Avril lived in the far, far north of a country known as Albion or sometimes perfidious Albion which wasn't very nice because perfidious means underhanded, treacherous, deceitful or even evil. Avril was only a little bit of any of these, like pretending she had no biscuits or chocolate sometimes so she wouldn't have to share the last piece with her friend Jan.

The biggest act of deceitfulness Avril did was when she was young and pretended that she was a boy. It started when she was a baby and learning to do the things that got her rewards like chocolate, not understanding that those were the things that would make people think she was a boy. Later she told herself that she carried on doing those things so that the other children wouldn't hate her for having fooled them but maybe too she hoped she would get more chocolate.

Over time, as is the way of the world, she got less and less chocolate for just acting like a boy but luckily she had by then learned ways she could buy her own chocolate. Also she and the other children had grown up and didn't pinch and bite and scratch and pull each others hair any more. Some of the other children had even grown up to not hate girls who had pretended to be boys! This made Avril decide it was time to stop pretending and let people see she was a girl but when she did try she found she wasn't a girl any more but a woman who had eaten too much chocolate over the years.

"Even if I have to give up chocolate and walk miles and miles for exercise I don't want to be perfidious any more" she swore which was a very big swear like a spell that she cast but a slow acting spell that took lots and lots of work to weave but weave it she did so that in time she became a proper witch called Avril who knew how to use the things she had learnt in order to help children with all sorts of problems.

Soon Avril had many new friends and even those who had known her when she was little came to enjoy the powerful witch she had grown into, though they must have wondered what her future would bring as they saw her soaring over the moorlands with her familiars, which she had to disguise as dogs.

The future arrived with a whoosh the day two young witches crashed into the coven where Avril worked her spells. These were not like most of the children Avril saw who didn't know yet even if they were to be witches. These two were different because they not only already knew they were witches but they refused to pretend to be anything else even if those who loved them them weren't sure and called them Victoria and Kate.

Because they were really witches Victoria and Kate could immediately see that Avril was a very powerful witch from whom they could learn so they insisted on calling her by her true witch name of Auntie Av and took a picture of her witches mark, a baby devil with a trident at the base of her spine, so that they could really know her no matter what disguise she wore.

Auntie Av did not get to be powerful with flash-bang type spells but with slow magic which dissolved the chains that had been holding Victoria and Kate to the ground but the day came when they could fly free and Auntie Av called call them by their proper names of Witch Hazel and the Bubble Witch.

Witch Hazel as the witches among you will realise had a talent for healing so she was often very busy learning new healing spells but Bubble Witch's talent was less apparent because when she spoke the air filled with the invisible bubbles of her words

One day, far away, a circle of warlocks in a land called Lone Star, had problems so huge that they begged Auntie Av to fly to them from Albion and work her magic spells. To travel so far Auntie Av asked the Bubble Witch to keep her company and so it was they flew together over the oceans where the mermaid witch Auntie Rhona swam and whom they knew from her witch mark of a butterfly over the waves.

"What is your magic Auntie Rhona?" the Bubble Witch called as she passed overhead "for it must be very powerful for you to survive so far from home',

"I have no magic of my own Bubble Witch, but I can see from afar the magic others weave even if they know it not themselves," Auntie Rhona replied.

In Lone Star Auntie Av began the casting of the runes with the warlocks which would determine the final spell she would cast on her return to Albion while the Bubble Witch was having fun with newly met visitors from a land called Nova Albion.

As the Bubble Witch laughed and spoke the air filled with her bubbles and the visitors fell under her spell for as Auntie Rhona could see from afar in the bubbles each could see themselves reflected as someone being loved and that is how Auntie Av found them so all together they went to a fabled grotto where they were anointed with potions, balms and unctions until all care and pain left their bodies and passing by way of the House of Blue they came upon Pete's Bar of the Duelling Pianos where best we leave them to cavort with Auntie Terpsikhore.