Illustrations by John Gorman
Welcome to Grimley Feendish!!
Abigail Grimley is a lonely young girl who has recently moved to a rather curious old charity shop called ‘Weird and Wonderful’, on Freak Street, in Odd Town. She lives there in her new ‘home’ with her Mum whose parents, Grandpa and Grandma Grimley, have owned the shop for many years. The skies are purple and the moon is often brighter than the sun and the grass is blue in Oddtown, but that’s not important to Abigail. What is important is that she is always getting blamed for the depletion of choccy biscuits in the fridge!! Not only is she the new girl at school and in the neighbourhood, but now even her relatives are accusing her of creeping downstairs in the middle of the night and raiding the fridge for lovely cold chocolate biscuits, which she simply is not doing; well at least not recently! Abigail takes her role as a “wee devil”, as her Gran keeps calling her, quite seriously and has taken to wearing a red devil outfit (complete with forked tail) that someone had left in the charity shop. Lots of weird and wonderful things are left in the shop by wellwishers, not least a large, black, slightly furry umbrella left by a very old lady one Saturday afternoon. In fact the very same Saturday that these biscuits had started to go missing during the night, hmm... Abigail wakes one night and creeps downstairs, the light from the open fridge door casts long shadows across the kitchen, it also illuminates a large black apparition in the shape of a hare, it’s mouth instantly stops scoffing the lovely cold biscuits from the fridge. “A-HA!! Caught you!” hisses Abigail at the black hare, who turns to her, smiling with his teeth full of choccy bics bits. “Hello, er, young lady; let me introduce myself. I am Feendish.” Says the hare. “You can say that again!" snorts Abigail, "You’re worse than fiendish, you’re not very nice at all, eating other people’s biscuits!” adds Abigail indignantly; at least she would if she knew what it meant, so she says it quite ‘huffily puffily actually’, as she would no doubt insist on telling you!
