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Monday 25 November 2019

Spot the Frippet: fairy.

They say that the bottom of the garden is the easiest place to see a fairy, or, if you have no garden, then try the loneliest crossroads you can find. I'm not saying it'll be easy (or possible) but that's what people say.

On the other hand, you can always blow the fairies from a dandelion clock:

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photo by Vicente Villamón 

or there is bound to be a fairy cycle:

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photo by Keanu @ no:wp

a fairy ring:

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photo by Aviddoghug 

or (in Australia) some fairy floss:

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photo by FocalPoint

near you.

Fairy penguins, shrimps and swallows will probably be further away (though, please note, the fairy swallow is not actually a swallow, but a pigeon):

File:Fairy Swallow (Wing Pigeon).jpg

Easiest of all, there are (or very soon will be) fairy lights everywhere:

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photo by Sardaka

Even so, there's nothing quite as good as the real thing, which in Britain at least can be seen in the form of Fairy Godmothers at the Pantomime in theatres across the land:

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If all fails, make a wish.

Well, you never know...

Spot the Frippet: fairy. This word comes from the Old French faerie, which means fairyland, from feie, fairy, from the Latin Fāta, the fates.





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