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‘I was about four-years old. We lived in the basement flat of a regency building in H____. My parents were caretakers. The building was the Church of England Diocese offices. It had been owned previously by a doctor. I was in the small scullery which overlooked the courtyard garden at the back of the building. I had always known the faeries but this one day with the window open to the courtyard garden two small people, no wings, came in through the window and sat with me while I was playing with plasticine clay. My mum was working somewhere outside the room. These two little people were dressed in colours that you cannot even imagine. They sat with me and watched me, and we did speak to each other. But I can’t remember now what we said. They stayed with me and remained in my life for a couple of years. I even carried them to school in my bag and left the bag open on the windowsill of the classroom for them. My teacher understood as did other people around me. My mum refused to believe me. The house itself was full of ghosts and I was always seeing things and was scared a lot of the time, but the faeries never scared me. They were beautiful. They loved the overgrown garden. We moved when I was seven to a new house, and I stopped telling people that I could see them. These two little people never showed themselves again. I still feel them around me today and I live in Wales now on a beautiful smallholding surrounded by a magical ancient woodland and although I haven’t seen them, I can feel them here and it [is] why we bought this property.’ ‘Small colourful people. Child-like but not in proportion to children.’ Fairies are ‘elemental beings’.