Introducing Flo

How many creatures, human or otherwise, are in the photo? Flo’s there, of course, but we can also see two separate legs and one hand, so that could be three different people. Oh yes, and there’s a horse’s head, too, so that makes five.

Sometimes Flo gets teased for being slow, but it’s not that she’s slow, it’s that she keeps stopping to snack, which often makes her late.

Introducing Jasper

Jasper is a born leader who takes the whole gang to where they need to go – and a lot of times to where they really shouldn’t go. They don’t mind that Jasper leads them into trouble so often because they all know that if he didn’t, then they’d all get into trouble on their own and have no one to lead them out of it. 

Jasper is especially fond of grass, but he knows his gang prefers fancier treats so he doesn’t take them to empty meadows, he takes them to popular picnic spots where he can eat grass while they make nuisances of themselves in and around all the picnic baskets.

Introducing Jazz

Like most of the gang, Jazz has a lazy streak, but if you find Jazz lazing about, say upside down on the couch when he’s really not supposed to be in the house at all, he will tell you he was practising his special skill and just happened to doze off.

It’s hard to argue with that because Jazz’s special skill is to do with upside-down-ness … and running water. It’s a useful skill particularly to the unicorn (but of course that’s part of the secret that we’re not allowed to talk about yet) so Jazz is usually allowed to lounge about as long as he’s upside down.

Introducing Polo

Polo might be small but he’s speedy and he turns tight corners like you wouldn’t believe. Polo’s agility is very useful when it comes to keeping things secret, and he certainly has a big secret.

He’s another of the gang that knows everything there is to know about the secret of the unicorn. If you happened to be a pony watching through a window when Polo went by, all you would see would be a blur.

Polo’s problem is that he fidgets, especially if he scents mints in the air. There are times when Snowy has had to get extremely firm with Polo.

Jack-the-horse gets things underway

My name is Jack and I’m the horse in Horse of a Different Colour, but who knows if I will be the horse in Horse of the Same Colour?

I have no idea. And even though the new book is underway, don’t hold your breath. Melodie wrote 500 words today, then crossed them all out again. ‘At least it’s underway,’ she told me. Between you and me, I’m not so sure.

Meanwhile, I'm going to have a word with my friend Professor Hans Von Puppet who you might have met in a previous blog, and get him to introduce the cast of the new book. I can't possibly introduce them all myself. Have you ever tried typing with hooves?

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