If we're having teenage Pagans, I want a proper village herbalist/witch in my re-imagined village too...

Such a character exists in the Merrily Watkins novels, CS - a crucial influence on young Jane and Lol (Merrily's daughter & folk-singing lover respectively), she is tragically killed early on, but her spirit lingers on by way of benign inspiration & occasional ghostly presence...

Would our herbalist / witch be enterprising enough to have a shop I wonder? Perhaps in this day and age she would, maybe it's called Caridwen's Cauldron and has a small museum attached - a Museum of Folklore indeed, a random curation of witches in bottles, witch bottles, mummified cats, corn dollies, wooden effigies, and all suchlike goodly things. I suspect this witch might be a folk singer and clog dancer too, although far too canny to end up being lured into WAV's canal boat. Besides, WAV's still in the stocks being roundly pelted with rotten Mangelwurzels for his word-crimes against the general enlightenment. Actually, looking over his published utterances, methinks he'd spend a good deal of his time there...

Whatever the case, I think our local dairy shop should be called Butter and Cheese and All and reflect the diverse wonders of all such produce the country over, and beyond, especially with respect of that Turkish Bagpipe cheese Jack was on about earlier. I imagine it being run next-door-but-one to Ye re-Imagined Village Music Shoppe in which one might find (for sale) examples of every musical instrument ever played on British Soil in the last 10,000 years.

And yes, Spleen, you can be The Construction Worker, but only if Pip is the Red Indian, and CS in The Biker.