Fairy doors

[Oliver Buckle]

There is a sort of outcrop of rocks, about eighteen inches high with a crevice between them, it is just the sort of place fairies might come. The rocks would make good homes and there could be a discreet front door. I am wondering what it might look like though, fairies have magic to protect themselves, if they have oaken studded door it is just for preference. What sort of door do you think I should look out for? Something fairies might choose, something tells me they are coming.

 

[Sean Regan]

We had a fairy hedgehog door.

 

[Tetters]

There is a sort of outcrop of rocks, about eighteen inches high with a crevice between them, it is just the sort of place fairies might come. The rocks would make good homes and there could be a discreet front door. I am wondering what it might look like though, fairies have magic to protect themselves, if they have oaken studded door it is just for preference. What sort of door do you think I should look out for? Something fairies might choose, something tells me they are coming.

Don't tell anyone, but my fairies have always lived in my garden. Some of them live in an ivy covered tree stump just outside the french doors, and as it is a bit high up, I made a nice little ladder for them to use to get to the door. The door was made with wood and cut into an arched shape (they like to think of home as their castle) I made the door and ladder at the kitchen table with my set of tools. The nails went right through and perforated the table and are still there now. Fairies live very happily with the wrens who share the ivy cover.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I have always considered fairy doors just to be the entrance, the actual indoors may be somewhere else, a bit like Hal's moving castle. That's why if they are damaged by humans there is nothing behind them, you need magic to pass through.

 

[Tetters]

Well I already know that Oliver, and so do most of my friends who are still children. It's always the grown - ups I know who take no notice. Usually they just think they know everything, but actually they do not. Some of my more sensible young friends have actually seen the fairies come and go, and it is always the patient ones (more often girls) who are happy to sit quietly and wait. Fairies are not silly you know, they learn very quickly just who they can trust. I have actually seen some of the magic they perform in my own garden, and that usually happens when I am least expecting it.

Here's one of my photos. I know you can't see much detail, but I was very pleased to get a picture as clear as this....