the land of make-believe

ha!
i am most excited..
ever since i have left college and come back to live with my parents - i have shamelessly regressed into childhood .. ( no..that is not why i am excited !)
why is it that as soon as we start (restart?) living with our parents , even the most self-sufficient , independent and cocky of us turn into sullen teenagers, yelling from our beds, complaining loudly if our favourite meal isn't on the table , expecting our washing and ironing to be ready and being plain rude to everybody in sight.
or maybe it's just me??
whatever ..
anyway , all that is besides the point , the point being that, for whatever reason, i have regressed into childhood.
i have rediscovered (actually i had never really undiscovered it ) my obsession for children's books ..

i am constantly pawing the ground looking around for enid blyton books.. which in itself is most surprising..this is britain right? enid blyton was british right ? get the connection ? britain ..british..?
enid blyton books should be popping out of bookstores , flinging themselves at me from the shelves and basically being very annoying by gaping at me from every book shelf ..
sadly and very weirdly , it is not so..
despite my deeply concentrated efforts at tracking down these books , uptil yesterday i still hadn't found even a single tattered page of the adventures of binkie and flip. it was all taking on the qulaity of a very bad dream . you know, i think im in britain but actually i am in slovakia or such-like .

however, yesterday to my utter delight and disbelief , i found them!! ha! ( yes, that is why i am excited)
at the barnardo's charity shop , in a bundle of second hand books stacked outside the store ...
i was almost walking past it when i the words ' faraway tree' leapt out at me and conked me on the head ..
what ? what?
and guess what , i found the entire faraway tree series of enid blyton books. . ha!
i could not believe it.. i was looking for any enid blyton books ... any at all.. and to find my all time favourite books.. the beginnings of my overactive imagination .. the foundation stones for my fantasy world ... it was like being reunited with a lost limb ..
i probably read these books when i was six or seven but the fantasy has stuck with me throughout .

' the enchanted wood' , 'the magic faraway tree ' , 'the folk of the faraway tree' - all my favourite words .. yay!!
so i bought the books - though i did have to wrestle with an idignant four year old- really!
and am spending my time happily wrapped up in the cocoon of my younger years ... i am right there with jo, bessie and fanny as they discover the magic that is all around us.

really , i must mention this , isn't the concept of a tree on top of which different lands arrive , just simply so fantastic!!
i am currently in the land of take-what-you-want .. really delightful..
though the roundabout land and the land of dame slap weren't all that fun.. .
am waiting for the land of do-as-you-please and the land of presents.. mmmm

while on the subject of fairies ..
there is this particular movie i wish to see called 'photographing fairies' .. its about two young edwardian girls who appear to see and play with fairies.. and they have the photographs to prove it.. a photographer investigates and finds some very fascinating conclusions.

apparently it is loosely based on a real incident..
which makes me wonder.. maybe if you really really belive in it.. the magical world might actually reveal itself to you ? isn't that what it's all about ? faith .. ?
i have always been deeply fascinated by this concept..
even though im all for fantasy and pixies and what not ..
yet i probably dont believe in them enough .. coz for me they are just that, fantasies..beautiful and untouchable..and not real.
yet there is hope..
maybe one day i will finally believe and that is the day i will see a few fairies flitting around in my garden..
i know they're there.. i just can't see them!

p.s.if anybody has seen 'photographing fairies' ..please do review it for me !