The Fluffy's
By Johnny Day

Chapter one. The Man Who Sells The Clouds

Have you ever wondered why, some days the sun would be shining very brightly with not a cloud to be seen in the sky, and then on another day it never shines at all or at least not very brightly and the sky would be full of clouds? Well, if you are sitting comfortably I will tell you why.

High high above the clouds, living on sunbeams and rainbows, in a village called Fluffy-land, live the Fluffy's, they are a friendly fun loving, hardworking little people, they all live in fluffy houses that look like blue clouds, that’s why we can’t see them, because the houses are the same colour as the sky. The Fluffy's love to eat vegetables and fruit of all kinds, carrots, and cabbage, cherries and cauliflowers, potatoes, pears, and peas as well as peaches parsnips and plums, in fact, all kinds of fruit and vegetables.



Each day early in the morning the Fluffy's would leave fluffy-land to climb the long stairway to the sun, each of them with a little fluffy duster to polish it with, they would polish it till it shone brightly, to make the flowers and vegetables grow, and when they had finished, the man in the sun would pay them for their hard work.

In the evening when the sun went to sleep and the stars come out, sometimes they would play catch-a-star, throwing the stars to each other but if they missed a catch, the star would fall to earth leaving a trail behind it,

If you look carefully sometimes you can see a falling star, then you know that the Fluffy's are playing. Often they would play all night so the next day when they came to polish the sun, they would fall asleep because they had played for so long they were very very tired and didn’t make a very good job of polishing it, then the sun wouldn’t shine so much that day.


All the houses in Fluffy-land are very tidy with little gardens in the front and back, the Fluffy's love to grow flowers and vegetables of all kinds, they grew the flowers in the front and all the lovely vegetables in the back, but they had one very big problem, because they live so far above the clouds they would get lots and lots of lovely sunshine but no rain, and as you know all flowers and vegetables need the rain as well as the sun to be able to grow.


So each day with the money they earned polishing the sun, the Fluffy's would take their watering cans down to the man who lives in the clouds to buy some water, he would fill each can, full of clouds filled with water for the Fluffy's to take back to their gardens in fluffy-land, but the man who sells clouds is a very grumpy old man, and if the fluffy's had not made a very good job of polishing the sun that day, he would get very angry,

He would turn the clouds black and empty them of water so that it falls to the ground, leaving none for the Fluffy's. So now when the sun is shining brightly and there are not many clouds in the sky you will know why, the man who sells the clouds has sold them all to the Fluffy's to water their gardens, but if the sun is not shining and there are lots and lots of clouds in the sky watch out, because the man who sells the clouds might just get angry and empty them on you.

Chapter two. 

The Man Who paints the sky

It was a dull day in Fluffy land and everybody was feeling a bit sad, the Fluffy's liked the days to be bright and cheery, but today the day just seemed to get everybody down, nobody seemed to want to go and polish the sun in fact a few of the little Fluffy's were so sad they began to cry, causing little-scattered showers all over, yes today was not a very nice day.

I was decided that some of the head Fluffy's would go to see King Fluffy to ask what could be done about it, he thought and then he thought again until at last he cried “I have it! We will go and see the man who paints the sky and ask him if he can make it a little brighter”

All the Fluffy's were so excited they jumped up and down with joy, “Yes that is what we will do, we will ask the man who paints the sky” And so, off they all went to find him, “Oh please Mr Painter, we are so upset and sad, because it's so dull everywhere, can't you make it a little brighter?”


“I will get my paint and see what I can do” he said, and off he went to get all his paint's, he had blue and yellow paint some white and grey paint, a little black paint not forgetting some red, in fact he took all his colours.

He put all the paint in a big wheelbarrow and off he and all the other fluffy went to try and make the sky look a little brighter. First he opened a big can of blue paint and began to paint the sky, “can we please help you” said the Fluffy's. “ OK. but be careful not to spill any paint said the Paint man. And try not to mix them as you will make a different colour.

Now all the Fluffy's grabbed a paint brush and started to paint the sky blue, “Remember to leave some gaps” the Paint man said “ We can’t have it all blue, I only do that on special days” “What colour will you put in the gaps” asked one of the Fluffy's “It might be white, or I might put in some add some grey, I haven't made up my mind yet, I might even mix up some colours to make new one's”

“Oh let's have some red as well” the Fluffy's all shouted “ We will help you, we will help you” and began to open all the tins of paint. “Wait,” said the Paint man “You will get all the colours mixed up” in the confusion, the paint pots began to spill over into the wheelbarrow.

The man who paints the sky grabbed the wheelbarrow to steady it, but it was too late, all the paint tipped out and began to run into the sky. “Now look what you made me do,” said the Paint man. “Oh we are so sorry, please don't be angry, we only meant to help you”

 “It's OK” he said “as he put his extra-large brush onto the spill, and with one sweep he went from the bottom of the sky, all the way up and then down again to another place. “Oh look!” said the Fluffy's and all began to jump with joy.

So now the next time we have a few little showers and the sun starts to shine, you will know just how rainbows are made.
© 2011 johnnydod

Chapter three. 

The day the "Wind Man" lost his machine

One day in Fluffy-land just as the fluffy's where climbing the fluffy stairs to polish the sun they were stopped by a strange man with what looked like a clockwork key in his hand. “Have you seen a large machine with a huge fan on it at in your travels,” he asked? The Fluffy's all looked puzzled at each other and shook their heads

 “No, we haven’t seen anything like that.” they said, “What's if for” “I am the wind man” the strange man said “and I have lost my wind machine”

“We will help you try and find it” all the Fuffy's said, so off they all went in search in the wind man's wind machine, they looked high and low, but there were so many clouds that day, it seemed a hopeless task, one of them even went down to the man who sells the clouds to ask him, but he didn’t know, and told him to "go and get on with his work of polishing the sun", no one seemed to know where the wind machine had disappeared to.

That evening just as one of the fluffy's were tucking up their little ones for bedtime, Freddy and Fiona, Freddy Fluffy the younger of the two asked

 “Can we go and play on the cloud swing tomorrow Mummy” “Of course you can?” Mummy said, “I didn't even know we had a cloud swing, where is it”? “It’s behind the moon Mummy” “Well I had better go with you tomorrow just to make sure it’s safe for you to play on,” Mummy said. “It’s a long way to the moon".

A trip to the moon 

The next Morning Mummy Fluffy went with Freddy and Fiona fluffy to see the cloud swing, higher and higher they went up to the moon and around to the other side, and sure enough, there it was, a large swing with lots of Fluffy children swinging on it, and there sitting on another cloud was a large machine with a huge fan with one on the Fluffy's switching it on and off to make the cloud swing backwards and forwards.

 "Hahaha" laughed Mummy fluffy “so that's where the wind man's machine has been hiding, off she went to tell the wind man and they all laughed. “Well I suppose it won’t hurt to let them play on it just for today,” he said, “but I had better have it back tomorrow for it will need to be rewound again. I have to go down to Earth it's autumn now and I have to blow all the leaves away

 © 2011 johnnydod

Chapter Four. 

The Visitor in the night

It was a cold night in Fluffy-land, the head Fluffy had made up the fire in the front room and was just about to tuck himself up for the night when he heard a very loud knock on the door,

“Who can that be this time of the night”? He muttered to himself, he straightened his nightcap and made his way to the front door, “Who is it”? He shouted.
“It's me” came a muffled cry from the outside

“Who's Me”? The head Fluffy asked
“Why! Me” the voice answered
“Yes, but what's your name”? The head Fluffy asked
“Oh! Father Christmas” Came the reply

Father Christmas asks a favour.

With that, the head Fluffy unlocked the door and swung it wide open, there stood a tall man dressed all in red, his hat was red with a pure white trim on it, as was his long coat, he had a great big bushy white beard, “Father Christmas, what a lovely surprise, please, do come in.
“Thank you head Fluffy, it's cold out there and you have a lovely roaring fire going, do you mind if I warm myself in front of it”?

“Of course not” the head fluffy said," make yourself at home" Father Christmas took off his white gloves and held his hands out in front of the fire “Mmm” he said “That's better”
Father Christmas turned to the head Fluffy and said “I have come to ask you a favour”
“Anything for you Father Christmas”


“Ho ho oh,” Father Christmas said, "that's good, I wonder if you could make it snow for me? as my reindeer are finding it hard to pull my sledge, and seeing as it's Christmas eve I thought not only would, to make it easier for my boys to pull the sledge, but the snow would look nice for all the girls and boys on Christmas morning”

“Just wait till I get dressed and then I will take you to the Fluffy Snowman, he will help you”
So the two of them set off to find the fluffy snowman, It wasn't long before they found him, he was a little different from a normal snowman, he looked almost the same but when you got closer to him you could see he was all fluffy, with a Fluffy red nose and a Fluffy red scarf.

“Hello Mr Snowman.” the head Fluffy said, “could you make it snow for Father Christmas please”?
“Of course I can,” Fluffy Snowman said “But you will have to help me with my machine”
And there in another room was a large machine with a great big funnel on the top.

Keep an eye out for Snow

“First we have to cut out some ice for the machine” Fluffy Snowman said “And then you will have to help me turn the handle, it's very stiff because I haven’t used it for nearly a year now, I will get my friends the penguins to help collect the ice"

The three of them along with the help of the penguins, started to cut up large lumps of ice to put in the snow machine, when it was quite full the head Fluffy and Father Christmas helped Fluffy Snowman to pull the machine out into the open, and then they all started to turn the handle.

“Wow it is stiff “cried Father Christmas, but he was a big strong man (He had to be, to carry all those toys) and soon little snowflakes floated out of the other end of the snow machine and made their way down to earth.
“Ho Ho Ho Thank you very much” Father Christmas boomed out and held both his hands on his tummy
“Now My reindeer will find it easier to pull my sledge and in the morning it will be all white on the ground.

So remember boys and girls if it starts to snow on Christmas Eve, you will know it won’t be long before Father Christmas makes his call.

Happy Christmas everyone, from all the Fluffy’s in Fluffy-land, and of course Father Christmas.