BEWARE CREEPS FROM THE DEEP!!!

That sign marks the start of the road to our place. The deep refers to the deep forest where we live.

Once we lived in town until great grandmother had a dispute with the Wicked Witch over the supply of Exuberance essence. Seems the Wicked Witch wanted more than grandmother was prepared to deliver as it is a very potent essence and in the wrong hands, primarily the Wicked Witches it could be lethal to all concerned.

The result was the creep spell she cast on our family. It’s our scaly skin and pusulating pores and I am told pungent odour that have placed us in the persona non grata category of society.

Even so we still carry on our business the same one which got us into this spot of bother, sorry about the pun.

We are magic herbalists. We are in great demand and we bring a lot of secondary business to the local community.

From a back room in which my grandmother then my mother brewed the potions to cure a myriad of ailments we have grown to have now a very attractive service area, a shop if you like displaying the wares, the potions, the spells in a well, a novelty item my dad thought of to attract children as the spells you can draw from the well are all fairly non life changing.

We are in ourselves quite a curiosity to all who visit us. Recently we were awarded our own genus type, Creepus Deepus.

We were not so taken by the formality of that title but as mum said after they could have labelled us Hideous Sightus.

At least Creepus Deepus does have something you can work with and its since become the brand name we apply all our products.

Our newest product is one we have kept for ourselves, an Illusion potion, a capful each morning and in no time we could be mistaken for film stars. It has ensured a much more regular trade, prior to the Illusion Potion it would be normal for one member of a family to enter the shop and then relate the experience to their family rather than risk the possibility of traumatising the entire family.

Weekends we do a roaring trade, busloads turn up at our doors, we run tours of the place which dad loves doing though he does take a bit of effort to clean up despite the Illusion Potions best efforts but he scrubs up well enough to run the tours as opposed to the tourists running from him.

He loves the banter with the good people who drop by, dad is a born salesman, as we say he could sell ice to Eskimos plus he gets on occasion to test out some new potion he has been working on to a visitor willing to try a dab of this cream on a particular sore they may have on them just to see what might happen when its applied.

He has achieved some fascinating results. One small rotund man had some of dad’s Creepus Deepus Thinning Lotion applied to his head and it worked a treat on the mans head reducing it to half the size it was when he arrived. We all had a good laugh about it, that’s the thing with trial and error dad said after there’s often more error than trial but in the end all was good the man was happy to take away a free Creepus Deepus baseball cap, in the smallest size I must add.

The business has expanded to an online service now giving new meaning to the saying ‘Your products are winging their way to you.’ Mum’s Fairy Wing Potion has found a new application and she is thrilled with that, as it has saved a lot in postage.

I must say though that the fairy potions are always popular, every Friday dad and mum brew up a fresh batch in readiness for the influx of would be fairies on the weekend. Not everyone is cut out to be a fairy, the potion only works on a few which is a good thing as we’d probably be out of business plus there’d be fairies everywhere and where would be the magic in that?

By Sunday evening we are all in a state of exhaustion. The till is usually full and we are in need of a good lancing all over and a good lie down with a few hot poultices placed strategically.

It is good of a Sunday night to look at each other as we really are, and give thanks it could always be worse.

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