Enchanted Wood: Legalised Littering?

Or fantasy fun?

My local wood, with a few additional embellishments by the local kids and some fairy folk. By author.

The kids all around the world have been off school. Here in the UK they stopped very suddenly on March 20th. There were a lot of very triumphant kids! Schools stayed open for a few children — the children of keyworkers and vulnerable children, but wasn’t normal school and very few kids went. In June a few children went back (the youngest and those who go to secondary school in September). A few of the older secondary kids have had some school time since June. Then they broke up for the Summer holidays around the 20th of July.

That’s a long-winded way of saying that most of the kids have been off school for 4 months. And they have needed occupying.

In the early days, there were lots of signs of kids being busy. Paintings of rainbows in house windows (some had so many paintings that I wonder if they ever had any daylight come in). Some strange thing involving teddy bears and numbers that I never really understood and messages in chalk on the footpaths and walls. It was quite cute. Some lovely interpretations of rainbows, one, in particular, stuck in my mind. It was a mixture of colours blending together until they created a mauve in the middle. Not a rainbow as such — the colours filled the whole page, but it was lovely in its own unique way. There was a note at the bottom that said “Please don’t judge my…