He didn't stay long and went off to his Forever Home pretty quickly.
Shortly after we found another strange character under the roots of the Medlar Tree.
He is apparently a distant cousin of Pirate Pink and thought he'd just drop in and say hello.
Fudge our little juggling hare - yes we know, it sounds rather like' jugged hare' but we DON'T mention things like that here in this garden....we are all of us vegetarian < ahem>, says that he has met Mandrake the Magician before on one of the lessons he's been on.
Fudge says that when he saw him on the How to be a Fire-eater" course, Mandrake was simply called Willow the Wizard.
Hmmm...doesn't sound quite as impressive or scary as Mandrake the Magician does it?
But Mandrake it is...
Mandrake tells us that he can make magic potions to turn cats into stones. ( Of course mice don't like cats very much.)
He says that, with a wave of his magic staff, he can make mousetraps turn to jelly - oh how we needed him the other day when Wensleydale decided to visit next door's shed.
And he says that with a few magic words, he can make the tyres on the Rentokill van have multiple punctures! And he can, with a word and a pass over his magic obsidian ball, turn Sparrowhawks into pigs.
He hasn't convinced us so far. All he's managed to do to date is eat all the food we have put out for the birds in this cold weather! Maybe he needs to be full up to work any magic.
However, come to think of it, since Mandrake arrived and Wensleydale trapped next door's cat's tail in the mousetrap, I haven't seen him. The cat that is....Hmmm.
Nor have I seen the Sparrowhawk for a while...
However, I have seen a flying pig! :)
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