flew as quick as he could. She
did want to see Her Majesty. The cloud gently put her down saying;
‘Goodbye.’ There was a huge gathering. ‘O how am I to find my leader?’ A
fairy asked her where she came from. ‘I’m from Stokely,’ answered the
fairy. Her new friend picked up a fairy loud speaker. ‘Will the head
fairy from Stokely come to Fairy Stand Six.’ Nothing happened for a
moment, so the fairy from another place picked up the fairy speaker
again. After a few minutes the leader came. The fairy leader asked why
she was so late. ‘I got lost or I fell asleep in the Doll’s Room. It’s a
good job the cloud brought me. I had to help the dolls to loosen up. O,
I’ve given Victoria some fairy dust, so they can move.’ The fairy who
was left behind laughed: ‘O they did look funny not being able to move.’
‘Well,’ said the fairy leader, ‘we must go.’ ‘Do you mean home,’ asked
the fairy. ‘I’m only a day late?’ ‘No, tomorrow there’s to be a banquet
for a very special person at the fairy palace.’ During the evening an
announcement was made to all the fairies by Her Majesty the Fairy Queen.
All her fairy courtiers stood round her. Her fairies curtsied, the elves
did a deep bow. The fairy dragonfly, who lived in the palace, was a
scribe who wrote the Queen’s speeches. He handed over a fairy bag, the
Queen smiled, he then took the fairy letter and bowing handed it to her.
The smiling Queen commanded: ‘Sit in you places please. We have a very
special person for you to meet, Mr Micks.’ He came forward and bowed. He
and his wife turned round to face all the fairies. Those from the Doll’s
Room gasped in amazement. ‘You see he’s been here a long time,’ the
Queen said. ‘Not only is he celebrating his ninetieth birthday, Mr and
Mrs Micks are celebrating their Diamond Wedding too.’ Everyone cheered
at this. Clapping, they also sang the birthday song and said: ‘Happy
Anniversary,’ in their fairy voices. ‘Do you know,’ said a fairy from
the Doll’s Room, ‘I think I met him when I was a small fairy girl.’ ‘Do
tell us.’ ‘Not yet, when the banquet is over.’
After the banquet the large fairy band started to play. This was very
nice. First the Queen danced with her fairy husband. After the first few
steps they sat down. This was a sign that the other fairies could dance.
They did and had a lovely time.