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Hi Brodie

I have just read all about your adventures from your journal which was given to me for my 55th Birthday!!   Could you please hurry along with your future adventures.   I realise that you will be busy as you are getting on towards burns night   If you are ever in the Glasgow area and you do not wish to be addressed you are more than welcome to hide in a rowan tree I know in Kelvingrove Park which overlooks the Snaffle Bit Bar where you are toasted at regular intervals.   I will be good, 

Lots of love

Andrea, Glasgow

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Hi Andrea

Glad you enjoyed my first adventure - and a very happy birthday to you!  Did you do anything different?  We normally feast on thistles and dandelion and the whole community does the haggis dance.  It's such fun.  My second adventure is well on its way and should be ready early next year.  Erin just can't believe how much trouble I have caused, but she's doing her best to help me sort it all out.  Me - toasted, at Snaffle Bit Bar?  Jings McCrackerty!  That sounds too hot for comfort - maybe I'll ... er ... ehm ... gulp ...

(Sorry - Brodie's just taken off - a wee bit scared of being toasted.  He'll be back though - nothing keeps him away for long.) 

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Hi Brodie

Is your book suitable for me?  I'm 11 years old and also called Brodie.

Brodie, Portlethan, Aberdeen

Hi Brodie

Gee, that feels really weird calling someone else Brodie.  Where I come from, nobody has the same name.  Cool name - don't you think?  If you like adventure and fun, then the book will definitely be suitable for you - it's a fun-tastic adventure!

Thanks for contacting me.

Brodie

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Dear Brodie

I am nearly 50 years old.  Until now no-one believed me that a haggis had three legs.

Loraine, Morriston, Wales

Dear Loraine

Yep - three legs is what we haggises have.  When Erin first saw me, she thought that I had hurt one leg and that I should have had four.  As if !!  I don't know how animals cope with four legs - surely one must get in the way.  And you people only have two legs - how do you stop from falling over?

Keep smiling

Brodie

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Dear Brodie

Have you ever ridden a bike and what is your favourite game on a play station or game cube and do you like Pokemon?  How old are you and is Angus McMail there with you?  Who is Booger?  

Leanne, Inverness

Hi again Leanne

No, I haven't ridden a bike - I've got three legs so I think that I would get into some real difficulty if I tried.  We can't even climb trees.  I haven't played the Play Station or Game Cube.  My eyes go cross-eyed when I look at them and I feel really sick.  Erin is reading to me at the moment - Harry Potter.  It is really good.  And she plays music to me.  I'm learning your ways, but I do get confused with it all.  There is so much to remember!

I'm ten years old - that makes me really grown up, doesn't it?  Angus McMail isn't here with me - I'm the only one who has come back to the Highlands - and what a lot of trouble I've caused!!  Booger is a really mean guardian tree spirit in the forest of fir-trees just over the back from Erin's house.  He's a real meanie and hates anyone being in his forest.  He's covered in moss and fir-tree leaves and his arms extend really long and if they wrap around anyone then they are enslaved to him forever.  Believe me, you won't want to be friends with him.  Erin is going to draw a picture of him and put it on the website soon.

School's out for summer now - so you have a good holiday.  Make sure you enter the competition and send in your picture to me.

Brodie

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Brodie

What is your favourite colour. My favourite colour is purple and Aaron's favourite colour is pink.

Tara and Aaron

Hi Tara and Aaron

My favouritist colour is definitely orange - it's a great colour.  My next favourite colour is purple - the same purple on thistles.  

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Hi Brodie

What is your favourite programme?

Charlie, Inverness

Hi Charlie

Hmmmm ... this is difficult.  I have hardly seen a television because we don't have them in Dunroamin.  We don't have that thing called electricity either - you have such a strange life here.  Erin has a television in her bedroom and when I'm at her place, I watch it a little.  But I get very confused and don't really understand it.  I've seen a little of the Simpsons - Erin thinks this is a cool programme.  I don't like the cookery programmes - they were cooking haggis on the one I saw - jings mccrackerty!!  I like the music programmes - you know, those programmes on Sky TV.  I really really like the song called 'Push the Button' by the Sugarbabes.  I've tried singing it myself and Erin thinks that it sounds really funny and she cracks up when I try dancing like them and fall over onto my back.  You people have really strange ways, but I'm getting used to them ... I think.

Cheerie bye

Brodie 

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Brodie

Do you have any pets?

Emily, Inverness

Hi Emily

I don't have any pets.  Erin said that some people would like to keep me as a pet.  I wouldn't mind staying with Erin because she's so cool.  But, it's too dangerous for me.  I have to stay in the hillsides of Dunroamin.

Brodie

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Brodie,

What's your favourite film and why do trees keep you safe?

Ross, Inverness

Hi Ross

What are films?  I don't think I've ever seen one.  Trees ... well, all haggises are very superstitious and they believe that the rowan tree has kept evil and danger away from them.  They believe that it is their Silent Protector.  You have to read my story to find out why they they believe that rowan trees keep them safe and what Brodie finds out about the Silent Protector.  I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read the story yet.

Stay safe,

Brodie

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Hi Brodie

What colour are your eyes and what are your favourite games?

Is a Kelpie a loch ness monster and how old is a Kelpie?

Coral and Leah, Inverness

Hi Coral and Leah

My eyes are crystal-blue.  When we get older - much older - our eyes turn a misty grey.  Kyla's eyes are a beautiful sun-golden colour ... <sigh>.

I love playing games.  We play leap-haggis (it's a bit like your game when you play leap-frog) and we also play haggis bulldogs.  It can sometimes be a bit sore when we all charge at one another to break the wall of haggises on the other  team, but it's good fun.  I also like to play hide and seek in the heather with Macca McRoberts and some of my other friends.  We don't often play games with Vanora McTavish because she's really bossy, but Kyla is allowed to play - she's cool.

What games do you like playing?

Oh dear, I don't like talking about the Kelpie.  No, he isn't the Loch Ness Monster - she's really nice.  The Kelpie is a really scary, horrible withered old man who can turn into a very strong horse.  He guards Darmaeddie Loch and if anyone goes into it, he changes into a horse and drowns them.  He's got really wrinkly, black skin and clumps of black hair on it.  He has merciless, black eyes that turn red when he's really angry.  When he turns into a horse, his mane is made of black, rotting seaweed.  I don't really know how old he is ... really old by the looks of it - I mean hundreds of years!

I hope this helps to answer your questions - keep in contact.  

Brodie

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Hi Brodie

Can we ask you a question?  What is your favourite food?

Tara, Inverness, Scotland

Dear Tara

My favourite food is thistle.  I've got a second favourite food that I discovered when I went to the Highlands - Walkers' chocolate chip cookies!!  They are so yummy.  What's your favourite food?  (Tara replied "Macaroni Cheese".)

Keep smiling

Brodie

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Hi Brodie

Just wanted to say that I loved your first adventure.  I was so worried about you.  Do you eat Easter eggs?  Do you like chocolate?  I love chocolate and I've eaten far too much, but it's good.

Can't wait for the next adventure.

Catriona, Scotland

Hi Catriona

What a lovely name!  Erin has tried to explain what Easter eggs are.  I'm struggling to understand it.  What is it about Easter that you most like?  What is Easter all about?  I've had some chocolate from Erin and it's awesome.

Keep eating chocolate, but not too much because it may give you bad teeth and spots.  I feel sick now, but Erin said that I shouldn't have eaten the packaging.

Brodie

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Hi Brodie

Just wanted to know what your views were on vegetarian haggis (which can't really be called haggis) being served at Rabbie Burns Day dinners.

Thanks.

Jemma, Scotland

Hi Jemma

Do you know I went to a Rabbie Burns Supper at the Urquhart Castle in my first adventure?  It was full of lots of haggis and noise and vegetarian haggis too.  When Ritchie McTouey addressed the haggis I just had to get out of there and hide from that haggis hunting butcher Harold Gunn.  He is  really creepy.  The thought of anyone eating anything called a haggis just frightens me in case it's me next!  Sorry, can't stay to chat - have to hide, I think the haggis bashers are after me ... again!

Love Brodie

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Dear Brodie

I wish I could meet you.  I want to see what Dunroamin and Drumdrui are like.  Next time you see the Kelpie, make sure you kick his butt!  I don't like him.  The boglouts are cool.  

John, Scotland (aged 10)

Hi John

I wish I could meet you.  Erin's so nice to me and I think you would be too.  Dunroamin and Drumdrui are just fantastic - but you could never see it for real - it's too dangerous for us.  I haven't see the Kelpie again, but I'll be sure to kick some butt.  Erin's helping me fight the boglouts.

Stay cool.

Brodie

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Dear Brodie

Have finished the book and really enjoyed it!  In fact I think I will read it again to absorb more of the atmosphere of Brodie's fascinating world!  This is my first venture into reading a "children's" book since reading to my daughter around thirty years ago and am amazed at how I got into it.  Escapism I think it is called; suits me.  Roll on the next one!

Ann, Caithness, Scotland (age 55)

Dear Ann

I think your world is fascinating.

Love Brodie

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What a little Imp Brodie is.  Love Brodie's highly exciting trip through the real world, only for him to leave me wondering what in the world would befall him next.  I can't wait to find out.  Let me know when to expect the rest of his story.

Bobbie, Florida, USA (age 75)

Dear Bobbie

Wow, fans in America - Erin said that's really far away.  I'm a haggis, not an imp.  Have you ever met an imp?  I haven't.  Erin said that my next book will be out later on this year.  

Love Brodie

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Hi there Brodie,

I have only read the first chapter of your story and I am already hooked!  The descriptions are truly wonderful; I like the bit where Jock is trying to dislodge the yellow butterfly from the end of his nose!  And the gentleness of Jock when he brushes the butterfly away; trying not to "damage its delicate frame".  I love the humour too; Angus whose only speed is to "go like the fur on his bottom was on fire"!  Looking forward to reading the rest of this wonderful book - I am in love with Brodie already.

Thank you,

Ann, Caithness

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Dear Brodie

What a wonderful website! So much to read and do. And lots of chances to be so much a part of it!  Well done!

Annie, Caithness

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Dear Brodie

I have just finished reading your story and I can't wait for the next one.  You get into so much trouble!  Gertruda McNorris and Booger are so mean.  Please take care of yourself. 

Rachel, Scotland (age 9)

Dear Rachel

I think that trouble just follows me around.  Gertruda McNorris is one dead-looking witch and Booger ... well, he's just mean.  Erin's looking after me.

Love Brodie

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