A Morning Laugh Chases Away Woes

Previously

…The Great Village Bake-Off. He was still going. He might not have Bartholomew in the traditional sense, but he had him back. And he had a story. A ridiculous, wonderful, hedgehog-infused story. He looked at the hedgehogs, then at Bartholomew, then back at the hedgehogs. A new recipe, wild and unexpected, began to form in his flour-dusted brain. The Hedgehogs’ Surprise. It wouldn’t be traditional, not by a long shot. But Barnaby Buttercup, for the first time that morning, felt truly, deliciously, ready.