At Lydney: Being a man.....

The forest is an amazing stage for all sorts of make believe plays. As we walked under the trees, the boys ran ahead looking for inspiration. Beau knocked on a fairy house door at the base of a tall pine tree. I smiled. He whispered a message through the door. He would. He had two baby teeth removed today at the dentist. The offending articles had become sorely embedded in his gum. The dentist, dressed in pink, ( a sign of being connected to the fairy brigade, I told Beau) caused a silent tear to run down his cheek.

Sam stood guard with Eva at the fairies door. Explaining, reinforcing the story Beaus message. Sam, gave the tree and whichever ground, tree or tooth fairy precise instructions on how to get to our house. How to mind the cat, which might confuse the fairy for a daddy long legs....

Never has collecting a tooth or a couple of teeth been so complicated!