Hello Loopie Fans,

Its been so long since I’ve been able to update the site, for two reasons, I’ve been suffering from severe “writer’s block” and I’ve been illustrating “Story 3 – Wusky’s Undersea Discovery” for the audio story book we are busy making for that story. I’m so excited and can’t wait to see it go live on the site!

I’m also happy because my writer’s block has finally lifted and I have these great stories and characters coming soon….

The Milkshake Monster, The Fumigator, The Waffle-o, Webster the Lying Spider, The Time Machine, Sir Edmund’s Speed Bumps, The Nanny Goat, The New Tatoo, Eagle-eye and the Gagoons to name a few.

I sometimes get so frustrated with my writing process, sometimes it takes a few months to write a story and then other times they flow from my pen, at least you can be rest assured, whether stubborn or easy stories – which ever way they choose to present themselves to me – you will still get them hot off the press. Or in this case before you can say “Awk-coo-coo!”

We’re also going to be redesigning the website as well so you can look forward to the “New Look Loopie World” There is so much more in the pipeline – I wish it could all happen at break neck speed. But I have learnt that even though we live in an instant world, some things just can’t be rushed.

I’m in the process of discovering some awesomely talented people to help me with the Loopie World Audio Stories. Please feel free to get in touch with me via the contact form on the Contact page if you would like to know more about the Audio Story process or to perhaps even audition for the voices of the characters. The site has stagnated a little due to this process, but I think it will be well worth it in the end. I have decided not to add stories every month as perviously said on the site, but rather once I have some amazing stories to add I will add them and keep our Free Story Subscribers posted whenever a new story is published on the site. I find this process is easier on my creativity and doesn’t feel like I’m “forcing cheese through a fork”. I would rather Loopie World be a place of quality stories rather than thousands of stories that are no good. I do apologise for thinking I could ever create something that huge all on my own. I suppose that’s how we learn and grow in life, by making mistakes.

“It’s so unsightly!” wailed Dot to her husband Mayor Piney.

Dot was a drama queen! Anything could set her off into an absolute frenzy! This time it was a tiny hair on her chin that had grown a little out of control. It was black and a little curly.

“I just have to get it seen to!” she wailed all the more, until Mayor Piney – not being able to bear much more of her nagging – fished out a wad of money from his wallet and gave it to her.

“Would this be enough for a visit to the Parlor dear?” he asked gingerly.

All Dot’s wailing had turned into insecent “thank-you’s” and joyful smiles as she grabbed the money and left the house for Leechie’s Beauty Parlour.

Leechie was the Beauty Therapist of Acersville. She owned the posh beauty Salon on High Street. Anybody who was anybody could be seen being pampered through the shiny windows.  From perms to pedicures – Leechie did it all!

Dot burst through the Parlour door.

“I need immediate attention!” she exclaimed in her most important Mayor’s Wife voice.

Leechie smiled and whisked happily over to Dot to jot her name in the appointment book.

“And how can we help you today?” asked Leechie with a smile.

“It’s this!” said Dot as she pointed severely to the curly black hair growing from her chin.

“Ah, step right this way.” motioned Leechie, as she led Dot to the waxing room.

Leechie propped Dot up in a chair and set to warming the wax. She set it to a low temperature.

“I’ll be back in a moment.” She said to Dot, as she slipped out of the room, closing the door behind her.

Dot got up from her chair and waddled over to a nearby mirror, to inspect the hair on her chin again.

She gave a big sigh as she looked over at the wax pot.

“It’s not even hot yet!” she was getting cross.

Then a very sly thought crossed her mind. She tiptoed gently over to the wax pot and cranked up the heat to the highest it would go. Then smiling to herself, she waddled back to her chair where Leechie had left her moments ago.

She looked happily over to the wax pot that now was beginning to shake and rattle on the heat Dot had set it to. Dot was very proud of herself!

Plop.

A dollop of hot wax plopped out of the pot and onto Dot’s arm. Dot grimaced.

“Ouch.” She said softly.

Plop. Another dollop of wax spluttered from the pot, straight onto Dot’s head! She starred in horror as the little wax pot began to splat and splutter wax all over the room!

Dot flew off of her chair and used it as a shield against the raining wax drops.

Plop! More wax shot at Dot from the little pot. Dot began screaming hysterically!

“Help! Help! It’s out of control!” Dot wailed loudly.

Leechie rushed back into the room and straight into a shower of hot wax! Dot rushed to Leechie’s aid and was pelted with more wax. The Loopies ran out of the room, and quickly shut the door.

“What did you do?” asked the astonished Leechie.

Dot grinned sheepishly. Leechie wasn’t impressed.

“So how do we get this wax off ourselves?” asked Dot gingerly.

“We pull it off.” Leechie replied, now it was Leechie’s turn to grin.

Dot gulped, she knew it would hurt.

After an hour or so of pulling, yelping and screaming a rather patchy Dot emerged from one of the beauty rooms. She looked at herself in a nearby mirror and yelled at the top of her voice!

“I look terrible!” she cried.

Leechie had to pull the wax off of Dot and where the wax had been were now fresh patches of soft skin – her fur no longer there!

“I look like a patch-work blanket!” she whined. How do I get back to normal?

Leechie tried not to giggle.

“Your fur will grow back.” She said, with a reassuring smile.

Dot burst into tears and hurried off in the direction of Dr Smookles’ Consulting Rooms.

Dr Smookles was the medic of Acersville. He was a dentist, doctor and vet. He could solve just about any medical problem and Dot was hoping, could attend to hair loss issues as well!

“My dear! How’s the Mayor doing?” asked Dr Smookles gently, pretending not to notice Dot’s acute problem of patchy fur.

Dot drove straight to the point.

“Can you help me with this hair loss issue or not?” she asked crossly.

“They say it happens with age.” replied Dr Smookles.

Dot almost blew a gasket! “I need my fur back! What-ever happened to ‘take two pills and call me in the morning’? ” asked Dot quite exasperated by now.

Dr Smookles looked round his room, to make sure they were alone.

“Now,” he began as he walked cautiously to the drawer behind his desk. “If you take two of these pills, every day, your hair should be back to normal by the end of the week.” He said with a grin as he handed her a small container of red pills that he had fished from the drawer.

Dot thanked the doctor and hurriedly set off home before anybody she knew recognized her. She spent the rest of the day in the bathroom and refused to come out for dinner. Mayor Piney soon grew tired of begging Dot to come out of the bathroom and fell asleep on the bed. Dot threw the entire container of pills down her throat, burst out of the bathroom and leapt into bed and slept soundly as usual.

The next morning, Dot awoke to the sounds of Mayor Piney screaming.

“What on earth is the matter?” asked Dot.

“You! You look like a werewolf!” he shouted handing her a mirror.

Sure enough, as Piney had said, Dot looked just like a werewolf; she had hair cascading out of everywhere! She really did look a sight!

“We’re going to have to get the lawnmower to trim the Rapunzel right out of you!” he declared.

Dot burst into tears! “All this because of one silly hair!” she sobbed.

“Now now dear, it’s nothing the garden shears can’t fix.” said Piney trying to comfort his wife.

She wailed all the more. And then stopped and looked at her husband and his thinning hair. Just then, she had an idea!

“Get those garden shears Piney my dear; we’re going to need all the hair we can get!”

Dot then spent the rest of the day weaving the hair they had cut from her head into highly fashionable wigs! Mayor Piney tried on a few and thought he looked rather dashing in them!

Dot then began to sell the wigs in Leechie’s salon and made quite a bit of money out of it!

I must say, Dot’s hair can’t grow quick enough now with all the orders she gets for her beautiful wigs.

Dot learnt a valuable lesson: you can make the most of any situation, no matter how hairy it is!

Air Loopie has just baked a fresh batch of chocolate biscuits and had placed them neatly on the window ledge to cool. Air Loopie was an Air Glider and lived high on top of Mount Peakmore in the Great Loopie’s house. The high cliffs always had good winds, so his biscuits would be cool in no time! He smiled as he scurried off to wash the dishes. But when he came back to inspect his baking – the biscuits were gone!

“Well this is horrible!” he exclaimed.

Who could have taken the biscuits? Air ran outside looking for clues and all he found was a smudged chocolaty paw print on a nearby rock and some crumbs!

“The thief ate my biscuits!” Air said out loud in disbelief.

Who would have done such a thing? To an Air Glider! The most noble of all the Loopies – the protectors of the Great Loopie’s magic. Something had to be done about this!

Air grabbed his air glider board and glided down the mountain side. He landed gently on the ground and headed straight for the post office!

Now the Post office might sound like a strange place to go in a case like this! But George the post master was the best person to call when detective work needed to be done! He was good at finding lost post; so lost goodies and criminals were no match for him!

The little bell on the Post Office door tinkled in delight as Air burst through the doors.

“Hello Air!” smiled George.

“No packages for the Great Loopie today I’m afraid.” he announced.

“Oh, thanks George, but I’m not here for packages today.” Air said in a hurry.

“I have a case for you … the case of the missing biscuits.” He whispered.

George’s ears pricked up, he grinned and grabbed his magnifying glass and off they set, climbing the mountain, looking for clues.

George stopped, sniffed the air and then sneezed.

“Very interesting!” he scribbled down some notes in his note book.

“Did you find a clue?” asked Air, very interested to see how George did detecting.

“Yes, I did!” replied George.

“What is it?” asked Air.

“A sneeze!” he declared.

“A sneeze?” Air was puzzled.

“How can a sneeze be a clue?”

“Well it is a clue if cats make you sneeze!” George explained.

“So you think a cat took my biscuits?” asked Air in disbelief.

“Well let’s just say Linky will be on our questioning list!” said George as he adjusted his belt, looking very pleased with himself.

“And the paw print?” asked Air motioning George to have a look at the smudged print he had found earlier.

George took a swab of the smudged chocolate paw print and found a ginger hair!

“Ah-ha!” said George with delight!

Things weren’t looking good for Linky at all! Linky was Granny’s ginger cat and the only cat in Acresville. George smiled, he thought he had cracked the case and stomped off in the direction of Granny’s house, with Air close behind him.

Granny smiled and welcomed them in, but her face soon fell when she found out the reason for George’s visit.

“Linky! Not in a million years! Not my Linky!” she protested, defending her ginger cat, as she shoed George and Air out of the house and slammed the door behind them.

“What do we do now?” asked Air.

“We know its Linky! We can prove it! You have a ginger hair and you sneezed! It has to be Linky! There are no other ginger cats in Acresville, are there?” said Air, quite exasperated.

“Well then, we’ll just have to catch Linky red handed!” replied George.

“How will we do that?” asked Air.

“With Spoof’s help!” he answered.

Spoof was the quiet reserved store owner from Spruce Street. He was also Acresville’s very own Super Hero, and only a few Loopie’s in Acresville knew his secret, unfortunately for Air & George, they did not know this secret, but George had another reason for needing to involve Spoof in his plan to catch a criminal, and it had nothing to do with Super Heroes, but everything to do with Bubble gum!

“Hello!” grinned Spoof, as Air & George reached his shop. He was outside polishing his bubblegum machine.

“Mind if we borrow that?” asked George

“What, my bubble gum machine?” asked Spoof a little confused.

George and Air explained about the criminal that was loose in Acresville and about the missing biscuits. They showed him the ginger hair they had found.

“And George sneezed!” added Air.

“So you really think making a net out of chewed bubble gum will catch the criminal then?” asked Spoof with a chuckle.

George winked at Spoof and smiled.

“I surely hope so my friend.”

“Well, let’s get to chewing then!” said Spoof with a grin.

So Air, George & Spoof spent the rest of the afternoon chewing bubble gum and weaving it into a big net to catch the ginger Biscuit Thief!

Eventually the net was ready! And they set a trap for the thief in Teak Tree Park, just at the pathway that led up the side of Mount Peakmore.

“There that should do it.” said George.

“A criminal always comes back to the scene of the crime.” he explained.

So they lay in wait for Linky. They waited until the sun began to set behind the purple mountain, and then sure enough, their bubble gum net had caught something! They ran out from their hiding places just in time to see a ginger animal floating away in a giant bubble gum bubble! He was dressed from head to toe in a shiny black leather cat suit. Holding one of Air’s biscuits in his hand! But it wasn’t Linky!

Air tried to catch the bubble, but it was too high in the sky and floated high above the mountain! George shook his fist at the thief!

‘Who are you?” he called.

“I’m the cat burrrgalarrrr.” purred the smiling cat. And with that he floated away.

“What do we do now?” asked Air.

“We have to apologize to Linky.” said George regretfully.

“And the thief?” asked Air.

“That cat!” said George shaking his head.

“He’s beaten us I’m afraid. We’ll just have to be ready for him next time!”

“But we don’t even know when he will strike!” protested Air.

“That’s part of the fun of being a detective.” smiled George, as he slung his arm around Air’s shoulders.  Then the two of them walked off to Crumpet’s Bakery to get something to eat.

That’s when Spoof stepped out of his hiding place, except he wasn’t dressed as Spoof anymore. This time he had his Flame disguise on.

“I’ll catch that cat!” he whispered.

[To be continued….]