Age: approximately 215 years old
Address: The Crooked Tower
13 Thistleway, Mizzle Meadows

Likes:
– flying around the church’s steeple
– playing the Nettlewooz Memo Game
– the smell of raspberry cake
– the monthly issue of the Magic Circle

Dislikes:
– bright sunlight
– Bucklewhee sitting in his bed
– narrow preserving jars

Job: light-fingered witch (unlicensed)
Address: Plim’s Toy Shop, Treestump 1,
Weedy Way, The Dark Forest

Likes:
– her Racing Broom
beauty lotions
– stealing cutlery
– to play the Cauldron Tetris
– to have the final say
and – above all! – her handbag

Dislikes:
– cheeky toads
– breaking a fingernail
– her broom being out of order
– Primus’ antique chest

Job: wake-up bird
Address: the longcase clock in Primus’s attic
Distinguishing characteristics: state-approved and officially certified for accuracy

Likes:
sunflower seeds
– extensive wake-up-workouts
– training hours (weekdays from 2 – 3 PM)
– playing the Nettlewooz Quest
– intellectual discussions

Dislikes:
– hourglasses
– daylight saving
– falling off his clock cabinet while asleep

Job: Gourmet
Address: the compost pile below the old oak tree by the Crooked Tower

Distinguishing characteristics:
– knows about the chasm in the Dark Forest
– tans easily

Likes:
– having a lie-in
– searching for fruit in his ‘bed’
– cherry-stone spitting
– rolling down hills
– the Nettlewooz Sliding Puzzles

Dislikes:
– hobbling back up the hills again
– fruit flies

Job(s): unemployed scarecrow;
occasional clothes horse
Address: The Lettuce Patch behind Miss Plim’s house

Likes:
– high fashion
– making small talk
– psychoanalytic group therapy
– playing Nettlewooz Solitaire
– birdsong
– collecting buttons

Dislikes:
– rainy weather
– wet socks
– slugs in the lettuce

Description: vegetable which rambles incoherently. Mostly dormant.
Address: the shiny chest on Plim’s shelf

Distinguishing characteristic:
is supposed to have visionary capabilities

Likes:
– soft velvet cushions
– flute Music
– candlelight

Dislikes:
– wetness and fustiness
– being referred to as a potato
– rough dishcloths
– vegetable knives
– Miss Plim

Description: spindly creature with filthy, tattered clothes
Address: unknown

Distinguishing characteristic:
– visits Primus in his nightmares

Likes:
– unknown

Dislikes:
– unknown

Job: Courier and Scholar
Address: Chimney of the Mountain Inn

Distinguishing characteristics:
– knows the secret path to the Spindlewall

Likes:
– ancient scrolls
– solving Nieve’s Puzzle
– the smell of wood fires

Dislikes:
– vermin in his nest
– hailstorms
– lightning strikes

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