The Concept
Down at the bottom of a very pretty valley, there's a magical place called Summerton Mill. But the stream that used to flow from the river to drive the waterwheel is overgrown, and the old millstones stopped grinding corn years ago. So there it stands, Summerton Mill, still beautiful in its tumbledown state - a home to the wild animals, the birds and the plants.
But when it rains up on the hills, the river level starts to rise in the valley. The river spills over into the overgrown millrace and, very slowly, the old waterwheel starts to turn. And when the waterwheel turns at Summerton Mill, a little bit of magic takes place...
and, for a little while, everything goes back to how it used to be...
at this point, the Summerton Mill characters appear, and a story takes place
and then...
when the oocuck in the oocuck sundial sings oocuck twice, the story concludes...
And as the water levels drop back down, the big old waterwheel slows and, eventually, stops. And Summerton Mill, still beautiful in its tumbledown state, goes back to being a home, just to the wild animals, the birds and the plants.
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