Did you know that the world is full of fairies?
 Every country has their own fairies. How they are born depends on what country they are from. On Independence Day, American fairies spring from the sparkles of fireworks. The Japanese fairies come from the mist that appears on the peak of Mount Fuji.  And in France, a tiny droplet appears in an empty snail shell that grows into a fairy. Here in England, our fairies come from a process called Fairy Bakes. Would you like to know about how an English fairy is born?
 Every time you bite into a cake, you make crumbs. Well, ‘crumbs’ is a word that only human beings use. In the Fairy Kingdom, a ‘crumb’ is really a Fairy Flake. Every Fairy Flake is collected by a special fairy called a Sweeper. This is a very important job – like a doctor, or a school teacher, or a creative writer in the human being world – and Sweepers are very well loved and respected in the Fairy Kingdom. They have the power to become invisible, and they daily collect all of the Fairy Flakes from the pavements, and the houses and the shops all over England.
 The Sweeper takes the Fairy Flakes to the Fairy Bakery, which is situated in the sky above the North West of England, over a city called Manchester. On a sunny day with blue skies, you may not see any clouds, but in Manchester there is always one big cloud in the sky. This is actually not a real cloud, but the Fairy Bakery.
 And did you know that ‘clouds’ is another human being word? The fairy kingdom call them ‘floss’ because really, that is what ‘clouds’ are – big fluffy balls of candy floss. When we notice the clouds disappear, that is because the fairies have eaten all of the candy floss. It is their staple food, like human beings have potatoes and bread. The Fliss-Flossers who plough through the Floss fields create more candy floss, and this too, is a very important job in the fairy kingdom. They work very hard, sometimes a little too hard because England can get very cloudy sometimes.  
 Anyway, back to the process of Fairy Bakes. So, the Sweepers have taken the Fairy Flakes to the Fairy Bakery, haven’t they?  Every single collected Fairy Flake is poured into the huge Twinkle Dust Pond on the ground floor. Twinkle Dust is alive and gives the Fairy Flakes life, twinkling around making Sparkles. The Sparkles are like electrical zooms that dive into each Fairy Flake and find out what cake they are from so that they can be filtered through the Twinkle Tubes and sent to the right Fairy Family.
 Fairy Flakes from biscuits become fairies in the Gingerbread Family. Iced buns shed Fairy Flakes that become Snow Fairies, but in the last one hundred years, iced buns have become less popular in England and that is why human beings do not see very much snow here. (Strangely enough, a few weeks ago, a little human being girl from Birmingham had a birthday party with two hundred of her favourite cakes – iced buns – on the table. So many new Snow Fairies were born that week that it caused so much snow in England that human beings could not go to work or school for two whole days!). And the Royal Fairies are those who have completed Fairy Bakes through Fairy Flakes from fairy cakes. Because fairy cakes are still so popular in England, there are many Fairy Prince and Princesses who are loved and take good care of the Fairy Kingdom.
 Once the Fairy Flakes have scattered down the correct Twinkle Tube to their Fairy Family, they are baked in the Mystical Wave for sixty-six hours. Each Fairy Family has their own Mystical Wave. The Chocolate Fairy Family’s is a big bowl of hot chocolate which needs topping up with cream, and marshmallow, and hot fudge every sixty-six minutes. A bell will ring-a-ding-ding once the sixty-six hours are up, and a baby fairy – known as a Bud – will appear.
 A lady fairy is sent from each Fairy Family to collect their new Buds and take them to their English home. Fairies live all over the place, in trees, in cobwebs, in flower petals, or even in the sugar bowl in your kitchen! The lady fairy will put their Bud onto their back and fly them home.
Each Fairy Family has to teach their Bud how to learn to fly with their own two wings. When they have learnt to fly with their own two wings, the Bud is awarded with a fairy wand and a real fairy name such as Tootsie Buster, Pickle Punch or Funky Stuff. They are taught to follow their feelings and always do what they believe in, not what others make them think that they should do. If a fairy wants to become a Star Polisher – which is an excellent job, one that can take a fairy travelling to other countries – they must feel it deep within. If a fairy wants to stay in their apple core house and make sticky toffee for their Buds all day and they feel that this is right, then that is absolutely fine and dandy, too.
But you must know that sometimes, other sorts of Flakes can get into Fairy Flakes. It has been known that a poppy seed, or a broken walnut, or a fleck of pastry has sneaked into the Fairy Flakes. In the Twinkle Dust Pond, these sneaky Flakes are sent down the Pixie Twinkle Tube, where the Trixie Fix process begins of making pixies. These little creatures can be mischievous little rebels, but they do create wonderful artwork and rock’n'roll. But the stories about the pixies is another one altogether, and for now stay happy, peaceful and magical as the fairy kingdom helps to send you fast asleep to that other world for human beings, called Dreams.